4 I. KANUNCULACEiE, 



1. Naravelia zeylanica, DC. Syst. v. 1 (1818) p. 167. A climbing 

 shrub. Leaves 2-foliolate, the third or terminal leaflet having been 

 transformed into a long slender tendril which terminates in three 

 pointed, hooked branches ; leaflets broadly ovate, acuminate, often 

 unequal at the base, entire or rarely coarsely toothed, pubescent beneath ; 

 petioles Ig-Sg in. long. Flowers small, ^-| in. in diam. Sepals 4-5, 

 ovate-oblong, densely pubescent externally, caducous. Petals 6-12, 

 linear-spat hulato, usually a little longer than the sepals, rilaments 

 ligulate, glabrous ; connective produced. Achenes shortly stalked, hairy, 

 with long feathery tails. Fl. B. I. v, 1, p. 7; Grab. Cat, p. 1 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 1 ; Trim.Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 2; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 2 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 120 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, 

 p. 317. — Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



Kanaka: Law I ; moist forests, Talbot ; DiTimana, on the Kuinpta and Sirsi Eoad 

 (N. Kanaia), }]'oodrow\ S. M. CoiKaiiv: DLarwar districts, Lawl Balzcll S^- Gibson 

 (Bo. Fl. 1. c.) gi\e as the hiibitat of this plant " Southern Ghats onlj-." The specimens 

 I have seen were obtained from Kanara and the Dharwar districts. — Distrib. Ceylon, 

 Java. 



3. THALICTRUM, Linn. 



Erect herbs with a perennial root. Leaves compound ; petioles 

 sheathing, often auricled or stipulate. Flo\Aers usually small, panicled 

 or racemed, often polygamous. Sepals 4-5, petaloid, imbricate in bud. 

 Petals 0. Stamens many. Carpels usually many; ovule 1, pendulous. 

 Fruit a small head of sessile or stalked achenes ; style persistent or 

 deciduous, ecaudate. — Distrib. Temperate regions of the N. hemisphere ; 

 a few in tropical India and the Caj)e ; species 50. 



1. Thalictrum Dalzellii, Hool: Ic. PI. v. 9 (1852) t. 868. A rigid 

 plant, about 1 ft. high ; stem and branches slender, grooved, light- 

 colored, glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate (except the uppermost which are 

 usually 1-foliolate) ; leaflets 1-2 in, in diam., glabrous, pale beneath, 

 suborbicular or reniform, with a deep acute sinus (uppermost subsessile), 

 margins crenately and irregidarly lobed and toothed ; nei'ves and veins 

 prominent on both surfaces; petioles of lower leaves I2-2 in. long, 

 deeply grooved, glabrous; petiolules ^-l in. long; stipules § in. long, 

 oblong, membranous, strongly nerved. Flowers \ in. in diam,, in small 

 leafy panicles crowded at the ends of the branches. Sepals 4, nerved, 

 oblong, obtuse, as long as the stamens. Filaments filiform ; anthers 

 muticous. Achenes less than ^ in. long, many in each head, shortly 

 stalked, narrow-oblong, deeply furrowed, glabrous, with a hooked tip. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 13 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 2; Woodr. in Joiu-n. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 120.— Flowers : Aug. 



A rare plant found in a few mountainous districts. Konkan : Ghats, SiocJcsl, 

 Bahell ! ; Ghats near Vingorla, Lalzell. Deccan : Purandhar, Cooke !, Woodrow ! ; 

 Harishchandar, Dalzell cj- Gibson. 



4. RANUNCULUS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, often acrid herbs. Leaves entire or divided. 

 Flowers white, yellow or red, terminal, solitary or panicled, rarely 

 axillary and sessile. Sepals 3-5, caducous. Petals as many or more 

 numerous, with a basal, nectariferous pit or scale. Stamens usually 



