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the rest much reduced, coarsely and sparingly dentate, the upper- 
most very small; pedicels erect, slender, lower up to6'5crn. long, 
upper much shorter ; bracteoles linear, up to 4 mm. long, or on 
the lower pedicels broader and sparingly dentate. Sepals blue, 
crispo-puberulous ; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet more or 
less oblique, depressed, 15-20 mm. high, 17-22 mm. from the tip 
to the base, about 7 mm. wide (in profile), slightly concave 
towards the base in front and produced into a short beak and 
broadly clawed ; lateral oblique, sub-orbicular, scarcely ungui- 
culate, ciliate, 14-18 mm. long; lower oblong, 10 mm. long, 
obtuse, deflexed. Nectaries hispidulous all over; claw almost 
straight, 12-13 mm. long ; hood leaning forward, gibbous near 
the top on the back, 5 mm. long, lip short, broad, emarginate, 
reflexed. Filaments hairy in the upper part, 8-10 mm. long, 
winged beyond the middle, wings abruptly contracted. Carpels 
3, oblong, conniving in the flower, then sub-divaricate, ad- 
pressedly greyish-pubescent, contracted into the rather iong 
style. Follicles unknown. Seeds obconic, 3 mm. long, terete 
with numerous small, short transverse lamellae. 
Properties and uses . — Watt quotes in Agric. Ledg., G. G. 
Minniken as saying that in Bashahr the poisonous aconites 
are collectively called Mohra The poisonous principle of this 
aconite is pseudo-aconite. 
21. A. Balfouru, Stapf, sp. nov. 
Vernacular names -. —Oobriya (Darma) ; Gobari ( West Nepal) ; 
Banina (British Garlnval). 
Hahitat : — Snbalpine and Alpine Himalaya, from British 
Gai-hwal to Nepal. 
Roots biennial, paired or ternate, tuberous ; daughter-tubers 
sometimes paired or divided from the base, conic or elongate, 
conico-cylindric, 3-7 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick with a few root-fibres 
which are either slender-filiform or conspicuously thickened (up 
too mm. diam.) at the base, externally greyish-brown, fracture 
white, almost homy, taste rather indifferent, followed by a ting- 
ling sensation ; cambium discontinuous, broken up into strands 
arranged in a ring, the smaller circular in transverse section, 
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