DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. lil 
forming a simple or compound, rather dense raceme; pedicels slender, spreading, 
inarcuate, finally recurved at tip; sepals dark-blue; helmet usually much vaulted; spur of 
nectaries broadly conical, hooked, capitate, glabrous; ovaries densely hirsute.—Sikkim : 
Thunku, 12,000” (King’s collectors?) ; Lachung valley, 12,000’ (Gammie 1). 
ат. т. LANCEIFIDA, Р. В.; stem glabrescent below, densely hirsute upwards; leaves 
reniform, sub-5-partite, divisions rather sparsely pinnatifid, laciniw broad-lanceolate, 
entire or scarcely incised; inflorescence short, racemose, rather dense ; sepals pale-blue ; 
helmet semicircularly vaulted; ovaries densely hirsute.—Kumaon: in the Ralem valley 
(Duthie 1). 
Var. 0. wacintara, P. B.; stem upwards puberulous or pubescent; leaves nearly isodiametrie 
trisect, Isteral segments deeply bipartite, all divisions duplicate-pinnatifid beyond the 
middle; laeinie and lacinule lanceolate-linear or linear acute or acuminate; inflores- 
cence racemose, rather dense; pedicels erect-patulous or ascending, rather slender, 
densely pubescent ; sepals dark-red (perhaps also blue); helmet semicircularly vaulted, beak 
usually conspicuous; spur of nectaries conical capitate and recurved at the tip, claw 
densely hairy; ovaries hirsute ; follicles cylindric, about 24 mm. long, minutely pubescent.— 
Garhwal: Massüri range (flowerless specimens); Kumaon: Ralem valley (Duthie 1) ; 
Sikkim: on the Sandakphü, 12,000’; in the To-ko-la and Cho-l& (King’s coliector's 1). 
To this variety appears to belong “ Caltha? Nirbisia " of Buchanan-Hamilton, Wali. 
Cat. 5721 D.—In habit, in form of leaves and in flowers, A. feroz laciniata closely approxi- 
mates A. Кизпевоўй Rchb., var. A typica, Regel (Reichenbach, Ill. Sp. Ac. Gen., 
tab. XXI; Regel, Ostsibirien, page 94), which has a wide distribution in Northern 
Asia; it differs from the latter by the pubescence of the floral axis pedicels and carpels, 
and by its conical, not dome-shaped, nectarial spur, which is hooked at its very tip. 
Var. u. FLAVIDIFLORA, P. B.; flowering stem 20—60 cm. high, 2—5 mm. thick, upwardt 
puberulous or villose-pubescent ; leaves reniform, 2°5—6 cm. broad, 5-partite, middle 
and intermediate divisions pinnately cleft and serrate, laciniæ oblong as ovate, serratures 
subacute; inflorescence 2—many-flowered, racemose as racemose-paniculate; pedicels erect 
or patulous, thick or slender; sepals pale yellow or greenish-yellow; helmet semicircular; 
spur of nectaries conical, capitate, much hooked, claw as well as the filaments hairy ; 
ovaries pubescent ; follicles 14—24 mm. long, more or less hairy—Chumbi: at Me-rik- 
là and Tu-key-kung (King’s collectors !). 
Var. к. сүмвіғокмів, Р. В.; stem quite simple, glabrescent downwards, densely pubescens 
on the floral axis; leaves small (2—6 cm. broad), subisodiametric, deeply tripartite, 
lateral segments unequally but less deeply bipartite, divisions pinnately cleft and incised, 
lacinule rather acute; inflorescence 5—9- flowered, racemose, lax; sepals blue; helmet 
navicular; spur of nectaries conical, hooked, tip globose.—Sikkim: near Tha-pa, 13,000”. 
(King’s collectosr !). 
Var. № wavicutaris, P. В.; stem glabrescent below; floral axis and pedicels, pubescent, 
9—3 mm. thick near base; leaves small (about 3 cm. broad), subreniform, deeply 3- 
partite, lateral segments deeply 2-lobed, all divisions 2—3-lobed, laciniw sparsely 
incised, lacinule blunt; inflorescence lax, rather few-flowered ; pedicels erect, rather 
slender; sepals reddish blue; helmet navieular; spur of nectaries globose, shorter than 
the obovate emarginate labellum.—Chumbi: near Kung-met. 
Subspecies ІП. parmatum, (Don pro ер); stem simple below; upwards usually branched; leaves 
reniform, rarely subisodiametric; flowers not musky; sepals greenish-blue, or partly white, partly 
blue; nectaries slightly recurved; spur club-shaped more rarely subglobose, labellum 3—5 times shorter, 
emarginate ; follicles 25—35 mm. long, glabrous or more rarely pubescent ; seeds narrow-obpyramidate, 
testa black, epidermal wrinkles narrow.— Garhwal (Herb. Fale. №. 68/); Nipal (Wall. Cat. 4723 47); 
Sikkim: (Hook ЈИ.!); on Tongla (Kurs, Anderson !), Phullalong (Clarke 1), Phullut (T. Thomson 1), 
Na-tong (Pantling!); Phari: near бар (King’s Collectors 1). 
Axx Roy. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor. V. 
