26 flora indica. [Eanunculacete. 



Hab. Inter segetes in montibus Indise bor. : Belucbistan, Stocks/ 

 Afghanistan, Griffith! Kashmir, Winterbottom ! Kanawer, Royle ! etc. 

 Sirmur ad Kotgarh, Sir. et Wint. ! ; et in montibus Nilghiri, Wight, 

 sed fide cl. Munro in hortis tantum. — (Fl. Mai.-Jul.) (v. v.) 



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Herba erecta, 1-2-pedalis, simplex vel superne ramosa, glabra .vel tenuiter pu- 

 bescens. Folia 1-3-imcialia, pinnatim decomposita, segmentis anguste linearibus. 

 Fiores ad ramorum apices solitarii, diametro i-l^-unciales, coccinei, petalis basi 

 atropurpureis. Sepala petalis £ breviora. Achenia late ovalia, angularia, superne 

 prope apicem tubereulata, et basi deiite acuto quasi calcarata. 



The Indian plant agrees perfectly with European and Siberian specimens. The 

 achenia vary a good deal in shape, and do not, we fear, afford good characters, though 

 many of the species described by European botanists seem to have no other distin- 

 guishing marks. The broad petals and globose flowers of A. autumnalis serve to 

 distinguish the typical form of that species from the ordinary state of A. astivalis, 

 but intermediate forms are common. Dr. Royle's description seems partly taken 

 from A. autumnalis, of which we have seen no Indian specimens, those in Herb. 

 Boyle being A. aestivalis. . 



2. A. Pyrenaica (DC. Prod. i. 25); radice perenni, foliis radi- 

 calibus longe petiolatis multifidis caulinis subsessilibus, ramis unifloris, 

 acheniis stylo uncinatim recurvo apiculatis in capitulo ovali vel sub- 

 globoso dispositis. — Deless. Ic. set. i. t. 21. 



Hab. In montibus Kashmir, Jacquemont! Winterbottom! et in Tibet 



(v. s.) 



Wint.! (Trollius, No. 3.)— (Fl. Jun. Jul.) 



Distrib. In mont. Pyrenseis ! necnon in Apenninis et Hungaria, 

 DC. 



Radix valida, fusiformis, subhorizon talis, collo squamis magnis membranaceis 

 vaginantibns involuta. Caules e collo plures vel solitarii, ^-l£-pedalis, basi plerumque 

 nudi, superne foliosi. Folia radicalia longe petiolata, caulem floriferum ssepe fere 

 sequantia, cito marcescentia, decomposite pinnatisecta, segmentis ultimis anguste 

 linearibus. Fiores maj usculi, aurei. Sepala 7-8, obovata, pallida. Petala 12-15, 

 obovato-cuneata, pbtusa, 1-1^-pollicaria, sepalis subduplo longiora. Achenia magna, 

 angulata, glabra, in capitulum densum aggregata. 



Our Indian specimens are in flower only, and we had considered them at one time 

 a distinct species. A more careful examination, however, has shown us that the 

 characters on which we relied are of no value, and that our plant is in no way dis- 

 tinguishable from that of Western Europe. A. vernalis, L., chiefly differs in the 

 absence of radical leaves, for the floral characters are by no means constant. It is 

 very remarkable that the Himalayan plant should be the same as that of Western 

 Eurone. and different from that of the Caucasus and Siberia. 



6. CALLIANTHEMUM, C. A. Meyer. 



Sepala 5, decidua. Petala 5-15, ungue fovea nectarifera irapressa. 

 Achenia subglobosa, stylo brevi apiculata. Semen pendulum.— Herbae 

 alpeslres, caulescentes vel acaules, radice peremianle, foliis decomposite, 



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floribus albis. 



The only other known species of this genus, C. rutafolium, C. A. Meyer, is 

 native of the alps of Europe and Siberia. 



1. C. pimpinelloides (Royle! 111. 45); acaulis, foliis bipinuai 



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