Thaiictrtc7n:\ Ranunculacccs. 3 



3. ANEDKONX:, Z. 



Perennial herbs ; fl. large, in a sparingly branched inflo- 

 rescence, involucrate at base ; sep. imbricate, 5-8 ; pet. o ; 

 stam. numerous ; carp, numerous, ovule solitary, pendulous ; 

 fruit a head of beaked achenes. — About 80 species ; 1 5 in Fl. 

 B. Ind. 



A. rivularis, Ham. in DC. Syst. \. 211 (18 18) non Wall. 

 Thw. Enum. i. C. P. ion. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 9. Wight, Ic. 936 {^A. Wightiana). Hook. Ic. Plant. 

 t. T76 (from Ceylon specimens). 



A perennial herb with a woody rootstock clothed with the 

 fibrous remains of former leaves ; whole plant more or less 

 hairy ; radical leaves very long-stalked, tripartite almost tri- 

 foliolate, the segments or Iflts. very deeply cut and serrate ; 

 fl.-stem erect, 1-3 ft. high; inflor. cymose, trichotomous with 

 erect branches, with a pair of opposite leafy tripartite bracts 

 at the base (involucre) with linear segments, and smaller 

 opposite bracts below the branches ; fl. iHn. diam. ; sep. 5-8 

 usually 7, slightly silky externally ; achenes smooth, beaked, 

 with a hooked tip. 



Upper montane zone. Rather rare, but locally abundant as among 

 the grass and bushes of Nuwara Eliya Plain, especially near the stream, 

 and on Horton Plains. Fl. April ; white or bluish. 



In all the higher mountains of the Indian Peninsula, abundant in the 

 Himalayas. 



This pretty plant is the only Anemone which extends into the tropics. 

 It can be successfully grown as a hardy perennial in England, and culti- 

 vated plants are figured in Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 8. 



4. TKAIiZCTRUDX, L. 



Perennial herbs ; fl. small, in a paniculate inflorescence 

 without an involucre; sep. 5, imbricate, petaloid; pet. o ; stam. 

 numerous; carp, numerous, ovule solitary, pendulous ; fruit a 

 head of beaked achenes. — Sp. 50 ; 18 in F/. j5. hid. 



T. javanicum, Bl. Bijd. 2 (1825). 



T. glyptocarpum^ W. & A., Thw. Enum. i. C. P. 2574. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 13. Wight, Ic. t. 48. 



A perennial herb, glabrous throughout ; stems erect, 

 2-4 ft. high, slender, smooth, striate, clothed at base with per- 

 sistent sheaths of petioles of former leaves, often zigzag at the 

 nodes ; 1. on long petioles with amplexicaul membranous bases, 

 triternate or tripinnate, Iflts. on very slender stalks, small, 

 thin, more or less rounded, lobed or coarsely dentate, glau- 



