I l l ANÍFALS OP EOYAL LOTANIC GAUDEK, CALCUTTA.
IS membranous, cylindric,
style persistent, straiglit,
keeled, sides
shorter; stigma shortly bilobcd. Folliclcs with fine tinnsverso vei
rotundato-truDcato at the apox, 8—9 mm. long, somewhat hairy,
erect, 2—3-5 mm. long. Seeds about 3 mm. long, ventral sid
slightly convex, testa black.
PLITE 125. Aconitum (¡pnnanilrum. Mnsim. 1, small sized specimen I 3, lie)met; 3, lateral; i, anterior sepal; 5,
neclary ; 6, ätaaieu; 7, pedicel witli bcacta and carpels; S, seed; 9, lipe follicle,
PAEONIA MOUTAN, Ail.
(Aii. Fl. Km. ed. 2, vol. Ill, p. 315, 1811; DC., Prodr. vol. /, p. 65; Sms, Bot.
MAN. nö8; Anderson, Mon. in Tr. Linn. SOG. XII, p. 352; Uuth, Hon. in Engler Bot.
Jahrl. XIII, p. 372.)
Stem branched, base of annual shoots covered -with scales, leaves sub-bipinnately
or bitemately divided, lateral leaflets lobcd or entire, terminal ones 3—5-Iobed or
cleft with the lobes ovate, petals 8 or more, rarely 5—7, carpels 5, subtomentose with
coai'se short haii-s, disc urceolate finally usually ii-regnlarly split, follicles divergent.
Subspccies ATAVA, Faul Brühl, petals 5—7 (—8), 4—7 em. long, suborbiculate.
Description.—Annual shoots alternate, covered at the base with numerous imbricate
many-veined ovate apiculate scales 6—20 mm. loug, subcylindrical, glabrous. Leaves
4.—0 on each branch, alternate, long-petioled, large, the uppermost ones often smaller
and less divided, even trifoliate; blade 7—15 em. long, primary divisions short-petioled,
more or less distinctly ternately arranged, themselves usually pinnate and 5-foIiolate,
sometimes trifoliolate; leaflets herbaceous, the lowest pair very short-potioled, broadly
ovate, subpinnately unsymmetrically and coarsely cleft and subserrate, rarely entire, without
the potiolulc 3—i'5 cm. long, r3—3 cm. broad; intermediate leaflets ovate-or ellipticaloblong,
entire or scarcely incised-sen-ate, 2—i cm. long, 1—2 cm. broad, always
narrower than the remaining ones; terminal leaflets (3—) 4—5"5 cm. long, 3—5 era.
broad, trisect or tripartite or trifid, otherwise entire or the middle division again cleft
or sparsely and coarsely sen-ate; all leaflets obtuse or subcuneate, more rarely quite
cuneate at the base, subacute at the apex, glabrous, below subglaucous, nerves fine
and scarcely prominent below; petioles semiterete or sabterete, searccly dilated at the
base, 5—12 cm. long. Flowers solitary on the branches, terminal, large; peduncle strict,
I C em. long. Bracts 3, inserted near the base of the calyx, in the same spiral with
the calyx leaves and gradually passing into them, oblaneeolate-subspatulatc, the
outermost 5—7 cm. long, sparsely incised or ineisedly lobed, the innermost 4—5 cm. long
quite entire, all of them again dilated at the base and glabrous. Sepals 5, iierbaceous
reticulately veined, 2—3 cm. long, inner ones a little smaller than the others, entire,
glabrous, persistent, ultimately reflexed; the outermost oblanceolatii conspicuously dilated
at the base, the second from a broadish base long-acuminate, the third ovate longacuminate,
the fourth broad-ovate short-acuminate, the fifth suborbiculalo with the shorUy
produced apex subtruncate. i'etals 5—7 (—8?j, membranou.";, traversed by much-branched
nerves, broadly cuneate at the base, crose-sinuate at the margin, 7—8 cm. long,
white with a rosy hue, with a large dark-purple spot near the base. Stamens numerous'
gradually increasing in length inwards, the innermost projecting a little beyond
the disc; filaments narrowly linear, coloured, outer ones about 4, innermost ones 10—
17 mm. long anthers linear-oblong, apiculate, outer ones 3, inner ones 5 — 6 mm long.
