THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF WESTERN 

 INDIA. 



Note. H stands for Hooker's " Flora of British India." 



D Dalzell and Gibson's " Bombay Flora." 

 G Graham's " Plants of Bombay." 

 E Eoxburgh's "Flora Indica." 



Native names are in Italics at the end of the description. 

 An asterisk before the name of a plant means that it has not been 

 seen by me. 



ORDER 1. RANUNCTJLACEJE. 



Generally herbs, sometimes shrubs, leaves generally much 

 divided and with dilated petioles ; sepals 3 to 6, deciduous, 

 petals 3 or more, sometimes wanting ; stamens many, ovary 

 generally of many distinct carpels; fruit of many one -seeded 

 achenes, or many-seeded follicles. 



This is an order of temperate regions, best known in England from 

 the buttercups, but only slightly represented in W. India. There 

 are five tribes, named respectively from the Clematis, Anemone, 

 Eanunculus, Hellebore, and Paeony. There is nothing here belonging 

 to the third and fifth tribes, and of the second and fourth only a 

 single species each. 



CLEMATIS. Climbing undershrubs with opposite leaves, 

 sepals usually 4, petaloid, petals none ; carpels many, fruit a 

 head of achenes, with long feathery points. 



Note. The leaves and leaflets in this genus often vary a great 

 deal in the same specimen, and the petioles are often twisted. 



1 . C. Gouriana. Nearly smooth, leaves pinnate or bipinnate, 

 leaflets oval or oblong, flowers in large panicles, small, white, 

 achenes hairy. Morvel, rdnjdi. Very variable (H.). 



The Ghauts : very abundant about Nasik. This strongly recalls 

 C. vitalba of English hedges, known generally as "Traveller's joy" 

 or " Oldman's beard," but also by various other names 

 " The clematis, the favoured flower, 

 Which boasts the name of virgin's bower." Scott. 



2. C. Wightiana. A large hairy climber, leaves pinnate, 



