DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 99 
many-flowered ; bracteoles alternate, small, linear, remote from flower; sepals villous near 
the base, azure, 19—15 mm. long, lamina of anterior staminodes suborbicular, entire 
or emarginate, yellow-bearded ; carpels 5.—N.-W. Himalaya. 
Far. X. BHOTANICA, P. В.; stem 15—50 сш. high, 15—5 mm. thick near base; laciniæ 
linear, acute, or subacute, 5—20 mm. long, 1—2 mm. broad ; inflorescence ample, pani- 
culate-subcorymbose, many-flowered ; bracteoles alternate, small, linear, remote from flower ; 
sepals villous near the base, 16—25 mm. long, blue or purple; lamina of anterior 
'staminodes suborbieular or rounded-subquadrate, more rarely obovate-oblong, entire, 
emarginate, orshortly bilobed, yellow-bearded ; earpels 5.—Bhatan, near Ta-la-ny ; Chumbi 
and Phari (King’s collectors /). 
Var. р. Paradoxa, P. В.; flowering plant 15—20 сш. high; leaves more or less crowded 
hear the base, trisect, segments variously cleft, lacini» abbreviated lanceolate, lacinule 
oblong or cuneate-obovate 1:5—8 mm. long, 1—2 mm. broad, usually rather obtuse ; 
flowers 1—3; peduncles 8—12 сш. long, ebracteate or bibracteate, bracts oblong-lanceo- 
late entire or conform to the leaves; sepals subhirsute, outside yellowish green, inside 
white; lamina of anterior staminodes subelliptie, shortly bilobed, yellow-bearded ; carpels 
3; seeds blackish, narrow-winged.—Chumbi; Tah Tsong (King’s collecturs!). 
Var. v. OBTUSILOBA, Р. B.; flowering plant usually 6—15, rarely 80 cm. high; stem 
: branched from the very base; leaves rather crowded near base, much cut, densely pubes- 
cent; lacinule linear-oblong or oblong-obovate, very rarely linear, obtuse, rarely sub- 
acute; inflorescence subcorymbose, two to many-flowered, rarely flowers solita) y; bracteoles 
remote from flower, lanceolate or oblanceolate or sublinear; sepals densely villous near 
base, with yellow hairs, inside sky-blue or purple; lamina of anterior staminodes suborbi- 
cular, entire or emarginate, yellow-beard«d ; carpels 5.—Chumbi and Phiri: near Сар, 
Ting, Рат, Giagong, Cha-Rung-Ja (King’s collectors 1). 
Var. t. TSANGEXSIS, P. B.; small, branched herb; stem, peduncles, and azure sepals minutely 
and sparsely pubescent ; leaves subglabrous ; laciniæ of basal leaves abbreviated, of upper 
leaves linear; flowering branches slender; bracts 2, alternate, linear, more or less remote 
from flower, lower one often 1—2 cm. long; lamina of anterior staminodes suborbicular, 
 erenulate, yellow-bearded ; carpels 5.—Tibet, between northern frontier of Sikkim and 
Lhassa (King’s cullectors!). 
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Prate 118. Delphinium grandiflorum, Linn. 1, var. у tenuicaulis ; 2, var. у obtusiloba; 3, var. 0, (sangensis ; 
4, posterior and lateral sepal of var. Kumaonensis, Kumaon ; 5, the same of var. pubiflora Turcz., Baikal region ; 
6, petaloid staminodes (lateral petals): a. var. Linnaei, Yarkand ; b. var. obtusiloba Chumbi ; с. var, Linnaei, Siberia . 
d. var botanica, Рап; e. var. Kumaonensis, West Nipal; f. var, Potanini, Setshwan ; g. the same; h. var. setshwanesis, 
Setsshwan; i. var. tsangensis, S.-E. Tibet; К. var. tenuicaules, Sikkim; 1. var. paradora; 7 stamens; a. var. paradoxa; 
b. var. setwshanensis, с. var. tsangensis ; 4. var. Potanini; 8, gynoecium ; a. var. Kumaonensis ; b, var. bhotanica; с var. 
paradoza ; d. var. tsangensis ; 9, stigma of var. tsangensis ; 10 seeds ; a. var. paradora ; b. var. Linnaei с. var. báctanica ; 
1l upper part of pedical; a. var. bhotanica ; b, var. Kumaonensis ; с. var. Potanini ; d. var. typica; e. var. tsangensis. 
DELPHIMUM CHEILANTHUM, Linn., subsp. SCHIZOPHYLLUM, P. В, 
This plant was gathered by Col. Davidson on the China hill near Naini Tal It is here 
referred to in order to draw the attention of Indian botanists to this interesting form, which 
establishes another link between the flora of the Western Himalaya and that of Siberia. It is 
marked D. elatum on the label, and probably has not been specially noticed before, because field 
botanists have mistaken it for a furm of that species. The petaloid staminodes are, however, blue, 
and their lamina is suborbicular and emarginate, exactly as in D. giandiflorum and D. cheilanthum. 
From all the varieties of the former it differs by the shape and the mode of division of its leaves, 
` in which respects it agrees much more closely with D. cheilanthum. Whether it may ultimately prove 
