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Ranunculus cantoniensis, DC. Prodr. i. p. 43? 



Hecatonia pilosa, Lour. FL Cochinch. p. 3/1 ? 



This very variable species seems to be common iu the Eastern 

 Provinces, from Chihli to Kwaugtung, and Maximowicz reports it 

 to us from Shensi and Kansuh ; it is also in the Kew Herbarium 

 from Szechuen and the Corea. The extreme forms with globose 

 and oblong heads of achenes are very different, but there is every 

 gradation between. A form collected by Hance within the 

 enclosure of a temple in the Pahwan mountains near Canton is 

 hardly distinguishable from R.japonicus except in the very short 

 straight beak of the achenes. This species exhibits the same 

 kind and range of variability in North India. Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Sutlej to the Khasia hills and in the Amur, and in North 

 America. 



9. Ranunculus Polii, Franchet, sp. nov. 



" Radix fibrosa, fibris validis elongatis ; caulis e basi ramosus, 

 ramis decumbentibus, ssepe radicantibus ; folia inferiora tripartita, 

 vel pinnatim ternata, segmentis petiolulatis trifidis, lobis ovatis vel 

 lanceolatis integris vel rarius 2-3-dentatis ; folia superiora pauca 

 (1-2), sessilia, tripartita ; pedunculi uniflori, elongati (2|-4 poll.), 

 graciles, subtiliter striati ; sepala ovalia, patentia ; petala lutea, 

 late ovata, calyce triplo longiora; carpella juniora in capitulum 

 ovatum digesta, oblonga, hispidula, in stylum elongatum circina- 

 tum abeuntia. 



" Planta gracilis vix palmaris, pra>ter carpella hispida, glaber- 

 rima ; corolla? diametro circiter 6 lineas." — Franchet MS. 



Ktangstt: Pengwangshan (Poli ex Franchet). 



In the Kew Herbarium are very young specimens of a Ranun- 

 culus from Shanghai, collected by Maingay, which may be this 

 species, described by Franchet as having the habit of a very much 

 reduced state of R. repens. 



10. Ranunculus pulchellus, C. A. Mey. in Ledeb. Fl. Altaica, ii. 

 p. 333, et Ic. PI. Fl. Ross. t. Ill ; Walp. Rep. i. p. 38 ; Franchet 

 in Bull. Soc. Rot. France, xxxii. 



Yunnan : Koualapo mountain near Hokin {Belavay ex 

 Franchet). 



Baical to Altai. 



11. Ranunculus repens, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. l,p. 554; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 38 ; BaJcer Sf Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 376. 



