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Temperate Western HimalayaSj Kashmir, Jacquemont ; Kishtwar, alt. 8000 ft., 



T. Thomson. . 



BooUtoch tuberous. Flowerivg stems 12-18 in. high, slender, simple or subumoel- 

 lately branched. Leaves 1^-3 in. diam., segments very spreading, radical on very lonff 

 Blender petioles; stipules variable. Inflorescence subumbelled, with an involucre oi 

 shortly petioled leaves : peduncles and pedicels erect, clothed with long spreading glan- 

 dular hairs; bracts leafy, pinnatifid. Flowers 1 in. diam. Sepals^ elliptic, small, 

 obtuse, apiculate, narrowly margined. Petals large, obcordate, ciliate at the very 

 base. Filaments very slender throughout their length. Fruit 1|-14 in., erect, bairy; 

 carpels not wrinkled ; styles very short. Seeds smooth. — There is no trace of the beaks 

 being separable from the axis, though the valves are removable.— A very curious 

 species. 



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Jlowers STnaUj in axillary peduncles, fruiting pedicels dejk\ 



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13. G.pusUlum, Linn,; DC. Prodr. i. 642; prostrate, very slender, 

 much branched, pubescent, leaves reniform-orbicular deeply 5-9-lobed or 

 partite segments cuneate 3-lobed, petals obcordate scarcely exceeding 

 the mucronate sepals, carpels smooth, seeds smooth. Boiss, FL Orienu 

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Western Temperate Himalaya; Kashmir, P'alconer; Kishtwar, alt. 8000 Hj 

 /, Thomson. — Distuib. Syria aud throughout Europe. 



Very slender and much branched, leafy, slightly glandular above. Leaves 4"^.'^' 

 diam ; stipules short. Floioers \ in. diam., blue-purple, very small. Petals and rM^- 

 ments ciliate at the base. Fruit I in. long. Carpels smooth, hairy. Seeds^ery minutei) 



granulate. 



14. G. rotundlfolium, Linn.; DC. Prodr. i. 643; suberect with ve^; 

 slender spreading branches, glandular-hairy, leaves reniform 7-fid seg- 

 ments broad obtusely lobulate, petals cuneate entire exceeding the calyx, 

 carpels smooth, seeds deepdy pitted. Bdss. Fl. Orient i. 880. G. po^en- 

 tilloides, Klotzsch in Reise Pr, Waldem. 123, 1. 17. - 



Panjab at Peshawar, Vicarv ; and Hooshiarpore, Aitcheson; Western Temperate 

 Himalaya, alt. 6 9000 ft. ; Kashmir, Falconer; Jamu, Thomson; Garwhal, alt. iSW" 

 ft., Strach. & Winter.— Di^T^m, Siberia and Eastward to Europe and N. ^i'?^^,. - 



Very slender. Leaves 4-1 4 in. diam. ; petioles very slender. Flowers i i". a^^^' 

 Petals red, glabrous. Fruit § in. long. 



15. 6. moUe, Linn.; DC Prodr. I 643; stems rather stout diffuse^ 

 ascending softly villous and glandular, leaves orbicular palmately ^"^'^ 

 lobes cuneate obtusely lobulated, petals obcordate exceeding the sep 

 carpels obliquely wrinkled, seeds smooth. Boiss. Ft. Orient, i 882. ^ 



Temperate Western Himalaya; Kishtwar, 6-9000 ft., Thomson; Kcmaok, 

 1500 it., Madden,— DirnKva. Westward to Europe and N. Africa. . Affcha- 



A common European weed, possibly introduced into India, but also found in -^o^^j 

 nistan and Persia ; more robust than the two preceding species, readily "'^l^"^ ^j^oui 

 by the wrinkled carpels, smooth seeds, purple petals cihate at the base, ana SV . ^ 

 filaments. 



Sect. 4. Peduncles 2-flowered. -F^owvr-Jw^s pyramidal. ^'?/^^^^^^„y^^ 

 cordate at the base, acuminate, not abruptly awnei— Annual or bienm 



^16. e. Robertianum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. I 644; ^pf\^^\t 

 l^ranched, pubescent or hairy, leaves triangular-oblong ^:f^}^ pjicels 

 teruatisect segments incised ox pinnatifid, peduncles slender, P^ , j^j 

 *.*v*.x„4t^„ petals twice as'^ long as the sepals clawed, carpels wruu^ 



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