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wards. Petals none, or shorter than the sepals. Stamens numerous. Ache- 
nia several in each flower, terminated by a long tail. Seed erect.—Perennial 
plants with o posite leaves, which are simple, trifoliate, or once or twice 
pinnate with a terminal leaflet. 
V RANUNCULACEE. —— Nanaveuta 
In the following there is neither involucre nor corolla: the flowers are panicled, 
and the tail of the achenia feathery. 
1. (1) €. Gouriana (Roxb. :) climbing : leaves pinnate or bipinnate ; leaflets 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, cordate at the base, 3- or obscurely 5-nerved, 
entire or with a few coarse serratures: young branches angled, and pe- 
duncles, and oblong achenia pubescent: sepals revolute.—z ; Leaves nearly : 
glabrous, or with the nerves pubescent on the under side.— Wight! cat. n. 1, 
2.a, 3-5.—C. Gouriana, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 670; DC. prod. 1. p. 35 Spr. 
syst. 2. p. 668 ; Wall.! L. n. 4673 (excl. f.)—C. indica, Heyne ! in Roth. nov. 
sp. p. 252.—8 ; Young leaves pubescent or tomentose on the under side— — 
Wight ! cat. n. 2.6.—C. Gouriana, Wall.! L. n. 4673. f.——On the Dindygul- 
hills and Neelgherries. 
+ 2. (2) C. triloba (Heyne:) climbing: lower leaves simple, middle ones 
3-lobed, upper of 3 leaflets; leaves and leaflets ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, 
entire: young branches and peduneles tomentose: panicle somewhat corym- 
bose: sepals oblong-lanceolate, mueronate.— Roth. nov. sp. p. 251; DC. 
prod. 1. p. 8; Spr. syst. 2. p. 668. à 
Probably badly described, and the same with our C. Gouriana £. 
3. (3) C. Wightiana (Wall.:) climbing: leaves pinnate; leaflets not wrinkled, — 
very villous and soft on both sides, coarsely serrated, cordate at the base, — 
sags 3-lobed, the middle lobe the longest, or divided again into 3 ovate- 
late segments: young branches, peduncles, and flat achenia, pubescent: - 
sepals ovate, outside very pubescent, inside glabrous: filaments hairy.— 
Wall.! L. n. 4674; Wight! cat. n. 6—Neelgherries. Low hills on the 
banks of the Kestnah near Bezwarah in the northern Circars. i^ d 
Il. NARAVELIA. DC. 
Involucre none. Sepals 4-5, valvate in sestivation. Petals 6-12, linear, 
thickish, longer than the calyx. Stamens numerous. Achenia several in - 
each flower, furnished with a short stalk about as thick as the achenium. | 
Seed erect.—Perennial climbing plants. Leaves opposite, consisting of two 
leaflets with an intermediate tendril. HR 
4. (1) N. Zeylaniea (DC.:) leaflets broadly ovate, shortly acuminated 
achenia spirally twisted, hairy, with a long feathery tail; stalk longer than - 
broad, glabrous.—DC. prod. 1. p. 10 ; Wall.! L. n. 4687 ; Wight! cat. n.7.— 
Atragene Zeylanica, Linn. ; Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 188 ; fl. Ind. 2. p. 670 ; Spr. syst. 
2. p. 644. ; 
Leaves usually densely pubescent on the under side: in specimens from 
Prome they are quite glabrous. veh 
I. THALICTRUM. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 497. 
Involucre none under the flower. Sepals 4-5, imbricated in sstivation. 
Petals none. Stamens numerous. Achenia several, without a tail, sometimes 
stalked, sometimes longitudinally furrowed. Seed pendulous.—Stems her- 
baceous, never climbing. Leaves usually divided in a thrice-ternate manneT, 
alternate ; petiole with a dilated base. 
5. (1) T. glyphocarpum (W. & A.:) flowers bisexual: leaves triternate; 
the sheaths at their base reniform, 3-lobed, fringed ; stipellee none at the di- 
visions of the petiole ; leaflets wedge-shaped, roundish, slightly cordate at 
