Ranunculus. | ANONACEE (Sond.) 7 
4, R. capensis (Thunb. Cap. p. 442); small, subsimple, villous ; 
radical leaves few, 3-lobed or 3-parted, with wedgeshaped trifid seg- 
ments ; stem-leaves one or two, petiolate, 3-parted and cut ; flower- 
stalks opposite the leaves, slender, one flowered ; sepals spreading ; 
fruits orbicular, subcompressed, margined, quite smooth, with a short 
style. Eck. & Zey. ! En. No. 13. 
Has. In moist places, amo: . Aug. Sep. Among the 7 ia Caput 
Meduse, at stores Canes: Beklon. / WH / es fe Clawilion, 
E. &. Z.1 (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.) 
small annual. Radical leaves 3 or 6. Stems scapelike, 3-6 inches high, 
“orem longer than the root-leaves ; mostly bearing 1~2 leaves and a solitary small 
ower. 
5. R. sceleratus (Linn.) ; glabrous, erect, panicled ; radical leaves on 
long petioles, roundish, tripartite, with wedgeshaped, incised, obtuse 
lobes ; stem-leaves tripartite, sessile ; sepals reflexed ; fruits subrotund, 
smooth, in an oval-oblong head ; receptacle hairy. DC. Prod. 1. p. 34. 
£. Bot, t. 68. 
Has. Wet ditches, near Capetown (introduced ) in Sep.—Oct. 
Enumerated by Ecklon and Zeyher, as having been found “on the banks of the 
Zwartkops River, Uitenhage ;” but the specimen so ticketed in Ecklon’s Herbarium 
(now Herb. Sonder.) belongs to R. pinndtus. I have seen this plant formerly in 
ditches near Capetown, but neglected to preserve specimens. It is a very common 
European and Asiatic weed. ; 
6. R. Meyeri (Harv.) ; nearly glabrous, creeping by runners ; radical 
leaves on long petioles, fleshy, cordate or reniform, crenate, glabrous ; 
petioles villous ; peduncles scapelike, one flowered ; sepals reflexed ; 
petals several, linear-lanceolate, acute ; fruits smooth, ovate, subcarinate, 
Shortly beaked. Ficaria radicans, E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege. 
oe Kat-berg, in grassy places 3-4000 ft. November. Drege / (Herb. T.C.D., 
00 x, s . e 
Crown emitting prostrate runners which root at the joints. Petioles 2-3 inches 
me 2 more or less hairy ; leaves few. Scapes about as long as the leaves, quite 
Carpels few, convex. This has much of the habit of a Casalea. 
Orver Il. ANONACEZ:. Rich. 
Anone, Juss. Gen. 283. Anonacew, Rich—DC. Prod. 1. p. 83.— 
Endl Gen. Pl. No. clxxiv. Lindl. Veg. King. clii.) 
Flowers perfect, or rarely unisexual. Sepals 3, hypogynous, mostly 
valvate in the bud, separate or united at base. Petals six, in two 
rows (rarely only three, or altogether wanting,) valvate or imbricate, 
separate or united at base. Stamens very numerous, in many rows ; 
filaments very short ; anthers consolidated with the thickened and 
produced apex of the filament, erect, two celled, opening longitudi- 
nally. Durie numerous (rarely definite or solitary,) sessile, separate _ 
or cohering, one celled ; ovules one or several, sutural, 
styles scarcely any ; stigmas separate or united. Fruit various : ca 
_ sessile or stalked, separate, or confluent into a multicellula 
