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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
If nr 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 eiect 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 ; bracteoles usually present, resembling the upper 
bracts, but much smaller ; pedicels slender, erect, often almost 
adpressed 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, 
1418 mm. long, lower sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse 8-10 ram. 
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 spatlndate, broad, crenulate. 
Carpels 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, 
14-18 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, glabrous, faintly reticulate. 
Seeds brown, oHconic, 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-blades 3-partite to | ; up to 6’5 cm. high, 10 cm. 
