0 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
i : i i i ter given of R. 
iol : sh te: heads: of fruit 6. R. pinnatus (Poir). The charact : 
Sita k Tc perbreg lg style straight, - Wallichianus, is nearly applicable to this species, with 
or slightly hooked at the apex. : 
: y it To h 
Ceylon, plains of Nuera Eilia in marshy and low rently of little value in this species, as the clothing 
asiures. . eid varies in degree on both Ceylon and Continental speci- 
Iam informed by Colonel Walker that he has also- mens, 
found it on Horton plains,.at a considerably greater 
elevation, where the plants become smaller, the lobes smooth, achenia, 
of the leaves less developed, and altogether more like 
R, reniformis, = 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
Ist.—RanuNcULACEZ. ech 2d.—RaNuncvnacen. 
1. Clematis Munroiana, branch, with leaves and 1, Ranunculus reniformis, natural size.—2. Recepta- 
flowers, natural size.—2. Receptacle, with ovaries, cle, showing stamens and ovaries, the sepals and petals 
styles and stamens showing the different series of the removed.—3. A detached petal showing the nectarial 
latter magnified.—3. Back and front view of filament scale at the base.—4. Back and front view of _the 
and anther magnified.—4. Receptacle cut vertically,x— — anthers,—5, Ovar detached.—6, Carpel cut vertical- 
5. Ovary, with its attached feathery style, much mag-, ly. All more or less magnified. 
nified. : ee ee =a ; 
apex : anthers adnate 2 celled, either elongated and bursting longitudinally, or short with the cells 
united at the tip only, and placed transversely across the dilated point of the filament. Pistils defi. 
nite in number, ovaries, usually, from 3 to 5, but sometimes numerous, rarely solitary, more or less 
united, and terminated each by a straight style and truncated or toothed stigma ; ovules, fre- 
quently numerous, sometimes reduced to.two, or even one, pendulous or erect, 
of as many one-celled carpels as there were ovaries, either altogether distinct 
-cohering, Seeds usually, by abortion, few or solitary,attached in a double row to the inner edge | 
© minute, lying at the 
_ Handsome flowering trees or shrubs, are the most 
_ of the former affording excellent timber, th 
Tages 
‘lowers often yellow. 
Arrinirizs. The affinity existing iy Dilleniages and Ranunculacee has been alre ie 
: in to Magnoliacee, from which they ar, distinguished b 
the absence of stipules, ( Wormia excepted) by their persistent cily’x and “a € distinguished by 
ae by ey Ne same characters as those which separate 
: 4 ; ty, the persistent calyx an i irangemen h 
envelopes ; but in both, the leaves are exstipulate, — one gree ee eam 
Essentrat. Craracter. Flowers 
more or less distinct, or solitar 
a, 
; polypetalons, polyandrous, ovaries wholly superior; 
except Wormi 
y: embryo minute: seeds with an aril, leaves exstipulate, 
