Nceravelia.] i. RANUNCULACE.E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 7 



4-5. Petals 6-12, narrow, longer than the calyx. AcJienes narrow, long, 

 stipitate, with long-bearded styles DJSTEIB. Two E. Asiatic species. 



1 . N. zeylanica, DC. Si/st. i. 167 ; more or less pubescent, leaflets broad- 

 ovate. sepals linear-spathulate. Wall. Cat. 4687 ; W. & A. Prodr. 2 ; H. f. <k 

 T. FCTna. 3. "TUTagene zeylanica, L. ; Roxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 188; Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 670. 



Tropical forests of the HIMALAYA, from E. Nepal eastward, BENGAL, ASSAM, E. 

 AND W. PENINSULAS, CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java. 



Leafl ts usually cordate at the base, entire or coarsely toothed, often toraentose below, . 



sometimes pubescent on the nerves -only. Flowers 4~| in. diam. Jsepals pubescent / ; 

 outside, twice as long as the glabrous petals. 



2. N. laurifolia, Wall. Gat. 4685 ; glabrous, leaflets narrow acuminate, 

 base usually acute, petals very long linear not spathulate. H.f. & T. Fl. 

 Lid. 3. N. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cta.468 (achenes diseased, subulate, beard- 

 less, corky, seedless). 



EASTERN PENINSULA; Mergui to Malacca and Penang. DISTRIB. Eastward to the 

 Philippines. 



3. ANEMONE, Linn. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves radical, lobed or divided. Flowers on 1- or more- 

 flowered simple or branched scapes ; involucre 3-partite, bracts free or con- 

 nate. /Sepals 4-20, petaloid, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens many, outer 

 sometimes deformed or petaloid. Carpels many; ovule 1, pendulous. 

 Fruit a head of sessile achenes, with short or long naked or bearded styles. 

 DISTEIB. Cold and temperate regions, very rare in the S. hemisphere ; 

 species 80. 



SECT. I. Fulsatilla, DC. Achenes with long feathery styles. 



1. A, albana, Stev. in Mem. tioc. Hist. Nat. Mosc. iii. 264 ; softly hairy, 

 leaves pinnatisect, sepals erect. DC. Prodr. i. 17; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 19. 

 A. Wallichiana, Royle III 52. 



WEST TIBET; above 15,000 ft., Jacquemont, &c. DISTRIB. N. Asia, from Armenia 

 to Baikal. 



Densely tufted. Eootstock thick, woody, clothed with old leaf-sheaths. Leaf- 

 segments pumatifid ; ultimate broadly linear, incised. Scape 6 in., fruiting 12 in. 

 Invol. leaves connate at the base, 3-fid or pinnatifid above. Flowers solitary, nodding, 

 dull red-brown. Sepals with erect tips, silky outside, about as*long as the stamens. 

 Probably an alpine state of the European A.pratensis, but the invol. is less divided. 

 Tibetan specimens are usually smaller than the Siberian, but not always. 



SECT. II. Briocephalus, //./. & T. Achenes with short styles, imbedded 

 in dense wool. f 



2. A. biflora, DC. Syst. i. 201 ; rootstock tuberous, scape glabrous, 

 leaves 3-partite or 3-foliolate, segments rounded, flowers 1-3 small //./. 

 <& T. Fl. Ind. 20. A. Gordschakowii, Kar. & Kir. in PI. Soong. No. 14. 

 Grif. It. notes, 349. 



KASHMIR ; in dry stony places, alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Turkestan and E. to Persia 

 Scape 2-8 in., slender, usually quite glabrous, fiadical leaves long-petioled ; seg- 

 ments suborbicular or broadly cuneale, palmately-lobed or partite. Invol. leaves 

 sessile, lobed to the middle. Flowers dull red ; pedicels pubescent, lateral with a 

 2-leaved involucre, the terminal naked. 



