10 i. RANUNCULACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Thalictnnn. 



Stem branched. Leaves small, uniform in size all up the stem ; leaflets obovate- 



cuneate, 3-4-lobed, reticulate, pale beneath, all petioled, mid-leaflets longeat-petioled. 



Panicle with 1 or few flowers at the ends of long branches. Sepals 3-nerved, ovate, 

 acute. Achenes 3-5, obovate, dorsal suture straight. 



SECT. II. Euthalictrum, DC. Achenes not compressed, oval or oblong, 

 sessile or stalked (see 11, alpmuin, and 14, Punduanuni}. 



* Achenes elongate, more or less stipitate. Anthers with a very short 

 beak or 0. 



7. T. virg-atum, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 14; leaves snbsessile simply ter- 

 nate, flowers small white, achenes many small erect acute at each end 

 ribbed, stigma straight. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, inner valleys of Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 ft, Hook.f. BHOTAN 

 Griffith (It, notes, 284). 



Glabrous. Stem erect, 1-1 4 ft. Leaflets \-\ in., coriaceous, reticulate, orbicular, 

 5-7-lobed, base cimeate, glaucous beneath. I\mi,-le decompound, spreading, bracts 

 minute. Anthers not beaked. Achenes 10-25, very short-stalked. 



8. T. rutaefolium, //./. & T. FL I id. 14; glabrous, weak, straggling, 

 leaves decompoundly pinnate, flowers rnremed very small greenish, adienes 

 few many-ribbed oblong curved, style incurved. 



WESTERN TIKET, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson; interior of Sikkim, alt. 12,000 ft. 

 Hook. f. 



More or less glaucous. Stem 1-2 ft. Leaf-sheath aurided ; division* stipulate; 

 leaflets very small, 3-lobed or -partite, base ciincatc. 1'nnirl,- with long rigid simple 

 branches; pedicels spreading or d'-llexed. Anthir* short: shortlv beak* 

 shortly stipitate, abruptly detlexed. beaked by the style. The Sikkim specimens are 

 greener and more luxuriant than the Tibetan, and have longer achenes. 



9. T. pedunculatum, AV</, ,/. in Tr<n>*. Linn. Soc. xx. 27; leaves 

 3-ternate, flowers lar-e white, arheiies ehm-ate strongly ribbed, style in- 

 curved. H.f. <(' T. /'/. ln<L 15 ; GY// Itut. not, : 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Simla to KatlVistan, alt. 6-8000 ft.,Edgeworth, &c. 



Glabrous. Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves long-petroled, primary and secondary divisions 

 long-stalked; leaflets membranous, 1 in. diam., orbicular or ouneate-oboyate, 3-7- 

 lobed. Panicle terminal ; pedicels long. Sepals variable in size, ^-1 in., oblong, 

 obtuse, twice as long as the stamens. Anthers not pointed, short. Achenes 4~| in., 

 linear-oblong, tapering at both ends. Griffith's Kaffristan specimens are larger flowered 

 than the Himalayan. 



10. T. rostellatum, //./ ,{ T. FL Ind. 15; diffusely brancliod, leaves 

 ternately decompound, flowers small white, achenes tapering into a straight 

 beak half their length, tip hooked. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-11,000 ft., rare, from Simla, Jacquemont, &c., to 

 Sikkim, Hook.f. 



** Achenes short, oblong, ribbed, subsessile (stalked in 11, alpinum&nd 

 14, Punduanum). 

 T Leaves simple, once or twice ternate, or pinnate (rarely Z-pinnate). 



11. T. alpinum, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 12 ; small, slender, leaves all radical 

 pinnate rarely 2-pinnate, flowers racemed, achenes oblong striate subsessile 

 or stipitate. H.f. & T. FL Ind. 18. T. microphyllum and T. marginatum, 

 Royle HI. 51. T. acaule, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. i. A. 



