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ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. · 
rounded at the apex and attenuated into the persistent style, reticulately veined, more or less hairy. 
Seeds obpyramidal, three-sided, about 2 mm. long; testa black; wrinkles conspicuously scariose. 
This is a species of the second rank; it is, however, closely allied to the group of forms included 
in subspecies 11, but somewhat more distantly related to A. palmatum. 
Subspecies II. FEROX PROPRIUM (A. feroz, Wall); stems simple below, branched or simple 
upwards; leaves mostly suborbicular or ovate, more rarely reniform; flowers not musky; sepals variously 
coloured; helmet vaulted, rarely navicular; nectaries slightly or distinctly recurved upwards, often hairy: 
spur usually conical with more or less recurved capitate apex, rarely cylindrical and obscurely capitate 
or subglobose; labellum oblong or spatulute, 3-- the length of the spur, emarginate or bilobed ; follicles 
13—26 mm. long; seeds broadly obpyramidal, with broad scariose transverse wrinkles. 
The following varieties can at present be distinguished :— 
Var. a. 
Var. В. 
Var. у. 
Var. 8. 
spicata, P. B.; floral axis and pedicels subtomentose with spreading hairs; leaves 
isodiametric or broadly ovate, sometimes reniform, 5-partite, divisions pinnately cleft and 
incised; flowers 20—35, in an elongated, mostly simple, narrow raceme (inflorescence 
rarely subcorymbose) ; pedicels strictly erect; spur of nectaries conical, capitate, recurved; 
follic'es short-cylindric, densely hirsute when young.—Garhwal (Fak.!); Nipal (Scully ) ; 
Sikkim, on Sandakphu, Phullut, Phullalong, Tonglu (Kurz, Keng, Т. Thomson, С. В. 
Clarke!) ; 8. Е. Tibet (King's Collectors 1). 
LAXIFLORA, P. B.; floral axis and pedicels subtomentose; leaves broadly ovate to 
broad-reniform, deeply tripartite, lateral segments unequally bipartite, divisions cleft and 
incised, laciniz lanceolate; flowers 2 or moderately numerous, disposed in а very lax 
raceme or panicle; pedicels long, stout and spreading; spur of nectaries conical, hooked at 
the tip; follicles as in a.—Sikkim: Sandakphu (Gamble /) ; В. E. Tibet ‘King’s Collectors 1). 
HETEROPHYLLOIDES, P. B.; floral axis densely pubescent; cauline leaves ovate-cordate, 
8—10 ст. long, 6—7 ст. broad, sub-3-partite, middle division 5—6 сш. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, nearly twice as long as the lateral ones, more or less pinnatifid and serrate: 
infloresceuce many-flowered, racemose-paniculate, terminal raceme elongate; floral leaves 
r to the cauline ones; helmet erect, high; nectaries with conical capitate hooked 
spur and dens Ју hairy claw ; follicles somewhat spreading, when young hirsute. —Sikkim : 
on Singalela and Phullalong (Clarke). 
ATROX, Wali., floral axis densely pubescent; leaves папу isodiametric, 5-partite, 
divisions pinnatifid and serrate-incised, rarely incised-crenate; flowers usually dark-blue, 
іп а rather short, somewhat 4 пзе, 10—15-flowered raceme; pedicels erect-patulous; 
helmet much vaulted, not gaping; spur of песбагу conical, capitate, recurved; follicles 
cylindric, 18—24 mm. long, pubescent. 
. С 
Subror. аа. lacinule acute: (ИГай. cat. 4721 ОГ); Garhwal, above Bhowani 13—14,000* (Duthie 7) 
Kumaon (Wali. cat. 47210 7), in the Ralem valley (stem sometimes reddish, Dethie /); 
Sikkim (T.T. 
Subvar. ВВ. lacinulæ subobtuse: Nipal, on Nampa Gadh 12—13,000’ (Рлиће /), Gosain Than 
Var. е. 
"Ра. c 
(Wall. cat. 4721 В’). 
ікссахтна, Р. В; stem 30—80 ст. high, rather thin, 3—4 mm. near base, glabres- 
cent below, densely pubescent with soft crisped hairs upward; leaves thin, rather small, 
broad-ovate to subrenifurm, deeply 3-partite, lateral divisions less deeply bipartite, 
partitions often conspicuously pinnatifid and incised, lacinule subobtuse apiculate; in- 
florescence a 4—10-flowered, usually lax raceme; pedicels subtomentose, erect, sl nder; 
tase white, or white and bue or greenish-blue; helmet vaulted, rarely subnavicular.— 
Jongri, Ling-tü, Jongri-Pokri, Ten-chang (King’s collectors !). 
CRASSICAULIS, P. В.; stem 1—15 m. high. densely pubescent with fine crisp hair, more 
rarely velvety with rather coarse spreading hairs, 1— 1:5 cm. thick near base; leaves 
frm, nearly isodiametric, tripartite, divisions } innatifid, lacinise broadly-oblong, serrate от 
crenate-serrute, nerves — below; flowers numercus (20—30 in terminal raceme), 
