Adonis.] FLORA INDICA. 25 



Winterbottom ! Kishtwar! — (v. v.) 



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Herba 1-2-pedalis, glabra vel sublanata. Folia coriacea, 3-10 uncias lata, ssepius 

 lotige petiolata, utrinque glabra vel subtus adpressc sericea. Scapi folia superantes, 

 glabri vel patentim pilosi. Involucri folia 1-4 uncias longa. Involucelli foliola 

 obovata, varie incisa vel lineari-oblonga, indivisa. Flores sscpius plurimi. Sepala 

 4-5, obovata vel orbicularia, glabra, £-f-uncialia, alba. 



This, which is one of the largest and most robust species of the genus, is in gene- 

 ral character very closely allied to the preceding, from which it chiefly differs in 

 being less hairy, with larger leaves, the segments of which are acute and sharply 

 toothed, and not, as in A. polyanthes y cut into blunt serratures. The involucre is ge- 

 nerally very much larger in the present species, but we have seen specimens in which 

 it is very small. In the only specimen which we possess with ripe fruit the ache- 

 nium has the style so much inflexed as to be closely adpressed to the fruit, but this 

 character may not be constant. 



15. A. elongata (Don, Prod. 194) ; foliis tripartitis, segmeiitis 

 obovato-cuneatis acutis grosse inciso-serratis, involucri parvi foliis 

 tribus, pedunculis 3-5 unifloris di-trichotomisve, involucelli foliolis par- 

 vis, acheniis paucis (1-3) ovalibus vel orbiculatis subobliquis anguste 

 alatis stylo brevi recto rostratis. — A. rivularis, Wall. Cat. 4692! non 

 Ham. nee alior. 



Hab. In Himalaya temperata : Garhwal, Sir. et Wint. No. 5 ! Nipal, 

 Wall.! ; et in montibus Khasia prope Nonkrim, alt. 5000 ped.! 



Radix fusiformis, perpendicularis. Caulis erectus, glabratus vel tenuiter pu- 

 bescens. Folia longe petiolata, 2-5 uncias lata, tripartita, segmento medio trilobo 

 lateralibus bilobis. Scapi valde elongati, 1-3-pedales, laxiilori, involucris pro planta 

 parvis. Pedunculi dichotomi vel imperfecte umbellati (fructiferi elongati), termi- 

 nalis exinvolucellatus, laterales involucellum parvum 1-3-folium gerentes, simplices 

 vel umbellati. Umbellulce radii pauci. Sepala ^-uncialia, alba. 



Remarkable for its much elongated stems and scapes. The inflorescence is inter- 

 mediate between umbellate and cymose, the central terminal flower being usually 

 distinct and solitary, though occasionally all the peduncles are similarly umbellate. 

 In the latter case, however, the central flower may have withered or been abortive. 



5. ADONIS, L. 



Sepala 5-8. Petala 8-16, fovea nectarifera nulla. Achenia plurima, 

 angulosa, ecaudata, stylo recto vel recurvo apiculata. — Herba; caules- 

 centes, foliis multifidis. 



This genus contains two very natural groups, Adonia and Oonsoligo, each of 

 which has a representative in the Indian Flora. The species of Adonia are annual, 

 and usually occur in corn-fields. They are very closely allied to one another, if, 

 indeed, they be not all forms of one or at most two very variable species. The sec- 

 tion Consoligo comprises a few perennial-rooted plants, which are natives of moun- 

 tainous districts of south Europe and temperate Asia. 



1. A. aestivalis (L. spec. 772); annua, caule folioso, petalis 

 planis expansis, acheniis angulatis rugosis stylo subrecto apiculatis in 

 spicara oblongam dispositis. — DC. Syst. i. 224, Prod. i. 24; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. i. 23 ; W. et A. Prod. i. 3 ; Boyle, III. 53 ? A. Inglisii, Boyle! 



Ill 53. 



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