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I. hanunculace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



yiowers regular solitary or panicled. 



Petals 0, leaves undivided 9. Caltha. 



Petals 0, leaves palmatelj divided 10. Calathodes. 



Petals bniall, carpels long-stalked 12. Corns. 



Petals small, carpels sessile, flowers yellow 11. Tkollius. 



Petals small, carpels sessile, flowers white 13. Isopykum. 



Petals as large as the sepals, ail spurred 14. Aquileoia. 



Flowers regular racemed. 



Carpel solitary, berried when ripe , 17. Act^a, 



Carpels 4-8, follicular wliea ripe . 18. Cimicifuga. 



Flowers irregular. 



Posterior sepal spurred 15. Delphinium. 



Posterior tepal vaulted 16. Acomtum. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Sepals herbaceous, imbri 



Fruit of coria 



Tribe V. Paeonieae. 



cate. (Jarpds several, several-ovuled, girt by a fleshy disk, 

 ceous few-seeded follicles. 



19. P^ONIA. 



1. CX>E»XATZS, Linn. 



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3. C. montana, Uam. ex DC. Syi<t. i 164; leaves teruately divided, 

 pedicels naked, stamens glabrous. Wall. PL As. Mar. iii. t. 217; //. / 

 AT.FLhid.h. CL Punduana, ]YalL C'o^. 4862. : . C anemoniflora, Don 

 i'rodr. 192; Anemone curta, WcdL Cat. 469a n . : .i u 



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Woody, usually climbing underslirubs. Leaves opposite, usually com- 

 pound, exstipulate, petioles often twining, //j/forescence axillary or terminal. 

 Sepals usually 4, (to 8) petaloid, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens many. 

 Carpels many, eacb witli 1 pendulous ovule. Fruit a Lead of sessil*? or 

 stalked achenes, with long feathery styles, excej)t in Sect. Viticella. 

 Dti>TKiB. All temperate climates, rarer in the tropics ; species about 100. 



Sect. I. Vitloella, DC. Achenes beaked, without feathery styles. 



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U. C. Cadmia, Ham. ex ]yalL Gat. 4669; H.f.&T.Fl.tni. 5; C. 



sulcata. Wall. Cat 4667. Thalictrum bracteatum, Roxh. FL Ind. ii. 671. 



E. Bengal in tropical jungles, and along the base of the Himalaya, from the Kosi 

 to Assam. Birma, Griffith. 



A slender subherbaceous climber. Leaves 3-nately decompound; leaflets 1-2 in. 

 ovate-oblong, glabrous, base oblique or cordate. Flowers axillary, solitary ; peduncle 

 long, with two leafj bracts about the middle. Sepals 5 to 6, f to 1 in. spreading! 

 linear-oblong, blue. Achenes many, large, broadly ovate, beak long straight, young 

 silky. 



Sect. IL CheiropBis, DC. Achenes with long feathery styles. Flawer$ « 

 in axillary fascicles; pedicels 1 fld. 



2. C. Napaulensis, DC. Si/sL.l 164; leaves ternately divided, pedicels 

 with 2 connate bracts at Or near the middle. //. /. c& T. FL Ind. 6; 

 IValL Cat. 4680. C. montana, Don Prodr. 192 (not of otliers). 



Tempkrate Himalaya from Garwh d to Bhotan. 



A slender nearly glabrous climber. Lrajltts 1-2 in., elHptic-lanceolate, sometimes 

 very narrow, entire toothed or 3-lobed, 3-nerved, lateral oblique. Flowers many, 

 pedicels shorter than the leaves ; bracts forming a 2-lipped cup, in which the bud is 

 aesfiile. Se2)als 4, oblong, silky outside. Filaments glabrous, tapering from a broad 

 flat base ; anthers short. Achenes flat, margined, hairy. 



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