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^ S. vestltus, Wall Ca^^*. 4707. The specimens consist of a few long-petioled radical 



A Mbosus, L. (H.f.ilc T.Fl. Ind. 37). Probably intercalated by mistake amongst 

 «oyie 8 Indian Plants. It has been found by no one else. 



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8. OXTGRAFKZS, Bunge. 



Dwarf perennial glabrous stemless plants, with 1 -flowered scapes. Leaves 



in? P 7 ''* ''*^o"l*'*- yellow. Sepals 5, persistent, enlarged after flower- 



E- retals 10-15, with a nectariferous pit on the claw. Stamens many. 



J[™ many, membranous, in a globose head, beaked by the straiglit subu- 



persistent style. Seed erect. —A genus of 2 species, differing from 



^nKnc«^ m the persistent sepals. ^. ,-:/..ui:.v.s ?., ; 





sJ'f. 8^'^cialis, 5M«(7e ^n. Fl. Alt. 35; leaves elliptic-oblong, scape 

 solitary. ^./. ^ -yr^ ^^^ j^^ 27. Ficaria glacialis, i^'iscA. 



RonhT^'^''^'^^^- Kumaon, ^/-ac^ew <6 FFiwferZ.. ; Sikkim, alt. 16-18,000 ft., 



fiepala. 



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poiypetala, 5^./. <C' J'. Fl Ind 27 ; leaves orbicular crenate-lobed, 



SSr^^^y ^^^^'■^1- Kannnculus polypetalus, Foi/le III 54, t H, f. 2. 

 ^-^^nthemum EnrlbVl.Ar; titv./^ 7^.1^ ;oq V * • - 





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«ordat^ ^z^5" ^•*^"* creeping rootstocks. Leaves chiefly radical, ovate or 



v«»ue. J^ iMcers i c^-oT +o,.^;^«i ..„ 1 k:*„ „- »r«H^w .C,o»j/77.« .'> or more. 



Petaloirl A -T'" ^'^w, terminal, regular, wnite or yeuow. aj^'"^ u ^1 ^v..^, 

 sessilp ' S.^;}^"^^^, imbricate. Feials 0. >S'tome«s many. Carpels several, 

 nem Snli.^ ^ . "'^°y' many-seeded. ^See^^s many, 2-seriate, with a promi- 

 rapfie and thick funicle.-DiSTRiB. N. and & temp, regions ; sp. 5-6. 



^itii ^n£^^**^**» ^^''^^^- ; stem branched leafy, leaves reniform or deltoid 

 195 Zj^m^ ^^^^^- ^'/ ^ ^- -^'^- ^^i^- 40. C. Himal( ' " "" ''" 



C. pani- 



»-io^Vft in'^* '^^STERN Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nipal; alt. 



^otstnpi „♦ !'^'!'"- 'J'«mperate Europe, Asia, and N. America. . : _ 



^-5 in.dLm 1 ^^''^'^'y fi^™»«- -^''c^ «tout, 6-24 in. Eadical leaves long-petioled, 



-2 in. diam. 



"fiicie, 3- ,7"™ '"• finely or coarsely toothed; upper sessile. ±'U>wer> i-z in. am.... 

 •J'an 8^ * '" "'^'"^er and lengtk of stvle.-Tlie leaves are never quite entire lu 

 Vau. P'"'«"«. and are often more closely- and smaller-toothed than m European. 

 Y V "ofWftZM; flower vellow.; .< Ix^O;"^ .^1 _ . . . 



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