32 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



flowered, finely greyish pubescent, with adpressed curved hairs ; 

 lower bracts similar to the preceding leaves, but smaller and 

 less dissected, intermediate and upper lanceolate, sparingly 

 laciniate or the uppermost entire and very narrow ; pedicels 

 ascending, slender, lowest o'5-o 'rarely 7*5) cm. long, upper 

 much shorter ; bracteoles herbaceous, resembling the upper 

 bracts. Sepals saturated red-purple or dark-red, finely pubes- 

 cent ; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet erect or sub-erect, 

 equally curved in front and on the back, or slightly concave 

 in front, produced into a short lip or beak, about 20 mm. high 

 and 20 mm. from the tip to the base, 9-13 mm. wide, claw broad, 

 snort; lateral sepals oblique, sub-orbicular, ciliate, 14-10 mm. 

 long, broadly and obscurely clawed ; lower cleflexed or sub-hori- 

 zontal, oblong, obtuse, 12-14 mm. long. Nectaries hispidulous, 

 at least below ; claw slightly curved, about 12 mm. long ; hood 

 sub-erect or slightly leaning forward, 6 mm. long, gibbous or 

 almost spurred on the back, close to the apex, lip short or 

 elongate, rather broad, 2-lobed. Filaments hispidulous in the 

 upper part, 7 mm. long, winged up to or beyond the middle, 

 wings gradually or abruptly running out. Carpels 3, rarely 

 4: or 5, conniving in the flower, oblong, attenuate into a slender, 

 finely curved style, densely and adpressedly pubescent. 

 Follicles at first divergent, then conniving, contiguous, linear- 

 oblong, more or less convex on the back, 18-25 mm. long, o-6 

 mm. wide, finely pubescent. Seeds obpyfamidal, 3-gonous, 3 mm. 

 long, brown, broadly winged along the rhaphe, with transverse. 

 undulate, hyaline lamellae. 



Properties and uses : — According to Rogers, it forms, together 

 with Bihh A. spicatum) the article known as " Nepal Aconite.*' 



25. ^4. lethale, Griff, 



Sijn. :— A. palmatum, Don. H. F.BR.I-,1. 2&. 



Vernacular name : — Unknown. 



Habitat: —-Higher parts of Mishmi Mountains. 



Hoots (according to Griffith) fusiform, whitish or brown, 

 bearing root-fibres. Stem branched, (lexuous, slender, terete, 



