FLORA OF BOMBAY. 



OnBER I. RANUNCULACE^. 



Annual or perennial herbs, more rarely shrubs. Leaves radical or 

 alternate (opposite in Clematis and Naravelia), entire or divided ; 

 stipules 0, or adnate to the petioles, rarely free. Elowers regular 

 (irregular in Del/iJiinhim), 1-2-sexual, rarely bracteate. Sepals 3-many, 

 (usually 5), often petaloid, imbricate (valvate in Clematis). Petals 

 imbricate, isomerous with the sepals or many, hypogynous, free, some- 

 times minute or deformed or 0. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous ; 

 anthers usually adnate and dehiscing laterally. Carpels many, rarely 

 solitary, free or rarely subcounate, 1-celled ; ovules 1 or more on the 

 ventral sutui-e, anatropous, erect with a veutral raphe, or pendulous 

 with a dorsal raphe ; style simple. Lruit of numerous, dry, 1-seeded, 

 indehiscent acheues, or many-seeded follicles, rarely baccate. Seeds 

 small ; albumen copious ; embryo minute. — Distbib. Abundant in tem- 

 perate and cold regions ; genera 30 ; species about 500. 



Climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite. 



Flowers apetalous ; terminal leaflet not transformed into 



a tendril 1. Clematis. 



Flowers with petals and sepals; terminal leaflet usually 



transformed into a tendril 2. Naravelia. 



Herbs ; leaves alternate. 

 Flowers regular. 



Sepals petaloid 3. Tiialictrum. 



Sepals herbaceous 4. Eanunculus. 



Flowers irregular ; posterior sepal spurred 5. Delphinium. 



1. CLEMATIS, Linn. 



Woody undershrubs, usually climbing. Leaves opposite, usually com- 

 pound, exstipulate ; petioles often twining but not changed into tendrils. 

 Inflorescence axillary or terminal ; flowers solitary or panieled. Sepals 

 usually 4 (rarely 5-8), petaloid, imbricate or valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 

 many. Carpels many; ovule 1, pendulous. Pruit a head of sessile or 

 stalked achenes ; style persistent, naked or bearded. — Distbib. All tem- 

 perate regions ; less common in the tropics ; species 180. 



Filaments glabi'ous. 



Flowers exceeding 1 in. in diam. 



Leaves large ; flowers purple 1. C. smilacifolia. 



Leaves small ; flowers white 2. C. triloba. 



Flowers less than 1 in. in diam. 



Connective of anthers not produced 3. C. Gouriana. 



Connective of anthers much produced 4. C. hcdysarifolia. 



Filaments hairy ; flowers yellow ft. C. Wic/htiana. 



