DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 97 
a right angle, bilobed or subentire at the apex; spur straight or curved, subnate. 
Petaloid staminodes nearly as long as the sepals, sometimes 3 mm. shorter; lamina 
asymmetrically ovate, bifid to about the middle, on the upper surface near the base 
bearded with white hairs, often subciliate, glabrous or little hairy on the back; claw 
linear, a little shorter than the lamina, papillose at the edges. Stamens 40-50, about 
half as long as the sepals, exterior ones a little longer; filaments moderately dilated near 
the base, glabrous; anthers subrotund. Pistils 3, erect, 3—4 mm. long; ovaries ovate- 
oblong, densely and minutely pubescent; style filiform, nearly half as long as the ovary, 
glabrous upwards, stigma shortly bilobed.  Follicles 3, оп erect or patulous pedicels, 
chartaceous, ovoid-cylindric, reticulate, 10—12 mm. long, beset with stiffish straigkt or 
more commonly with crisp minute hairs, persistent style 1—2 tbe length of the follicle. 
Seeds numerous, obpyramidate, 3—4-sided, dorsal side broader and slightly curved, covered 
with scariose free or slightly connate subadpressed scales, about 15 mm. long. 
Flowers from June to September. 
Kashmir (Herb. Fale.!); Sind valley (Stoliczka! Clarke 7); Kishenganga valley near Gurais 
(Duthie !); Liddar valley 8—9,000^ (Duthie !); Pangi (Stolicska!) ; Kunawar (Royle !); Bashahr (Lace 1). 
Delphinium incanum is the Himalayan development of the polymorphous £. hybridum; especially close 
is the affinity between a rather small-flowered form from Kunäwar with purplish-blue sepals and petaloid 
staminodes as long as, or longer than the lateral sepals, and the laxer racemose variety of D. punicsum 
from the Caucasus. The middle cauline leaves of |. incanum are, however, always subsessile, the sheaths 
of the petioles much less conspicuous, the sepals are broad-elliptio instead of elliptie-oblong and usually 
larger, and the petaloid staminodes are commonly distinctly shorter (1—3 mm.) than the lateral sepals. 
Prate 119. Delphinium incanum, Royle. 1, upper part of flowering plant; 2, basal leaf; 3, posterior sepals, (a) 
Kashmir, (6) Kunawar; 4, lateral sepal; 6, anterior sepal; 6, nectariferous staminode; 7, petaloid staminode ; 8, stamen ; 
9, (a) pedicel with carpels, (5) pistil, (е) hair; 10, mature carpel Hairs similar to 9 (c) occur on the floral axis 
of D. hybridum, D. cyphoplectrum, D. dasycaulon, D. grandiflorum, D. speciosum, and others. 
DELPHINIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Linn. 
(Delphinium grandiflorum, Linn.; D. ceruleum, Jacquem; Р. longipes, Franchet — D 
Davidi, Franchet; D. Kumaonense, E. lluth). 
Perennial; rhizome subcylindrie; flowering stem 7—60 em. high; leaves trisect or 
deeply tripartite, lateral segments 2 to 3-partite, divisions variously cleft and incised, 
lacinulae linear or linear-lanceolate or oblong, -more rarely obovate or obovate-oblong ; 
inflorescence rarely one-flowered, usually several- to many-flowered, paniculate or paniculate- 
corymbose; bracteoles usually above the middle of the puberulous or villose pedicles ; 
sepals spreading, 12—15 mm. long, blue, more rarely purple, white, or greenish ; sepaline 
spur slender conical; staminodes shorter than the sepals; lamina of anterior staminodes 
blue or purple, orbicular, obovate or obovate-oblong, subentire, emarginate, to bilobed 
beyond the middle; pistils 8—9; follicles 12—18 mm. long; seeds obpyramidal or oblong, 
3—4-sided, testa more or less loose, folded into wings along the edges and more or less 
puckered on the sides. | 
Flowers about July and August. 
Distribution: Siberia, China, Himalaya. 
Delphinium grandiflorum, (incl. D. ceruleum,) is represented by numerous specimens in the herbaria 
of Calcutta and Saharanpur, not only from Kumaon, Sikkim, and Chumbi, but also from Siberia and 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Garp. Cac., Vor. V. 
