190 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (April, 1908. 
dra’ (see fig. 2 above). They were seen to be diligently 
visited for foes (on 3-x-06) by a very handsome sulphur-belted 
Bombus. The commonest balsams are three yellow ones: J. asym- 
metrica, I. longipes and I. bicornuta (see figs. above). he 
first two are oblique in flower: they differ in the foliage, curl of 
the spur, and in the one having i spots on the side petals and 
red blotches on the spur, while the other has neither. The 
flowers are more numerous on I. a hie ae than on J. longzpes. 
They were visited by the bis Bombyliid fly ie flaviharta. 
mpatiens bicornuta has a bucket ending in a spur: in appear- 
it os a Cypripedium. Bombus funerarius was seen to 
vail its flower: 
ere is sa another Impatiens at Kalipokri and on Tonglu— 
Impatiens faleifera,—with an Onecdium-like flower, hae ¥; 
blotched with brown. Its spur is 22—25 mm. long. No visitors 
ere seen on it, but its flat flower is evidently suited fa the 
visits of Sphingid moths 
It is interesting to note how the coer of these Impatiens 
blique—are al 
emorrhoidalis visiting Scutellaria linearis in the Simla 
cite outside my limit at Simana on the Ghum and Jorpokri 
ridge am the little yellow Impatiens (J. trigonopteris) repre- 
sented in 
oe ‘possesses Bombus-flowers*; and I have seen many 
visits of bees to A. spicatum and some to A. aap The 
Aconite flowers are imperfectly protandrous, the style growing 
through the stamens, and the stamens bending at after 
dehiscing. Every carpel sets fruit : and, as an average spike of 
A, spicatum li oe 40 flowers, a flower 5 carpels, and a carpel 
about 12 seeds, there are produced 40 x5 x12 or 2,400 seeds per 
seeds ina carpel;and thus 15x3x15 or 675 seeds per plant. 
A, heterophylloides produces about twice as many seeds as A. 
laciniatum 
The gregariousness of Aconitum spicatum may be judged from 
the plate of it on Sandakphu published in the Kew Bulletin, 
1907, facing p. 92. 
Strobilanthes possesses bee-flowers. There are at least two 

1 See Journal ete? Society Bengal, 1906, p. 524. 
2 A paper by Kronfeld, interesting but perhaps too conclusive, on the 
similarity of the distribution of Aconite and Bombus through the world is to 
be found in Engler’s Bot. Jahrbacher, xi., p. 19. 
