8 ]. BANTTNCULACE-J:. 



1. Naravelia zeylanica, PC. Syst. i. p. 167, et Prodr. i. p. 10. 



Naravelia pilulifera, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 111. 



Clematis zeylanica, Pair.; Kuntze, Monogr. Gatt. Clem. p. 121. 



Kwangttjng {Hance Sf Sampson I). Herb. Kew. 



The Chinese specimen is very distinct in the shape of its petals 

 from the ordinary form ; but there is a specimen in the Kew 

 Herbarium from Gowhatty, in India, which is quite like it ; and 

 there is every gradation between these very slender knob-headed 

 petals and linear ones. 



"Widely spread in Tropical Asia. 



1. Thalictrnm alpinnm, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. l,p. 545; JDC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 12 ; Franchet in Pull. Soe. Pot. France, xxxii. p. 4. 



Yunnan : mountains near Tali {Delavay ex Franchet). 

 Alpine and Arctic regions all round the northern hemisphere. 



2. Thalictrnm fcenicnlacenm, Punge, Fnum. PI. Ch. Por. p. 2 ; 

 Walp. Pep. i. p. 13 ; Lecoyer in Pull. Soc. Pot. Pelg. xxiv. 

 p. 222. 



Chihli : near Peking {Punge ! Tatarinow ! Pretschneider !) ; 

 Kanstjh : south of the Hoangho, and on the Tsunglin range 

 {Piasezlci ex Maximowicz MSS.). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



3. Thalictrnm Fortnnei, S. Moore in Journ. Pot. 1878, p. 130 ; 

 Hance in Journ. Pot. 1883, p. 295; Lecoyer in Pull. Soc. Pot. 

 Pelg. xxiv. p. 162. 



Thalictrum baicalense, Turcz., var. ? minor, Maxim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm. 

 p. 3. 



Anwhet : "Wuhu {PullocJc ex Hance) ; Chekiang : Ningpo 

 (Hancock I), without locality {Fortune 28) ; Kiangsi : Kiukiang 

 (Mariesl). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



4. Thalictrnm majxis, Jacg. Fl. Austr. t. 420 (sensu Pegel, 

 Gattung Thalictrum, p. 34), ex Franchet, PI. David, p. 15. 



Chihli : Jehol and near Peking {David, 600, 2054). 

 This is united, as a variety, with T. minus in Hooker's ' Flora of 

 British India.' 



5. Thalictrnm minns, Linn. Sp. PI ed. 1, p. 546 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 13 ; Mtq. in Ann. Mus. Pot. Lugd. Pat. iii. p. 3, et Prol. Fl. 

 Jap. p. 191 (var. hypoleucum) ; Deleaux, Fl. Tchef. p. 23. 



