102 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Prarz 120. Delphinium altissimum, Wall. 1, part of infractescence of var. phallutensis; 2, (on the right) nectariferons 
taminode of the same ; 3, pistil of var. nipalensis; 4, the same of var. phallutensis ; 5, ditto of subspecies drepanocen- 
rum; 6—9 staminodes; 6, of var. phallutensis; 7—9, of D. drepanocentrum ; 10—13, refer to D. drepanocentrum ; 10, 
lateral sepal ; 11, posterior sepal, 12, (2 on the left) nectariferous staminode; 13, stamen; 14, ripe follicle of var. phallutensis 
Prate 121, fig. 11. Seed of Delphinium altiesimum WalL 
DELPHINIUM STAPELIOSMUM, P. Brühl, 
( D. altissimum, Н. f. et T. in the Flora of Br. India as 10 the Khasian specimems.) 
Stem erect (40—) 70—150 cm. high, branched, beset with stiff retrorse hairs 
especially upwards; leaves very pale below, reniform or suborbicular, cordate, more or less 
deeply tripartite, lateral segments trapezoidal unequally bilobed, all divisions very coarsely 
serrate; inflorescence a very lax large subracemose panicle; peduncles suberect, lower 
ones up to 10 cm, long; bracteoles nearly always alternate, inserted at varying heights; 
flowers fetid; sepals deep-blue or purple; sepaline spur subulate, 1—5 mm. longer than 
the lamina; anterior staminodes much shorter than the sepals, very dark-blue, ovate, bifid 
or subbilobed, yellow-bearded ; ovaries densely hairy; follicles 3, cylindric, 13—20 mm. 
long ; seeds obpyramidate, subtriangular in cross-section, conspicuously winged along the 
edges, puckered on the sides, epidermal cells very large and irregular. 
Flowers in September and October. 
Distribution: Khasia; Shan Hills. 
From the true D. altissimum of Wallich the present species differs by its inflorescences, which 
in D. altissimum is much more distinctly racemose ; by the bluish-black (not light-purple) anterior stami- 
nodes, its fetid flowers, and especially by its seeds (compare plate 121, figs. 10 a, 5, c, d with figs. 
а, & o). 
Var. a. KHASIANA, P. B.; leaves more or less deeply palmatipartite, coarsely serrate.— Khasia 
5-6,000” (Herb. Calc. !). 
Var. В. suantca, P. B.; leaves 5-lobed scarcely to the middle, coarsely dentato-crenate ; inflores- 
сепсе an exceedingly large panicle; flowers often more distinctly racemose.—Shan 
Hills, 4— 5,000 (Collett. ! ). 
Pramg 121. Delphinium stapeliosmum, P. Brühl. 1, an exceptionally small-sized flowering plant from Khasia ; 
2. extremity of axis with head of follicles, from a tall specimen, Khasia ; 3, part of upper lateral branch of var. 
shanica, Shan Hills; 4, nectariferous staminode ; 5, petaloid staminode; 6, basal portion of petaloid staminode; 7, 
stamen ; 8, gynecium; 9, stigmatose part of style; 10, seed of D. stapeliosmum : (a) dorsal, (5) ventral aspect, 
(е) cross-section through upper half, (d) epidermis; 11, seed of D. altissimum, Wall., Phuliut: (a) dorsal aspect, 
(b) cross-section; 12, seed of D cheilanthum, subspecies schizophyllum, China Hill, Garhwal. 
DELPHINIUM DENSIFLORUM, Duthie. 
(Plants of Kumaon No. 2677; D. Brunonianum, var. densa, Maxim. in Flora Tangutica.) 
| А perennial, middle-sized herb. Rhizome descending, subcylindric, 9—5 mm. thick. 
Stem erect, strict, simple or scarcely branched, subcylindric, striated, fistulose, 30— 
50 em. high, 4-10 mm. thick near the base, glabrescent below, upwards beset with 
white partly crisp retrorse hairs partly villose with longer spreading hairs often mixed with 
a yellow glandular hairs. Lower leaves very long-petioled ; petioles gradually dilated near 
E — 7 the base, 5—18 cm. long, somewhat hairy; lamina reniform, at the base cordate, 3-partite 
S _ №0 3, 3:506 сш. long, 6—10 cm. broad, beneath paler, puberulous ог subvillous; middle 
