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the base, glabrous, coarsely toothed, teeth rounded and tipped with a point: 
panicles few-flowered; flowers bisexual: filaments slightly club-shaped: 
anthers linear-oblong, awnless: ovaries 15-20: achenia stalked, erect, deeply 
furrowed, terminated by the hooked persistent style.— Wight / cat. n. 8.—— 
Sent from the mountains, but it is uncertain whether from the Neelgherries 
or the Dindygul range. 
IV. ANEMONE.  Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 496 ; Gertn. fr. t. 74. 
Involuere 3-leaved, distant from the flower, the leaflets variously cut. 
Sepals 5-15, petaloid, imbricated in sestivation. Petals 0. Stamens nume- 
rous. Achenia numerous. Seed pendulous.—Herbaceous plants with a per- 
ennial root. Leaves radical, stalked, more or less cut or lobed. Scape, 
when branched, bearing involucres at each of its divisions. 
The following belong to a section called Anemonospermos, in which the achenia 
are slightly compressed, and have no feathery tail; several pedicels spring from the 
involucre, one of them naked, the others with a 2- or rarely 3-leaved involucel, and 
are sometimes again similarly divided. 
_ €. (1) A. dubia (Wall. :) clothed with silky hairs: leaves tripartite; divi- 
sions deeply 3-cleft ; segments cuneate-ovate, bluntish, more or less lobed, 
sharply serrated: involucral leaves subsessile, deeply 3-cleft; the divisions 
left; segments linear-oblong, cut and serrated: sepals about 7, cuneate- 
ovate, obtuse: achenia glabrous: style hooked, persistent.— Wall. ! L. n. 
4698; Wight! cat. n. 10.—— Neelgherries. à 
7. (2) Wightiana (Wall.:) clothed with silky hairs: leaves on very long 
petioles, tripartite; divisions very deeply 3-cleft ; segments cuneate, deeply 
3-lobed ; lobes cuneate, irregularly inciso-serrated: involucral leaves sub- 
sessile, deeply 3-cleft; divisions 3-cleft; segments linear-oblong, cut and 
Serrated: sepals 6-8, elliptic-oblong: achenia glabrous: style hooked, per- 
Sistent.— Wall.! L. n. 4697 s Wight ! cat. n. 9, 11. Neelgherries. i 
Much larger and coarser in all its parts than the last: future observations 
may, however, prove them to be the same species. 
V. ADONIS. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 498; Gertn. fr. t. 74. 
Involucre none. Sepals 5, erect, sometimes free at the base externally, 
imbricated in æstivation. Petals 5-15, the claw naked. Stamens numerous. 
Achenia numerous, arranged upon the more or less elongated receptacle, 
tipped with the short style. Seed pendulous.—Herbaceous caulescent plants. 
Cauline leaves pinnate, divisions multifid, segments linear and very nume- 
Tous. Flowers solitary at the extremity of the stem or branches, yellow or 
red, never blue. 
8. (1) A. estivalis (Linn. :) annual : petals oblong, obtuse ; achenia glabrous, 
wrinkled d in an elongated spike: style straight.—DC. prod. 1. 
p.24; Spr. syst. 2. p. 645 ; Wight! cat. n. 12.——Neelgherries. 
VI. RANUNCULUS. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 498; Gortn. fr. t. 74 — 
Sepals 5, not free at the base, deciduous, imbricated in estivation. Petals 
5, rarely 10 or more, the claw furnished inside with a nectariferous con- 
cave little scale. Stamens and styles numerous. Achenia ovate, pointed, 
Somewhat compressed. Seed erect.—Herbaceous plants with annual or per- 
ennial roots. Leaves mostly radical ; cauline ones placed at the base of the 
branches and peduncles. 
9. (1) R. reniformis (Wall.:) erect, hairy: radical leaves roundish ovate, 
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