42 flora indica. [Ranunculacece . 



13. COPTIS, Salisb. 



Sepala 5-6, regularia, colorata. Petala unguiculata, cucullata vel 

 linearia, non foveolata. Folliculi longe stipitati, stellatira patentes. 

 Herbse rJiizomate horizontali perennantes ; foliis ternatim sectis ; scapis 

 paucifloris ; floribus albidis. 



The few known species of this genus are confined to the colder parts of the north 

 temperate zone, one species being European and Siberian, while the rest are confined 

 to North America. The Iudian species is scarcely known, although its root is ap- 

 parently much esteemed as a drug by the inhabitants of the mountains east of Assam, 

 in which it is indigenous, and whence it i3 exported to Bengal. It is very bitter. 



1. C. Teeta (Wall. Tr. Med. et Phys. Soc. Calc. viii. 347, et in 

 Linnaea xii. 227); foliis trisectis, segraentis lobato-pinnatifidis, scapo 

 paucifloro, bracteis foliaceis lobato-tripartitis. — Griffith Joum. 37. 



Hab. In montibus Mishmi, in zona temperata, Wall. Griff. 



Radix subcarnosa, multiceps, fibrillosa, intus luteo-aurea. Folia glabra, rigida, 

 circumscriptione ovato-cordata, attenuato-aeuminata, 4-poll. ; segmenta lateralia bi- 

 pollicaria, petiolo £-poll v semicordata, extus fere bipartita, terminale duplo majus 

 utrinque atteuuatum, omnia inciso-pinnatiiida. Scapus gracilis, folia sequans ; flores 

 vix ultra 3, paryi, alter ni, peduncidati. Sepala oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, semipol- 

 licaria, fugacissima. Petala lineari-ligulata, obtusa, sepalis triplo breviora. Fol- 



liculi T)lurcs# » 



Our description is condensed from that of Wallich, as we have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing this rare plant. 



14. ISOPYRUM, L. 



Sepala 5-6, regularia, colorata. Petala unguiculata vel sessilia, 

 lamina cucullata vel planiuscula, non foveolata. Folliculi 2-20.— 

 Herbse annua vel perennes ; foliis ternatim sectis ; floribus albis. 



The species of this genus are natives of shady woods or of mountain -rocks in the 

 north temperate zone. The alpine species have a very peculiar hahit, but the caulescent 

 ones resemble Thalictrum. 



1. I. adiantifolium (H.f. et T.) ; caule folioso, foliis caulinis op- 

 positis, petalis longe unguiculatis, lamina parva rotundata subbiloba, 



ovariis 3. ........ ~., , . 



Hab. In Himalayas orientalis sylvis huimdissimis : bikkim prope 



Dorjiling, alt. 7500 ped. !— (¥1. April.) (v. v.) 



Rhizoma horizontal, squamis rotundatis concavis tectum. Caulis erectus, 3-6- 

 nollicaris simplex vel diehotome ramosus, basi nudus, soperne foliosus. toltaraai- 

 S^ongc pJtiolata, petiolis hasi auricula,, s trisect;, Foliola longe pet.o ubta^ 

 petiolis partialibus basi m. mbranaccis stipellahs, terminale indivisurn, h teruha n 

 'egmenta 5-7 petiolata subdichotome secta; tegmenta omnia tenuis*. ma late cuncata 

 ve! fere rotundata, 3-4 lincas longa, antice iuciso-crenata, subtus glauca. tolia 

 eaulina opposita vel quateruatim verticillata, petiolis basi stipulis mcnibi-anaceis .ro- 

 tundatis a!triculatis,majora foliis radicahbus conformia. ^;^ diametro seu.^omcaru, 

 Sepala ovalia, obtusa. Petala minuta, longe unguiculata, lamina ro undata, plana 

 vel saccata, biloba vel eroso-dentata. Filamenta fihformia, petalis duplo longiora, se- 

 palis i breviora. Anthera ovales. 



