RANUNCULACE^. 3 



conspicuously raised on the lower side, impressed on the 

 upper. Panicles of flowers up to 12 inches, or more ; buds 

 globular of strongly veined sepals ; flowers when fully 

 open 2 inches across. Sepals four, yellow or cream- 

 coloured above, pale or yellowish green on the back. No 

 petals. Stamens very numerous, hairy below the middle, 

 widening at the top to the anthers which open laterally. 

 Carpels very silky with styles of about % inch forming 

 a close fagot in the centre, becoming in fruit achenes 

 with feathery style I inch or more long, when quite ripe, 

 t. 1. Wight Sp. Nilg. t. 30, Ic. t. 955. 



On thickets and small trees on the edges of sholas. Nilgiris 

 near Ootacamund, flowering November-February ; Avalanche. 

 Pulneys below Kodaikanal. Fyson 674, 201 1. Bourne 1553. 



Gen. Dist. Higher levels of the Western Ghats, Mableshwar (Dalzell !). 

 Nearest ally appears to be C. sinensis of Ceylon. 



Clematis munroana Wight ; F.B.I, i 3, under C. smi- 

 lacifolia Wall. ; I 6 ; a climber with three-glabrous, five to 

 seven-nerved, entire leaflets to the leaf; and large white 

 flowers in stalked cymes of three : occurs at Coonoor and 

 near Shembaganur and may possibly be found occasion- 

 ally at higher levels. Bourne 400. 



C. smilacifolia IValL, a Himalayan species with which this 

 is united in F.B.I., has dark purple almost black flowers, but 

 agrees in having the backs of the sepals brown-tomentose and 

 in other respects 



ANEMONE. F.B.I. I III. 



Perennial herbs with an involucre of two or three leafy 

 bracts a little below the flowers ; white or coloured sepals 

 but no petals ; and numerous one-ovuled carpels ripening 

 into achenes with hardened, hook-like style. 



Species about 90 in temperate regions and mountains of 

 the tropics ; a few only in South America, South Africa, and 

 Australia. 



Named from the Greek, anemos, wind, becatise 7nost European species 

 ^row in windy places or flower at a windv time of the year, spring. 



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