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Description of New Species Sfc. 



Banttkculus pangiensis, n. sp. (Plate IX. B. figs. 3-9.) 



Perennis, repens, ramosus, l-2£ ped. altus, oranino pilosus, pilis sparsis 

 longis albidis patentissimis. Radices carnosae, claviformes, fasciculatae, 

 j 6-12 lineas longse. Caules e nodis rhizomatis, solitarii, crassiusculi, 

 striati, basi simplices, fistulosi. Folia radicalia et caulina inferiora gra- 

 ciliter petiolata, 3-6-pollicaria, subtriternata, segmentis angustis pinuati- 

 fidis trifidis vel bifidis, caulina superiora sessilia, tripartita vel simplicia. 

 Flores flavi, 9-12 lineas diametro, corymbosi, longe pedunculati; pe- 

 dunculi striati vel leviter sulcati. Sepala ovato-oblonga, recurva. Petala 

 obovato-rotundata, infra medium nectarifera. Receptaculum maturum 

 elongatum. Achcenia numerosissima, lsevia, glabra, subplana, uncinata. 



| Pangi, 8000 feet. 



B. HiBTELLTTS, Boyle. 



An exceedingly variable species, averaging from 2 inches to 

 xnore than a foot in height, and constituting two parallel sets of 

 forms — the one perfectly glabrous and having larger flowers with 

 a. more elongated receptacle, the other more or less hairy and 

 often very small-flowered. The former is of a much more alpine 

 character, often growing in the snow, and never descending below 

 1,0,000 feet. It is distributed from the northern slopes of the 

 Second Bange throughout Pangi, Lahoul, and Ladak, whereas 

 the latter extends southward from the Second Bange, at altitudes 

 friom 4000-12,000 feet. 



B. scEiiEEATUs, var. mtostjeoides, nov. var. (Plate IX. A. 

 figs. 1,2*.) 

 Robustus, 2-3-pedalis, valde ramosus et foliosus. Folia caulina 3-5- 



ptirtita, segmentis latis grosse serratis basi attenuatis. Flores minuti. 



Receptaculum post anthesin elongatum, usque 6 lineas longum, ar- 



cuatum, glabrum, nudum. 



On the ascent to Noorpore, Punjab. 



A. very singular variety of H. sceleratus, in which the oblong 

 receptacle elongates as much as half an inch after shedding the 

 achenes, and becomes quite naked and curved. 



R. difftjstts, var. hydrocotyloides, Wall, (species). Tandi, 

 Lahoul, 10,000-12,000 feet. 



A very distinct stemless form, having thick, fleshy, fusiform 



* The receptacle is incorrectly represented as being hairy. 



