RANUNCULACE^. 5 



Differs from Anemone in having no involucre of leaves 

 whorled just below the flowers. 



Species about 76 almost all over the world outside tropical 

 climates, more especially in Europe, Asia and America. In 

 India only on the higher mountains where the climate is 

 temperate. 



Thalictrum javanicum Bliime ; F.B.I. i 13 , IV 16 

 (T. glyphocarpum W. & A. !) ; distinguished by its 

 maiden-hair-fern foliage, and tall well-branched stem 

 ending in a loose panicle of fluffy balls of white stamens. 



Stem and branches slender, grooved, glabrous. 

 Leaves ternately decompound, i.e., of three or more 

 pinnas, these again of three or more sub-pinnas, which 

 have three leaflets ; radical leaves a foot long, upper 

 smaller and less compound. Leaflets l^ to I inch, broadly 

 ovate or oval, indented in three or four shallow teeth at 

 the end, thin, glabrous, with veins prominently raised 

 on the lower side. Petiole not sheathing ; stipules 

 thin, fimbriate, adnate to the petioles and standing out 

 like ears. Panicle loose, few flowered ; pedicels % inch, 

 spreading ; bracts small, persistent. Flowers J4 inch 

 across. Sepals soon falling. No petals- Stamens white, 

 thickened upwards ; anthers not pointed. Achenes 

 y^ toYe inch with short, curved beak. t. 3. Wight Ic. 

 t. 48, ex. stamens. 



In damp places. Pulneys : in Kodaikanal in the swamp near 

 Tinnevelly settlement, flowering summer. Nilgiris : on Doda- 

 betta. Not on the Bombay Ghats, north of the Nilgiris. 

 Bourne 300. 



Gen. Dist. Anamalais, Ceylon, Sikkim, Simla and Khasia, Thibet and 

 Java. As grown here the leaves are rather larger than those from Java. 



RANUNCULUS. f.b.i. i vii. 



Buttercup, etc. 

 Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves mostly from the 

 rootstock, those of the flowering stems UvSually small and 



