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flora indica. [Ranunculacea 



Rami graciles, sulcati. Folia longe petiolata, integra vel srcpius 3-secta; foliola 

 conacea, retieulato-venosa, 3-4 uncias longa, l|-2 lata, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata 

 acuminata basi rotundata vel cordata, integerriraa vel subserrata. Panicula decom- 

 posite. Bractea ssepius minutse, sed iuterduin foliacerc. Pedicelli longi, graciles. 

 Alabastri cylindracei. Sepala erecta, oblonga, 4-5 lineas longa, subacuta, margine 



pncsertim puberula. Filamenta ad antheram usque longe sericeo-pilosa. Achenia 

 sericea. 



Sp 



loascefolia 



Described from a flowerless specimen, is indeterminable, but must be either C. 

 grewiaflora or C. Wightiana. C. loasifolia of Don, Prod. 191, is also indetermi- 

 nable without an authentic specimen, but it is probably a form of C. Bnchananiana. 



Mus. Par.) 



scabioscefc 



(Herb. 



3. C. villosa (DC. Syst. i. 154, Prod. i. 7); in India? (Herb. Mus. 



Paris.) 



4. C. comosa (DC. Syst. i. 156, Prod. i. 8) ; in Ind. Or. (Herb. Mus. 



Paris). 



This may perhaps be C. triloba, Heyne. 



5. C. orossa (Wall. Cat. 4671 ! r 



Taong Dong, Ava. 



We have examined the specimen of this plant in the Linnean Society's Herbarium. 

 It is not in flower or fruit, and is the terminal shoot of a young plant. The leaves 

 are 8-10 inches in length, bipinnate, the leaflets of thin texture, oblong-lanceolate, 

 coarsely toothed or incised, and about 3 inches long. It is probably an undescribed 



species. 



Tribus II. Anemones. 



i 



Sepala sestivatione imbricata. Petala nulla vel plana. Carpella mo- 

 nosperma, semine pendulo. — Herbn foliis altemis. 



3. THALICTRUM, L. 



Involucrum sub flore nullum. Sepala 4-5, aestivatione imbricata. 

 Petala nulla. Stamina numerosa. Carpella monosperma, indehiscen- 

 tia, ecaudata. — Hcrbae perennes ; caulibus annuis ; floribus paniculatis, 

 albisjtavis vel purpurascentibus. 



This is a \ery extensive genus, the species of which are abundant throughout the 

 northern hemisphere and the mountains of the tropics, but which is only represented 

 south of the tropics by one or two species at the Cape of Good Hope. All the species 

 are subject to great variation in the size and form of the leaves, which are usually 

 much divided. Thcy^ are very widely spread over the mountainous parts of India, more 

 especially in the Himalaya, and the Indian species seem quite as variable as those of 

 Europe, the number of which is, we are convinced, very much over-estimated in 

 modern systematic works. Most of the Indian species inhabit the shady moun- 

 tain forests of the Himalaya during the rainy season, and are very different from 

 those of Europe, some of them being the same as those which inhabit the Indian 



islands, while others will probably be found to extend into the still unknown 

 tain districts of West China. The alpine species however are European, ai 

 quite as plentiful in the Himalaya as on the mountains of Europe and Siberia. It 



mo inl- 

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