Rahun6^us.\ . i. ranuNculaceje. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 10 





to the European B, auricomm, but the achenes are smaller, less compressed, are in an 

 oral head, and the radical leaf appears never to be entire. 



13. R. nivalis, Linn,; small, erect, 1-flowered, shaggy above, leaves 

 3-5-lobed or -Dartite. senals sliafire-v. H. f. rfc T. FL Tnd. 35. 



•partite, sepals shaggy. H,f. 



DiSTRIB. 



Alpine Himalaya. Tunkra pass in Sikkim, alt. 16,000 ft.. Hook, /. 

 Arctic Europe, Asia, and America. 



BooUtoch small. Stems subsolitary, 1-3 in., glabrous below. Radical leaves gla- 

 brous, segments 8-lobed : lower cauline petioled, upper sessile.- *— — ^^i"**^*- ^^^^^ 

 as the arctic plant, but not found in fruit. 



Apparently the same 



\f ^ 



14, B. sceleratus, Linn. • annual, erect, glabrous, leaves 3-partite, 

 achenes naany in an oblong head small obtuse or apiculate. Don Prodr. 195 ; 

 ^y}flll 53; H. f. & T. FL Ind, 35. E. indicus, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 657; 

 Wa«. Ca^. 4699. 



River bank 



P^^^^JL^anks in Bengal and Northern India: marshes of Peshawer ; warm valleys 



01 the Himalaya nknown south of the Nerbudda).— Distrib. throughout the Nortii 

 temperate zone. * • 



ofew l-3ft., >' en stout, fleshy and branched, rarely puberulous above. Leaces 

 TOU cuneate cut segments, cauline sessile. Flowers l~l in. diam. SepaU retloxed, 

 nearly equalling the oblong petals. Recepacle oblong, hairy. 



•, Leaves deeply divided. Achenes flattened, with an intramarginal 

 nt>r (bee 20, muncalus.) 



15. R. 



achenes 



/ 



.; diffusus, DC; diffuse or prostrate, liairy, leaves 3-partite, 

 in globose heads dotted, receptacle of fruit small. Don Prodr. 195 ; 



7)/v« D 7' • -"*"^- '^"- ^^ napauiensis, 

 j!,<^ Prodr, m. R. geranioides. Blume k 



7vT%'"«V^*- -K. geranioides, ^/?me ^iVrfr. 2. K. liydrocotyloiaes, nau. 

 g 4/03 ; 11. nioUis, Wall. Cat. 4704 : Don in RoyU III. 5:?. K obtectus. 

 K ^«^- ^705. R vitif„lins. Uovle JR. .53. K, suboinnatus, W. & A. 



Temp 



H.f. 



tains of tl''^\r"^^''^*' *'™™ ^^^ Chenab to BLotaii, .ilt. (5-10,000 ft. Higher niouu. 



Perpn • 1 "^^■^^KN Pesinsula. — DisTKiB. Sumatra, Java, 

 liairv c ' '^"^'^'■ed with spreading hairs ; nodes at times rooting. Leaves soltly 

 or lpaf!!^'°'°*,^ cuneate, of lower leaves often stalked. Ptdandes 1-flowered, terminal 

 *ith fti?^-''?^'^- ^^"--er* I- lin. diam. ASepaZs hairy. Jc/te/ifS ovale, compressed, 

 straiaU „' 1 "f *';S'"«1 "b at a variable distance from the acute margin; stjie short 

 leaves IjJ ^°°^^<i— Peninsula specimens have usually larger flowers and more divided 



Tempe 



Common on Vi^a inner ranges only of 



W«2.T" "'"; Affghanistan. , , . 



"^'ite-T!/-'^?'!^- '^'«"» 1-2 ft., usually much branched, many-floweroJ ; hairs 



T 





pi,'-. ^■'v 



I - 





Cat. 

 fl. 



cuii 



^'•'i'. /c. P^. lY. t. 661. 



Ranun- 



V 



h ^ 



n r J h ^ 



,,. . . -..■*■.- 



C2 



: ^ 



L f •\-\ 



' 'x- - 



- V ; 



:S 



.-'\ 





H - 



■-,-'J^-. ^">V .:■.'■ 



" ^ 



't^ ^ 



j.^ 



