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above, otherwise contiguous, loosely hairy, or glabrate, 12 mm. 

 long, 4-5 mm. broad. Seeds obpyramidal, trigonous, 3-3'5 mm. 

 long, dark-brown, broadly winged along the rhaphe, faces with 

 narrow transverse lamellae giving out towards the back. 



Properties and uses : — Gobriya is quoted by Duthie as the 

 name of one of the nine poisonous aconites of theRalam Valley. 

 A sample of tubers from Dudatoli was examined by Prof. 

 Dunstan, with the result that the daughter-tubers contained 

 nearly 1 per cent and the mother-tubers 0'5 per cent of pseudo- 

 aconitine. 



22. A Faleoneri, Stapf., sp. nov. 



Vernacular names: — Bis, Bikh, Meetha-tellia, (Royle) in an 

 incomplete manuscript catalogue (of Himalayan plants) at Kew. 



Habitat :— Subalpine and Alpine Zone of the Himalaya of 

 Garhwal. 



Roots biennial, paired, tuberous, daughter-tuber conic to 

 cylindric from a broad, truncate base, up to 8 cm. long, to 2 cm. 

 thick, entire or divided, bearing more or less numerous filiform 

 fibrous root-fibres, externally brown, fracture white, slightly 

 farinaceous or horny, taste somewhat bitter, followed by 

 a strong burning and tingling sensation, cambium continuous, 

 forming in transverse section a slightly sinuous ring ; mother- 

 tuber similar, much shrunk and wrinkled. Innovation-bud very 

 short and broad, conic, bud-scales very short, broad and 

 clasping, soon decaying after sprouting. Stem erect, simple, 

 up to 1 m. high, moderately stout, finely pubescent or sub- 

 glabrous in the upper part, quite glabrous below. Leaves 

 scattered, 10 or more, if many, the upper sometimes rather 

 crowded, the intermediate usually very distant, the lowest 

 decayed at the time of flowering ; petioles slender, lowest up to 

 12cm. long, upper much shorter, uppermost very short ; blades 

 rather thin, very sparingly and finely pubescent or glabrous, 

 with the exception of the nerves at the base below, lower and 

 intermediate rotundate-cordate to reniform in outline, with 

 a very wide and open sinus, 1-3 cm. deep, 6-10 cm. high, from 

 the sinus to the tip, 12-15 cm, across, 5 — sub-pedati-partite to 



