Plants of the Punjab. 445 
Herps, UNBRANCHED, WiTtH OpposITE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
PETALS NONB, 
than the outer, sometimes longer, stamens 8-12, style 
divided almost to the base into 4-5 erect short arms with 
curved tips ; capsule 1 in. diam., yellow-brown, 4-5-valved, 
seeds many, ovoid, scarlet. 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH OpposITE ExsTIPULATE LOBED LEAvVsEs. 
Callianthemum 
cachemirianum, 
RANUNCULACES. 
fess, La. V4. 
Himalaya, 
9-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Trollius acaulis, 
RANUNCULACES. 
FE. B.E. 1..22. 
Himalaya, 
11-13,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Isopyrum 
thalictroides, 
RANUNCULACER. 
B-Be 1.1.28. 
Himalaya, 
Lahul. 
Corydalis rutzfolia, 
FUMARIACE®, 
E. Buksig 22. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree (Douie). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
small, perennial, stemless, densely tufted, smooth, 
with waxy bluish-green gloss, root fibrous ; leaves all radi- 
cal, pinnately divided into deeply cut rounded segments, 
long-stalked ; flowers 1-14 in. diam., white, on one-flowered 
stalks, 2-4 in., shorter than the leaves, sepals 5, soon fall- 
ing off, broadly rounded, petals 8-12, 3 times larger than 
the sepals, a pit at the base, oblong-wedge-shaped, broadly 
notched, stamens many ; fruits few, large ovoid; achenes 
tipped by the short style. 
small, perennial, rootstock stout, fibres thick, stem 
8-6 n., longer in fruit; base clothed with thick fibres, 
leafy above the middle ; leaves radical, long-stalked, deeply 
palmately divided, lobes oblong-lanceolate, stem leaves 
1 to 8, similar, base of stalk sheathing; flowers 2 
in. diam., solitary, sepals 6-8, broad, oval, blunt or entire, 
spreading, petals 12-16, blade oblong, stamens very many ; 
carpels many, 1 inch long when ripe, thin, wrinkled, 
Style persistent. 
small, perennial, rootstock horizontal, fibrous or scaly, 
stem 4-8 in., slender ; leaves radical, much divided, seg- 
ments 2-38-lobed, wedge-shaped at the base, thin, stem 
leaves alternate, 3-lobed ; flowers $ in. diam., white, in 
few-flowered terminal branching racemes, sepals 5-6, oval, 
blunt, petals 5, very small, with a thread-like stalk, hooded, 
stamens 10 or more; follicles 2-4, oval, beaked by the 
style. 
small, perennial, rootstock slender, stem 3-8 in. ; leaves 
2 or 8, pinnately divided, segments with 3 leaflets, nearly 
sessile ; flowers 3-1 in., bright purple, tips dark, in 6-12 
flowered racemes, bracts oblong or lanceolate, leaf-hke, 
sepals 2, small, scale-like, petals 4, outer petals dissimilar, 
upper one broad, concave, produced at the base into a 
hollow spur about half as long as the petal, spur blunt, 
lower one flat, narrow, inner petals narrow, keeled, their 
