Belphmium.] i. ranunculace^. (Hook. f. <fe Thorns.) 27 



11. D. vlscosum, H.f.&T. Fl.Ind. 52 ; stem covered with soft brown 

 tomentnm, leaves reniform palmately 5-7-lobed, lobes obtusely orenate, 

 flowers corymbose. 



Alpine East Himalaya; Sikkim, alt. 12-16,000 ft., HooTe.f. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branched from the base. Leaves 2-4 in. diam., at length glabrate, 

 lobed to near the middle. Flowers solitary or few at the ends of the branches of the 

 corymb ; bracts 3-pariite ; bracteoles linear-oblong. SepaU J in., broadly oval, pale 

 blue, purple,. tomentose, membranous, equalling the conical incurved spur. FoUkleg 3, 

 glabrous, ciliate on the suture. 



12. p. g'laclale, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 53 ; stem softly hairy, leaves 

 3-partite. lobes deeply multifid, flowers in lax corymbs. 



Alpine East Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 16-18,000 ft., Hook.f. 



Stem 3-6 in., simple, leafy. Leaves 2-3 in. diam., segments broadly cuneate. 

 Coj^mis few-flowered; bracts leafy; bracteoles many on the long pedicels, linear, or 

 cut into linear lobes. Flowers large, hairy. Sepals exceedirg 1 in., orbicular, mem- 

 branous, longer than the short straight conical spur. Follicles 4-5, 4 in. long. — ^Whole 

 plant of a rank musk odour. 



13. D. Brunonianum, Soyle III. 56; stem glabiptis or downy below 

 glandular-pubescent above, leaves 5-fid to the middle, lobes sharply cut or 

 toothed, flowers corymbose. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 53; Hook. Bot. Mag. t 5461, 

 D. Jacquemontianum, Gamh. in Jojaq. Voy. Bot. 8, t. 7. D. moschatum, 

 Munro in H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 53. 



Alpine West Tibet, alt. 14,000 ft. 



Stem 6-12 in., simple below, leafy. Leaves 3-4 in. diam., lobes cuneate-ovate ; 

 petioles very long. Flowers large, pale-blue, hairy; corymbs sometimes compound; 

 bracts 3-5-partite, upper simple, oblong or linear. Sepals 1 in., membranous, orbicular, 

 veined; longer than the conic spur. Follicles 5-6, | in., visoidly pubescent: whole 

 plant musky. — D. moschatum was distinguished by the colour and texture of tlie pos- 

 terior petal, which proves to be very variable. 



D. scabriflokum, Don in Mem. Wem. Soc. m. 412 (D. Carela, Don Prodr. 195), 

 appears to differ from D. altisaimum and vestitmm chiefly in the glabrous follicles ; it 

 is described from Nipal specimens of Wallioh, but none thus named exist in the Walli- 

 Chian Herbarium. 



Fragments of a Delphinium closely allied to D. incanum were brought by Dr. Hooker 

 from Tibet, north of Sikkim ; it differs from D. incanum in the slightly notched petals, 

 and may be new. 



D. pauciflorum,V>on'Pvoix.W&, is doubtless the cultivated D. ajacis or common 

 Larkspur. 



16. ACONXTVni, Linn. 



Perennial, erect, rarely twining herbs. Leaves palmatipartite, rarely 

 entire. Flowers irregular, racemed, blue purple white or yellow. Sepals 5, 

 petaloid, posterior (helmet) vaulted, the rest flat, 2 anterior narrower than 

 tlie lateral. Petals 2-5 ; 2 posterior clawed, limb hooded and enclosed in the 

 helmet, 3 lower small or obsolete. Stamens many. Follicles 3-5 sessile. 

 Seeds many ; testa spongy, rugose or wrinkled. — Disteib. North temp, zone, 

 species about 183. 



The roots of all the species, except A. Lycoctonum, A. heterophyllwn, and certain 

 fonqs of A Napellus, are poisonous, and called Bikh or Binh by the Hill people. We 

 have omitted the characters taken from the petals (which are over much relied on by 

 systematists) because they are so variable and so difficult of exact discrimination in 

 dried specimens. • 



The genus Nirbisia of Don (Gen. Syst. Gard. i. 63) was founded on an indeterminable 

 specieu of this genus. 



