94 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
lacinie linear, often ensiform rarely abbreviated, entire or again incised, ultimate енна 
callose-apieulate; lower cauline leaves shorter petioled, petioles га cm. ong and shea ® 
ing for a shorter distance, blade 3—5-sect, segments linear, entire or sparsely pinnately 
incised, middle опе 1:5--4 ст. long, 1-—2 mm. broad. Inflorescence racemose or racemose- 
paniculate, 10—25 cm. long, lax. Pedicels terete, spreading, straight or scarcely arcuate, 
4—6 mm, long, somewhat thickened upwards. Bracts at the base of the pedicels, linear 
or sublanceolate, acute, like the bracteoles glabrous or hirsute, 4 —7 mm. long. Brac- 
teoles linear, basal, lanceolate-linear, about 2 mm. long. Torus depressed, glabrous 
or hirsute. Sepals bluish, spreading, all glabrous, or the posterior and anterior ones 
woolly, the lateral ones hairy along the middle on the outer surface ; lamina of 
posterior sepal elliptic. obtuse, 7—12 mm. long, spur saccate or subcapitate at the apex, 
straight or -moderately incurved, horizontal or somewhat ascendent, longer or slightly 
shorter than the pedicel, 7—10 mm. long, near the apex 15--2 mm. thick ; 
lateral sepals  oblong-obovate, rounded, entire or subcrenate; anterior ones elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse, 8—12 mm. long. Lamina of nectariferous staminodes with sigmatoid 
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anterior margin, at the tip shortly bilobed, glabrous or slightly ciliate, 7—10 mm. 
long; spur open on the inner side to 3 or 4, glabrous or inside minutely hairy, below 
y straight or hooked tip. 
the open part more or less constricted, capitate at the nearl 
Anterior staminodes petaloid, lamina oblong, bilobed to about the middle 6—8 mm. 
long, villose or shortly hairy on the upper surface, dorsally glabrous or villose, lobes 
broad-linear, rounded or obtuse at the apex; claw linear, papillose, 4—6 mm. long, 
shorter than the lamina or equal to it. Stamens about 25, subequal; filaments dilated 
below, linear, about 5 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, nearly filiform near the 
tip; anthers orbicular. Pistils 3, erect; ovaries oblong ; glabrous or hairy, 2:5—3 mm. 
long; styles nearly straight, stigmatose at the apex, 1—1°5 mm. long, glabrous. 
Flowers in June and July. 
Var. a. PSEUDOVESTITA P. B.; stem, pedicels, sepals velvety with spreading hairs, lacinia of 
leaves elongate. Beluchistan (Stocks.); Panjab, near Hassan Abdal (Aitchison /), and 
in other localities, 
Var. 8. Аттсніѕомі, Boiss.: stem, pedicels, sepals velvety ; lacinie of basal leaves more or less 
abbreviated. Kurrum Valle y, near Alikhel (Але, 1). 
Var. y. Vıcaryı P. J.; quite glabrous; lacini, of basal leaves elongate. Panjab, near Rawal 
Pindi (Vicary) ; near Hassan Abdal (Aitchison 1) ; Afghanistan (Griffith /). 
Ртлте 116. Delphinium uncinatum, Н. fil. and Th. 1, var. Vicaryi; 2, inflorescence of var. pseudovestita ; 8, 
young plant of var. Aitchisoni; 4, basal leaf of var. а; floral details; 5-7 of var. а; 8, of var. y; 9, of var. 
B; 10, pedicels : (a) and (d) pseudovestita, (8) Aitchisoni, (е) Vicaryi, (e) D. quercetorum, (f) D. Cyphoplectrum 
atenophyllum, (g) D. Cyphoylectrum microphyllum ; 11, nectariferous Staminodes of (a) D. Cyphoplectrum stenophyllum, 
(2) D. Cyphoplectrum typicum, (c) D. quercetorum ; 13, seed of D. uncinatum, var. а. 
DELPHINIUM SANICULZPOLIUM, Boiss, 
Rhizome thick, fusiform, subtuberous or irregularly stout cylindric; stem erect, flex- 
uose, branched or simple; petioles sheathing; basal leaves subisodiametric, 2°5—4 cm. 
| long, trisect or deeply tripartite with the lateral segments less deeply bipartite, divi- 
sions cuneate pinnately cleft and incised, cauline leaves more distinctly tripartite; 
inflorescence racemose, simple or compound, racemes lax or rather dense; bracteoles 
