Thalictrum.} i. RANUNCULACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 13 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and WEST TIBET, alt. 10-17,000 ft. DISTRIB. North Alpine and 

 Arctic regions. 



A slender, tufted, glabrous perennial. Stem 3-6 in. Lea/lets small, rounded, 3-lobed 

 or almost 3-partite, glaucous beneath. Scapes simple, rarely forked ; pedicels short, 

 reflexed in fruit ; bracteoles oblong, obtuse, membranous, f 'lowers greenish. Anthers 

 beaked. Achenes few. The length of the stalk of the achene varies in both European 

 and Indian specimens. 



12. T. rotundifolium, DC. Syst. i. 185 ; leaves simple, stipules free, 

 filaments filiform, achenes with a straight beak booked at the tip. Don 

 Prodr. 193 ; Wall. Cat. 2713; PI. As. Ear. t. 264 ; U.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 19. 



NIPAL, Hamilton, Wallich. 



Stem erect, 1 ft. ; roots fibrous. Leaves long-petioled, 2-3 in diam., orbicular or 

 reniform, with many shallow toothed lobes, membranous, much reticulate, scabrous on 

 both surfaces ; stipules oblong. Panicle few-flowered. Achenes immature. 



13. T. Dalzellii, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 866 ; leaves 3-foliolate rarely -ternate, 

 stipules free, panicle subsimple, filaments clavate, achenes with a long 

 straight beak hooked at the tip. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 10 ; Dak. & Gibs. 

 Bombay Flora, 2. 



Mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA ; Harrichander, Dalzell ; Bababuden hills in 

 Malabar, Law. 



Stem erect, 1 ft. Leaves slightly sheathing at the base; leaflets 1^-2 in. diam., 

 reniform, deeply cordate. 7-9 lobed, lobes crenate or toothed ; stipules oblong. Panicle 

 small, branches few. Flowers white, fascicled at the ends of the branches. Achenes 

 many, sessile, ribbed. 



14. T. Funduanum, Wall. Cat. 3712; PI. As. Ear. ii. 26; leaves 

 2-ternate, sheaths auricled, panicle much branched, filaments filiform, 

 achenes many small ribbed, beak long straight hooked at the tip. H./.& 

 T. Fl. Ind. 18. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA; wet rocks of Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 4500- 

 7000 ft. KHASIA HILLS, rocks near Churra, alt. 3-4000 ft. 



Stem 2ft., erect. Leaves long-petioled, upper 3-foliolate; leaflets 1-2 in. diam., 

 orbicular or oval, base cordate or truncate, 5-lobed, crenate, glaucous or tomentose be- 

 neath, lateral oblique ; stipels 0. Panicle nearly leafless. Flowers white. Achenes 

 sessile or stalked, beak nearly their own length. Two well-marked varieties. 



VAR. 1. glaucum; leaves membranous, glabrous and glaucous beneath, achenes 

 sessile glabrous. W. Himalaya and Khasia. 



VAR. 2. glandulosum ; leaves coriaceous viscidly pubescent beneath, achenes more 

 or less stalked glandular-hairy. Khasia, with the former. 



ft Leaves ternately or pinnately decompound. 



15. T. saniculaeforme, DC. Prodr. i. 12; small, leaf subsolitary 3-4- 

 ternate, stipules almost free, filaments filiform, anthers short rnucronate, 

 achenes many small ribbed with a long straight beak hooked at the tip. 

 H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 15. T. radiatum, Hoyk 111. 52. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; on wet rocks and tree trunks, from Simla and Kunawer 

 to Sikkim (alt. 8000 ft.). 



Erect, 6-12 in., wiry, glabrous; root fibrous. Radical leaf often equalling the pa- 

 nicle, long-petioled, stem leaves few ; leaHets 4~1 in , orbicular or oval, base cuneate, 

 membranous, glaucous beneath, 3-lobed or -partite, lobes rounded or mucron.ite. 

 Flowers small, white. Achems sessile, oblong, as long as their beak. Omitted in 

 Wallich's Catalogue, but distributed by him. 



16. T. Javanicum, Blume Bijd. 2; tall, leaves ternately decompound, 

 stipules adiiate membranous fiinbriate, filaments club-shaped, authers not 



