850 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, ErReot, with ALTERNATE ExstreuLATE LoBED LEAVES. 
Ranunculus letus, 
Buttercup, 
RANUNCULACE. 
H...B. od. 1.09; 
Himalaya, 
4-8,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley. 
Ranunculus 
muricatus, 
Ranunculus 
arvensis, 
Corn Buttercup, 
Chambal. 
RANUNCULACES. 
Boa. 20: 
Himalaya, 
4-7,000 ft. 
Simla, in cornfields 
(Collett). 
Kashmir, 
Pathankot, 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Delphinium 
uncinatum, 
RANUNCULACES. 
F. B. 1.1. 24. 
Himalaya, west 
of the Jhelum, 
9-7,000 ft. 
Salt Range. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
medium size, perennial, covered with flat-lying hairs, 
rootstock woody, leaves radical 2-4 in. diam., long- 
stalked, deeply 38-lobed, segments deeply cut, sharply 
toothed, stem leaves smaller, shortly stalked, flowers 1 in. 
diam., bright yellow, long-stalked, sepals hairy, achenes 
in round heads, smooth, flattened, not dotted, margins 
thickened ; for other characters see the last species. This 
plant is closely allied to Ranunculus acris of Britain. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
small to medium size, annual, pale green, slightly 
hairy only on the upper parts, leaves radical, 1-8 in. diam., 
long-stalked, soon withering, wedge-shaped or ovate with a 
broad tip, 2-3-toothed or lobed, stem leaves shortly stalked, 
deeply divided into 2 or 3 narrow lobes, lobes entire or 
the tip lobed or toothed, flowers 4 in. diam., pale yellow, 
sepals pressed against, and half the length of the petals, 
achenes 5-10, in round heads, flattened, usually covered 
with hooked spines, styles straight or hooked ; for other 
characters see the last species. 
medium size, annual, or perennial, almost smooth, few- 
leaved, branched, or not ; leaves radical 2in., deeply divided 
into 5 parts, segments deeply divided, stem leaves smaller ; 
flowers } in. long, white or bluish-purple in long many- 
flowered densely glandular-hairy or smooth racemes, 
sepals 5, petal-like, free, the upper one prolonged behind 
in a hooked blunt swollen spur, others flat, petals 4, 2 
upper each prolonged as a spur within the spurred sepals, 
blade small, 2 lateral petals flat, stalked, blades smaller 
than the sepals, stamens many, flattened at the base, 
tapering upwards ; follicles 8, many -seeded, tipped with the 
persistent styles, seeds wrinkled or folded. Allied to the 
Larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis of Britain, 
