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Alpixe Himalaya and West Tibet, alt. 10-17,000 ft.— Distkib. North Alpine and 

 Arctic regions. 



A slender, tufted, glabrous perennial. Stem 3-6 in. Leaflets small, rounded, 3-lobed 

 or almost 3-partite, glaucous beneath. Scapes simple, rarely forked; pedicels short, 

 refiexed in Iniit; bracteoks oblong, obtuse, membranous, i'foz^er^ greenish. Anthers 

 beaked.^ Achenes few. — The length of the stalk of the achene varies in both European 

 and Indian specimens. 



-It T. rotundifolium, DC. Syst i, 185; leaves simple, stipules free, 

 maments filiform, achenes with a straight beak hooked at the tip. J)(m 

 Prodr. 193; Wall. Cat. 2713; PL As. Mar. t 264; H.f. <k T. Ft. Ind. 19. 



NiPAL, Hamilton, Wallich. 



^tm erect, 1 ft. ; roots fibrous. Leaves long-petioled, 2-3 in diara., orbicular or 

 Wt. "^ ^ many shallow toothed lobes, membranous, much reticulate, scabrous on 

 Doth surfaces; stipules oblong. Panicle few-flowered. Aclienes immature. 



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_p. T. Dalzellii, Hook. Ic. PL t. 866 ; leaves 3-foliolate rarely 2-ternate, 

 Stipules free, panicle subsiinple, filaments clavate, achenes with a long 

 straight beak hooked at the tip. H. f. A; T. Fl. Ind. 10 ; Ddz. d; Gibs. 

 ^onAay Flora, 2. f j 



Mountains of the Western Peninsula : Hamchander, Dalzell; Bababuden hills in 

 Malabar, Law. 



__^™ T^'' ^ ^'- leaves slightly sheathing at the base; leaflets 14-2 in. diam., 

 Binan T' uP ^ cordate, 7-9 lobed, lobes crenate or toothed ; stipules oblong. Panicle 

 nau, branches few. Flowers white, fascicled at the ends of the branches. Achenes 

 many, sessile, ribbed. ' 



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Punduanum, Wall. Cat. 3712; PL As. Ear. ii. 26; leaves 



filiform, 



wnate, sheaths auricled, panicle much branched, filaments 

 ™/}^any smaU ribbed, beak long straight hooked at the tip. 



700y ^™ Western Himalaya ; wet rocks of Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 4500- 



5<««, Oft ^^"^ "'"'*'' '■"^'^^ "^^ar Chuvr.-i, alt. 3-4000 ft. 

 «rbicQk ^\^^^' •^««*'«« long-petioled, upper 3-folioIate ; leaflets 1-2 m. diara., 

 neatli 1 r 1 ,' ^^^® cordate or truncate, 5-lobed, crenate, glaucous or tomentose be- 

 •essile nr , n °3 '"l"^ ! «*^P«'s 0. Pc/'ucZe nearly leafless. /7ower« white. Achenes 

 ;' , Var 1 f ' ^^''^ "^^'■'3' tbeir own length.— Two well-marked varieties, 

 •essilo „i V ^ "^"*' 'eiives membranous, glabrous and glaucous beneath, achenes 

 «««le glabrous w. Himalaya and Khasia.*^ ' , 



or le« «r,i/?"f "^«"'» '■ leaves coriaceous viscidlv pubescent beneath, achenes more 

 'es>s stalked glandular-hairy. ' 



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achenS ,?^^"^'^^ *^'"«st free, filaments " filiform, anthers short mucronate, 

 H f 7 T^V, \"^^^l ribbed with a long straight beak hooked at the tip. 

 - ■J-<^ i.J^L Ind. 15. T. radiatum, Royle III 52. 



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^a; on wet rucks and tree trunks, from Simla and Kunawer 



^'cle. loWnpfM*'/*'"^' glabrous; root fibrous. Radical leaf o 

 ^^nibranmrq I * ^^^^ leaves few ; leaflets 4-1 in, orbicular 



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Badical leaf often equalling the pa- 

 "'«nibranmr"T'^' ^^^™ leaves few; leaflets i-1 in, orbicular or oval, base cuneate, 

 ^''<'«'«r« Z 11^ T""" beneath, 3-lobed or -partite, lobes rounded or mucronate. 

 ^^allich's r.:f 'i * "'^- -^c/ie/t/a sessile, oblong, as long as their beak. 



8 Walogue, but distributed by him. 



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