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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
flowered, finely greyish pubescent, with adpressed curved hairs; 
lower bracts similar to the preceding leaves, but smaller and 
iess dissected, intermediate and upper lanceolate, sparingly 
laeiniate or the uppermost entire and very narrow ; pedicels 
ascending, slender, lowest 3'5-5 (rarely 7'5) cm. long, upper 
much shorter ; bracteoles herbaceous, resembling the upper 
bracts. Sepals saturated red-purple or dark-red, finely pubes- 
cent ; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet erect or sub-erect, 
equally curved in front and on the back, or slightly concave 
in front, produced into a short lip or beak, about 20 mm. high 
and 20 mm. from the tip to the base, 9-13 mm. wide, claw broad, 
short ; lateral sepals oblique, sub-orbicular, ciliate, 14-1(1 mm. 
long, broadly and obscurely clawed ; lower deflexed or sub-hori- 
zontal, oblong, obtuse, 12-14 mm. long. Nectaries hispidulous, 
at least below ; claw slightly curved, about 12 mm. long ; hood 
sub-erect or slightly leaning forward, 6 mm. long, gibbous or 
almost spurred on the back, close to the apex, lip short or 
elongate, rather broad, 2-lobed. Filaments hispidulous in the 
upper part, 7 mm. long, winged up to or beyond the middle, 
wings gradually or abruptly running out. Carpels 3, rarely 
4 or 5, conniving in the flower, oblong, attenuate into a slender, 
finely curved style, densely and adpressedly pubescent. 
Follicles at first divergent, then conniving, contiguous, linear- 
oblong, more or less convex on the back, 18-25 min. long, 5-fi 
mm. wide, finely pubescent. Seeds obpyramida), 3-gonous, 3 mm. 
long, brown, broadly winged along the rhaphe, with transverse, 
undulate, hyaline lamellae. 
Properties and uses : — According to Rogers, it forms, together 
with Bikh (A. spicatuin) the article known as “ Nepal. Aconite.” 
25 . A. lethale, Griff 
Syn. : — A. palinatuin, Don. H. f.bk.l,i. 28. 
Vernacular name : — Unknown. 
Habitat: — Higher parts of Mishmi Mountains. 
Roots (according to Griffith) fusiform, whitish or brown, 
bearing root-fibres. Stem branched, flexuous, slende r , terete, 
