

floha indica. [Ranunculacete 



Nipal 



partitis, pedicellis brevibus supra medium involucratis, filamentis elon- 

 gatis e basi plana filiformibus glabris.— Wall. Cat. 4680 ! C. montana, 

 Don, Prodr. 192 ; non alior. 



Hab. In Himalaya temperata ; Garhwal ! Kumaon ! Nipal ! Bhotan ! 

 — (VI Dec. Mart.) (v. v.) 



Rami glabrati ; juniores angulato-sulcati, seniores rotundati. Folia longe petio- 

 lata, interdum puberula, segmentis oblougo-lanceolatis vel linearibus integerrimis vel 

 parce dentatis lateralibus interdum trilobis vel tripartitis. Pedicelli numerosi, foliis 

 breviores, supra medium bibracteati. Bractece in involucrum breve cupuliforme 

 acute bilabiatum connatse. Pedicelli supra involucrum incrassati, dense sericei. 

 Sepala 4, oblonga, vix semi-uncialia, extus dense adpresse sericea, intus glabra. 

 Achenia compressa, dorso gibbosa, parce sericea. 



The young bud is sessile within the involucre, but the upper part of the pedicel 



gradually elongates, so that when the fruit is ripe the involucre is nearly in the 

 middle. 



5. C. montana (Ham. ex DC. Syst. i. 164); foliis ternatisectis, 

 pedicellis nudis folia aequantibus vel superantibus, staminibus sepalis 

 dimidio brevioribus, filamentis planis anguste ligulatis glabris. — BO. 

 Prod. i. 9 ; Wall. Cat. 4681 ! ; Plant. As. Par. iii. t. 217 1 0. Pun- 

 duana, Wall. Cat. 4682 ! C. anemoniflora, Bon, Prod. 192. Anemone 

 curta, Wall. Cat. 4690 ! 



Hab. Per totam Himalayam temperatam et subalpinam, alt. 6000- 

 12,000 ped. ; exceptis jugis exterioribus Sikkim, ubi non infra 10,000 



(v. V.) 



Rami 



occurnt 



(Fl. vere.) 



glabrati vel rarius adpresse sericei. Folia longe petiolata ; foliola ovata 

 obtusa acuta vel acuminata, grosse dentata vel lobata. Flores majusculi, interdum 

 maximi, suaveolentes. Sepala 1-1 J-uncialia, elliptica vel ovata, alba, obtusa vel acu- 

 minata, nervosa, glabrata vel extus adpresse pilosa. Achenia sericea longe caiulata. 

 The most beautiful of all the Indian species, but extremely variable. The larger- 

 flowered forms are very sweet-scented, and when in flower, in April and May, visible 

 from a great distance, forming dense white patches in the thickets on the hill-sides. 



Sect. 3. Flammula, DC. — Achenia plumoso-caudata. Flores pa- 



niculati (rarissime abortu subsolitarii). 



§ 1. 



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6. C. smilacifolia (Wall, in As. Researches, xiii. 414) ; glaber- 

 rima, foliis maximis simplicibus late ovatis rarius ternatipartitis. — 

 BO. Prod. i. 10; Wall. Cat. 4683!; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4259! C. 

 subpeltata, Wall. Plant. As. Par. t. 20. Cat. 4684 ! C. Munroiana, 

 Wight, 111. L B. U 1. C. affinis, Wight, III. i. 5. C. smilacina, Blmne, 

 Bijd. 1. C. glandulosa, Blume, Bijd. 1 ? 



Hab. In provinciis humidioribus ; in montibus inferioribus Sikkim !, 

 a basi ad 5000 ped. alt. ; Khasia, 2-5000 ; in montibus Concau, 

 Sykes! Nilghiri, Munro ! Travancor et Dindigal, Wight! Ceylon, 

 Thwaites t Ava, Wall A— (FL Jun. Aug.) (v. v.) 



Distrib. Java, Blume; Timor, Spanoghe. 



