28 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



" or more in the inner, to f or more in the outer incisions, 

 inner divisions rhomboid-cuneate, 3-lobed to the middle, with 

 the inner lobe elongated and pinnati-laciniate, outer divisions 

 much smaller, trapezoid, 2-lobed, all the lobes and laciniae 

 broadly inciso-dentate, teeth usually triangular, upper blades 

 very similar, but smaller and less deeply divided or 3-partite, 

 with intermediate division much longer than lateral. Inflores- 

 cence an erect stiff, usually dense raceme, about 15-20 cm. 

 long, rarely lax and with slender few-flowered ascending 

 additional branches from below, finely adpressedly pubescent or 

 rarely with short spreading hairs ; axis rather slender, lowest 

 bracts 3-partite, upper ovate to deltoid, all acutely and coarsely 

 dentate ; braeteoles usually present, resembling the upper 

 bracts, but much smaller : pedicels slender, erect, often almost 

 Lid pressed to the axis, lowest up to 4 cm. long, the upper 

 much shorter. Sepals blue, with very dark tips (in the dry 

 state , pubescent ; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet obliquely 

 semi-orbicular in profile, very shortly beaked, 16-22 mm. 

 high, 18-22 mm. long, from the tip to the base, 8-9 mm. 

 wide ; lateral sepals oblique, suborbicular or ovate-orbicular, 

 14-18 mm. long, lower sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse 8-10 mm. 

 long. "Nectaries extinguisher-shaped, claw erect, 13-15 mm. 

 long, minutely hispid, hood leaning forwards or almost 

 horizontal, slightly constricted or obscurely gibbous on 

 the back, close to the top, lip spathulate, broad, crenulate. 

 C ' irpels 5, obliquely oblong, conniving in the flower, soon 

 slightly divergent, gradually passing into rather long style, 

 quite glabrous and black when dry, or sometimes more or less 

 very minutely silky-pubescent. Follicles erect and contiguous 

 or slightly diverging upwards, oblong rounded at the top, 

 14-1<S mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, glabrous, faintly reticulate. 

 Seeds brown, obconic. 3-4 mm. long, winged (often broadly) 

 along the rhaphe, with undulate, hyaline, rather wide and 

 distant transverse lamellae. 



Variety, Latilobium, Stapf. 



Roots up to 12 cm. long, and 2'5 cm. thick, with few fibres. 

 Upper leaf-Wades 3-partite to § ; up to 6'5 cm. high, 10 cm. 



