N. O. RANUNCULA0E2E. 
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base, 2'5 — 3'5 cm. wide, 3-lobed to or beyond tire middle or 
pinnate-laciniate, lobes or laciniee broad-linear, obtuse to shortly 
acute l'5-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, entire or the larger with 
1-2 coarse teetli or linear lobules, outer divisions 2-fid beyond 
the middle, inner segment 2-3-lobed, outer often entire, linear. 
Inflorescence an erect dense or somewhat loose, terminal raceme 
6-18 cm. long, or with additional branches from the upper leaves, 
glabrous or sparingly softly pubescent ; lower bracts foliaceous, 
3-partite, with mostly entire long linear segments, considerably 
exceeding the pedicels, intermediate linear, entire, up to 2-5 cm. 
long, upper filiform, short, ; pedicels slender, erect or often 
adpressed to the rhachis, lower 1*5 — 2’5 cm. long ; bracteoles 
linear, above the middle of the pedicel, sometimes close to the 
flower. Sepals blue, pubescent, ciliate ; uppermost helmet- 
sbaped ; helmet clawed, equally curved on the back and in front 
(seen in profile!, descending into a long slender beak, lateral 
margin deeply concave, 16-18 mm. high, 12-15 mm. from the 
tip to the base, 5-6 mm. wide at the top ; lateral sepals oblique, 
obovate-orbicular, shortly clawed 13-17 mm. long, not conti- 
guous with the helmet; lower deflexed, sub-horizontal, elliptic to 
oblong, obtuse or sub-obtuse, 10-15 mm. long. Nectaries 
glabrous ; claw slender up to 12. mm. long ; hood erect, 5 mm. 
long, top gibbous at the back ; lip oblong-ovate, cretin) ate, 
as long as the hood. Filaments glabrous or sparingly hairy in 
the upper part, 7-8 mm. long, winged below, wings gradually 
or abruptly contracted. Carpels 3 lanceolate-oblong, gradually 
passing into the style, somewhat diverging, glabrous or almost 
so. Mature Follicles and seeds unknown. Young follicle 
distinctly diverging, inserted on the enlarging torus. 
Use. — “The root does not appear to find its way to the 
bazars of India. This species has not as yet been chemically 
investigated, and it is just possible that it may be found to 
contain aconitine .” — (Watt). 
18. A. Ghasmantlium, Stapf. Annals Royal Bot. 
Gard. Calcutta, Vol. X. pt. If., p. 142. 
Vern. — Mohri (Jhelum Basin) ; Piun (Jhelurn Basin); Ban- 
bal-nag (Kashmir.) 
