8. O. RAKUNCDLACEiE. 
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above, otherwise contiguous, loosely hairy, or glabrate, 12 mm. 
long, 4-/5 min. broad. Seeds ohpvraniidal, trigonous, 3-3'5 mm. 
long, dark-brown, broadly winged along the rliaphe, facts with 
narrow transverse lamellae giving out towards the back. 
Properties nv J rises : — Gobriya is quoted by Dnlhie as the 
name of one of the nine poisonous aconites of iheRnlam Valley. 
A sample of tubers from Dudatoli was examined by Prof 
Dunstan, with the residt that the danghter-tnbers contained 
neaily 1 per cent and the mother-tubers 0 5 per cent of pseudo- 
aconitine. 
22 . A Falconeri , Stapf., sp. nov. 
Vernacular names: — Bis, Bikh, Meetha-tcllia, (Royle) in an 
incomplate manuscript catalogue (of Himalayan plants) at Kew. 
Habitat : — Subalpiue and Alpine Zone of the Himalaya of 
Garhwal. 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous, daughter-tuber conic to 
cylindric from a broad, truncate base, up to S cm. long, to 2'cm. 
thick, entire or divided, bearing mote or less numerous filiform 
fibrous root-fibres, externally brown, fracture white, slightly 
farinaceous or horny, taste somewdiat 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. I n novation- hud 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 
