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across, divisions broadly deltoid or the outer trapezoid up to 
4'5 cm. broad, shortly 3-or (the outer) 2-lobed, lobes coarsely 
crenate or dentate. Inflorescence tomentose, with spreading 
hairs. Carpels quite glabrous. 
Properties and uses : — Evidently poisonous. 
23. A. spicatum, Stapf., sp. nov. 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc., Vol. X., pp. 165-166. 
Vernacular names : — Bit'll, Knlo Bikhoma Donghi ; Ouiong 
Mot and Shodduk Mot. 
Habitat'. — Alpine, zone of the Himalaya of Sikkim and 
Chumbi 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous, daughter- tuber conic or 
conic-oblong, often rather elongated, 10-20 cm. long, 1 '8-3 cm. 
thick, simple or sometimes deeply divided, with filiform root- 
fibres, the bases of which are sometimes abruptly thickened 
and persist as conical ovoid stumps, brown or blackish ex- 
ternally, fracture horny, yellowish or brown in the dry state, 
taste slightly sweetish bitter, .followed by a tingling sensation ; 
cambium continuous, forming in cross-section a more or less 
sinuous ring; mother-tuber similar, shrunk and wrinkled. 
Innonation-bud a very broad, much depressed cone, with broad 
clasping scales, decaying soon after sprouting. Stem erect, 
up to 1'5 m. high, straight or slightly flexuous above, simple 
terete or sometimes slightly angular, robust, sometimes as 
much as 3 cm. in diain., adpressedly greyish-pubescent., with 
deflexed hairs, glabrescent or quite glabrous in the lower part, 
brown or almost black when dry. Lowest leaves 5-8, decayed 
at the time of flowering, their scars rather distant ; intermediate 
and upper leaves as many as 12, approximate or congested, 
petioled ; petioles 2'5-7'5 cm. long, dilated at the base, blades 
somewhat fleshy, more or less finely pubescent, or at length 
glabrous above orbicular-cordate or reniform or broadly ovate 
(particularly the upper), with a usually shallow sinus, 3-partite 
to or the upper to f, intermediate division rhomboid or 
ovate from a linear cuneate base, sometimes acuminate, 5-10 
