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I. RANUNCULACE^, (Hook. f. & Thoms,) [Thalictni^n. 



Stem branched. Leaves small, uniform in size all up the stem ; leaflets obovate- 

 cuueate, 3-4-lobecl, reticulate, pale beneath, all petioled, mid-leafleis longest-petioled. 

 Panicle with 1 or few flowers at the ends of long branches. Sepals S-nerved, ovate, 

 acute. Achenes 3-6, obovate, dorsal suture straight. 



Sect. II Euthalictrum, DC. Achenes not compressed, oval or oblong, 



sessile or stalked (see 11, alpinum^ and 14, Pundaanum). 



* Achenes elongate, more or less stipitate. Anthers with a very short 

 beak or 0. 



7. T. virgratum, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 14; leaves subsessile simply ter- 

 nate, flowers small white, achenes many small erect acute at each end 

 ribbed, stigma straight. 



Eastern Himalaya, inner valleys of Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 ft, HooTc.f. Bhotak 

 Griffith (It. notes, 284). . 



Glabrous. Stem erect, 1-1 4 ft. Leaflets |-1 m., coriaceous, reticulate, orbicular, 

 5-7-lobed, base cuneate, glaucous beneath. Panicle decompound, spreading, bracts 

 minute. Anthers not beaked. Achenes 10-25, very short-stalked. 



8. T. niteefolium, H.f, & T, FL Ind. 14; glabrous, weak, straggling, 

 leaves decompoundly pinnate, flowers racemed very small greenish, achenes 

 few many-ribbed oblong curved, style incurved. 



Western Tibet, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson; interior of Sikkim, ait. 12,000 ft. 



More or less glaucoufi. Stem 1-2 ft. L^eafsheath auricled ; divisions sHpellatc; 

 leaflets very small, 3-lobcd or -partite, base cuneate. Panicle with long rigid simple 

 branches ; pedicels spreading or deflexed. Anthers short ; shortly beaked. Achent^ 

 shortly stipitate, abruptly deflexed, beaked by the style. — The Sikkim specimens are 

 greener and more luxuriant than the Tibetan, and have longer achenes. 



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9. T. pedunoulatum, Edgew. in Trans, Linn, Sac. xx. 27 ; leaves 

 3-ternate, flowers large white, achenes elongate strongly ribbed, style in- 

 curved. U.f. & T. Fl Ind. 15 ; Griff. Itin. not. 348.. 



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w ESTERN Temperate Himalaya ; Simla to Kaffnstan, alt. 6-8000 ft., Edgewortn,c^' ^ 

 Glabrous. Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves long-petioled, primary and secondary divisions 

 long-stalked; leaflets membranous, 1 in. diam., orbicular or cuneate-obovatC; 3-7- 

 lobed. Panicle terminal; pedicels long. Sepals variable in size, J-1 in., oblong, j 

 obtuse, twice as long as the stamens. Anthers not pointed, short. Achenes 4~l ^^^ 

 linear-oblong, tapering at both ends. — Griffith's Kafifristan specimens are larger flowered | 

 than the Himalayan. 



la T. rosteUatum, ff.f. d: T. Fl Ind, 15 ; difFusely branched, leaves 

 tcmately decompound, flowers small white, achenes tapering into a straigW 

 beak half their length, tip hooked. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 7-11,000 ft., rare, from Simla, Jacquemont, &c., to 

 Sikkim, Hoohf. 



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 pinnate rarely 2-pinnate, flowers racemed, achenes oblong striate subsessile 

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