DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 113 
Nectariferous staminodes enclosed, erect, hammer-shaped, glabrous; claw 3—5 mm. long, 
conduplicate, straight, broader towards the base; spur 1:2--1:8 mm. long, capitate, forming 
an acute angle with the claw; labellum 25—8:5 mm. long, usually at right angles to 
the claw. Stamens about 20, outer ones 7—10 mm. long; filaments filorm above the 
middle, membranous-dilated below; anthers subglobose, about 1 mm. long.  Pistils 3, 
erect, 4—5'5 mm. long ; ovaries oblong-ovoid, densely hairy ; style subeylindrie, 1—1 the 
length of the ovary; stigma shortly bilobed. Follicles subdivergent, chartaceous, obovoid- 
subcylindric, crowned with a short style, 8—10 mm. long, 3—4 mm. broad near apex, 
hairy or glabrescent. Seeds about 5—6. 
PrarE 124. Aconitum luridum, H. f. and Th.—1, flowering plant ; 2, anterior; 3 lateral; 4 posterior sepal; 5, posterior 
вера! cut open and flattened out; 6, neciary; 7, stamens; 8, pistils; 9, upper part of style; 10, follicle; 11, seed. 
AcoNITUM GYMNANDRUM, Mazim. 
Rhizome fusiform, leaves bipinnatisect with the segments incised.serrate ; inflorescence 
racemose, more rarcly subcorymbose, many-flowered ; sepals long-clawed, leaving the stamens 
uncovered, posterior one subnavicular; nectaries with broad claw, a shortly-cylindrical obtuse 
spur and a very large, protruding, semi-circular, dentate labellum; follicles 5—8 ; seeds 
narrow obpyramidal three-sided with narrowly and sinuously plaited testa. 
Flowers in August. 
Phari: Kang-mà, 60 miles north of the town of Phari; Ting (King’s сой, 1); 
Tachienlu region (Pratt No. 496, 507 !); Kansu. ' 
Description, — Rhizome descending, fusiform or subcylindrical, 5—10 em. long, sometimes 
branched. Stem usually short or of medium size, straight or ascending, simple or branched 
from the very base, 5—80 (— 90) em. high, near the base 3—4 mm. thick, leafy, glabrous or 
more or less covered with white longish hairs, upwards often villous. Leaves more or less hairy, 
the infra-floral ones long-petioled, crowded or rather remote; lamina bipinnatisect, about 3 cm. 
long, yellowish-green on the lower surface; primary segments petiolulate, lowest pair sub- 
bipinnatisect, upper ones pinnatipartite with the divisions spreading, incised and serrate, 
serratures apiculate. Inflorescence racemose or racemose-paniculate or in smaller specimens 
subcorymbose; racemes usually elongate, lax or rather dense; floral leaves mostly short- 
petioled, upper ones subsessile, lower subsimilar to the infra-floral leaves, upper ones narrower 
and simpler; pedicels erect or slightly spreading, during flowering time shorter than the 
flowers, afterwards elongating, the lowest finally 3:5—5 сш. long, 1—1'5 mm. thick ; bracteoles 
near the base of the flower or somewhat remote, alternate or opposite, sessile or very shortly 
petioled, variously divided or undivided and linear. Sepals bluish-purple, long-clawed, sub- 
villous outside, deciduous; posterior one unguiculate-navicular, very shortly and obtusely 
rostrate, claw broad erect 9—11 mm. long, lamina more or less horizontal, about as long as 
the claw ; lateral sepals about 15 mm. long with unsymmetrical suborbicular lamina and the 
claw 6—7 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad ; anterior sepals spatulate, about 18 mm. long, lamina 
4—5 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, claw about З mm. broad near base. Nectariferous stami. 
nodes 2; claw nearly straight, flattened, broad-linear, hyaline at the edges, 12—13 шш, 
long, about 2:5 mm. broad; spur about 4 mm. long; labellum 5 mm. long, 9 mm. broad, 
dentate or crenate, reaching beyond the helmet. Stamens 40—50, unequal, 5—8, таш. long, 
persistent; filaments dilated below, coloured, ciliate; anthers subglobose, dark-blue.  Pistils 
5—8, mostly 8, erect, 4—5 mm. long; ovary ovoid-oblonz, more or less villous; stylo 
