10 I. RANUNCULACEJE. (Hook. f. & TllOlllS.) [AnC/Ht'llf. 



I.VXER HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft.; from Kashmir to Sikkim, JIW/.VA 

 Jiootstock stout, woody. Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves long-petioled, '2 4 in. diam., reniform- 

 cordate ; lobes broad, cuneate, 3-fid and eremite. I'mixl* maiiy-ll > wen-. 1. simple or 

 with the side branches divided and involucellate ; in vol. leaves cuneate-oblong, variable, 

 more or less cut. Flowers 1 in. diam., white. A.ehene broadly oval, with a sharp 

 straight beak. Perhaps only a form of A. narcissiflora, with less cut leaves, im : 

 pound umbel, and differently shaped achenes. 



13. A. narcissiflora, L. ; DC. Pr<lr. i. 21; densely vill 

 palmately 5-partite, segments deeply cut into linear lobes, scapes erect. 

 ti.f.&T.FLlnd. 24. 



KASHMIR, Falconer, Winterbottom. DISTRIB. Alps of S. and Central Kinopt 1 , W. 

 Asia, Siberia, N. W. America. 



Very similar to and probably connected by intermediates with J 

 smaller, 1 ft. hijrh ; leaves 1 -2 in. diam.; flowers simply umbelled, and at 

 orbicular with an incurved beak. 



** Flowers //' " 12, polyanthes). 



14. A. tetrasepala, Until* lit. .">:J ; ;Jabrate, leave- ueejily MoWd, 

 achenes obovate-oblon.i; with a hooked bea H.j. ( T. /'/. hl. :M. 



\VKSTEKN HIMALAYA, Marri, Kashmir and Kishtwar, alt. K ll.nuoft. 



liootstoclc woody, crown fibrous ; bnds, petioles, and \oiniu r i 



leaves 3-10 in. diam., long-petioled, coria< -eons, rc-i,ifi>rm or mi-date, deeply ,~ t l,.bcd ; 

 segments acute, entire Inhed or inei^o seir.ite. | : , tin-ice i.ranelie i. . ntr.ieted 



or effuse and 1 foot lonir; in vol. lea\. Broadly i-utiuate, sharply i 



Flowers white. A large robi> . ied t. .1. 



15. A. elong-ata, l)n /'/'></,-. I'.n ; pubescent, leaves 3-partiti-, aclieiies 

 broadly oval with a short straight beak. //. /'. ( T. /'/. In<i. -2:>. A. rivn- 

 laris, Wall. Cat. 492 (w>t / oti 



HIMALAYA, < iarwhal, alt. 10,000 ft., Mr. ,i- WiHti'rh. ; Nipul. Wullkh; 

 KMASIA nii.i.s, alt. oOOO It., //./. A T. 



llootxtock small, fibrous, htem 2-3 ft., slender, jnil.es, ent. Hmlitil ! <<* 2-4 in. 

 diam., lon^-petioii-d, orbicular, lias> co-date, \vith a lew soft hairs chielly below; lateral 

 segments deeply 2-lobed, miil-scu'inent :i-lnbf.i ; lobes acute, ineiso dentate, ('i/mtg 

 elongate, few-llowcreil, twice or thiice divided, fascicles _'-:; (lowered. l,<r<>l. leaves 

 oblong or broad-cuncate, vaiionsly too;h"d. /'/<///, r* white. Remarkable for the elon- 

 gate stems and scapes. 



4. TKAZjZCTRUM, Linn. 



Erect, usually rigid, perennial herbs. Leaves compound ; petioles sheath- 

 ing, often auricled or stipuled. Flowers panicled or racemed, often poly- 

 gamous. Sepals 4-5, petaloid, imbricate. J'rttil* o. Stamens many. (',/,</.< 

 few or many; ovule 1, pendulousi Fruit a small head of sessile or stalked 

 achenes ; style persistent or deciduous.- DISTRIB. Temperate and cold 

 northern regions, very rare in the S. ; species 60. 



SECT. I. Fhysocarpum, DC. Achenes stalked, laterally compressed, 

 flat or inflated. Leaves ternately decompound, or in 6, paurijlorum. 2-ternately 

 divided. 



1. T. eleg-ans, Wall. Cat. 4728; stem 8-12 in., leaves 2-3 in. glaucous 

 beneath, flowers small, anthers short mucronate, achenes long-stalked 

 ventral suture winged. Roy le III. 51 ; //./. & T. Fl. Ind. 13; Edgew. in 

 Trans. Linn. tioc. xx. 26. 