1 DESCIUITIO>-S OF HEW AND EAEE INDIAN PLANTS. 11 5
Pistils 5, ercct, about 2 cm. long, surrounded by the urceolate subgloLoso somftwhat
fleshy dLsc which is at first dentate at the apex ami finally irre^-ularly torn- ovaries
ovoid-oblong, convex dorsally, ventrally nearly straight, attenuated upwards, covered with
coarse brown hairs; stigma iuduplicate, veined, recurved, undulate, papillose alon- the
edges, protruding from the disc. Foliiclcs divergent, coriaceous, ovoid, tomentose"
Flowers
Chumbi,
I June.
I'uk-chung (Kinjs colUctor !).
cliiofly in tho number of
smaller tlian those of the
I-d'oma Moulnn, sub-sp. atova differs from ths typical P^wna MotU
petals, ^hich ¡a tlie garden io>-m are usunlly very Bumerous. Tha leailels are smaller tJiaa those of t!
cultivated p ant, but m this respect it stands between the ktier and a vaaiety from Juprin Thei
appeai-3 to be no doubt ahout iU growng ^yilcl in the Chumbi bills or of'its being the atieeslr.il
fom of the numerous ga.deu varieties of Pae.,uia Mculan. Prom Paeonia Ddavayi, Franehet it is
easüy distmgu.shed by tlio tomeutose (not glabrous) cu-p^is, pnd the ovato or ovato-oblon.^ inct
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate) leaf-segmeuts, which are not confluent
PLATS 12e. Faeoni
=t yst bur
^Joutan, DC., subsp. ata»
rary, grc.iily magnified;
shoot ill
carpel;
ead of Í imturo follicles,
lü.Lülf o£ ilie
TETJÎACERA GUANDIS. King in Journ. As. Soc. Jieogal, for 1889, pt. 2, p. 303.
JS'at. Ord. Dillmiucece.
A large tree. Young branches and inflorescence shortly velvety-tomeniosc U-ue^
large, coriaceous, broadly elliptic, rarely slightly obovate, the apex truncate and
m.nutoiy apiculate; the edges obscurely crcnat. or undulate toward tlie .pex entire
below, recurved when dry; the base rounded or slightly narrowed: upper surface
scabrous, lower minutely tomentose: nerves stout, 14 to 16 pairs, rather slraio-ht erectopatent;
length of blade 8 to 11 in., width 5 to fi in., petiole about -7'in stout
Ivjlorescenee m ht tie-branched, lateral or terminal panicles a foot or more lon'r. 'JTloioer]
shortly pedunculate. Sepals 5, broadly ovate, sub-acute, concave, ribbed and"tomentose
externally, -5 in. long. FelaU nearly as long as the sepals, but narrower, glabrous
Anthers witli obcordute connective narrowed to the l.,ng slender tilaments. FolUdes with
a slender curvod beak.
Perak. Scortcchini, No. 90i.
'Ihis sper-ies has ns 3-ct been collected only by the i
reniereovsr scanty, and uoue of tbeai are iu fruit.
. Rovd. Fatlier Soo.teckiiii, whose
rs IÏ9. Ttl>a<-ti-a ¡¡raudU, Kiug. 1,
ciUrged; i, Uower, dissectcd ; 5, ai
inflopesconce : of n
, two piilils: ¡aud tnlarged.
: 3, lloiver witb tho petals r,
, p. 3C5.
PLATE 130.
WoKiiiA MELiosM-tPOLiA, King in Journ. As. Soc. Beugal, for 1889,
Nat. Ord. Diilcniacew.
A small tree, the young parts and leaf-petioles soCtly fulvous-tomentose. Leat-cs
ciowcled near the apices of the branches, coriaccous, obovate-lanceolate to obovate-elliptic,
A.NN. EOT. BOT, GAIIJ>. C.VI.C., Vor. V.
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