Callianthemum.} I. RANUNCULACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 15 



INNER RANGES OF THE HIMALAYAS, alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Kashmir, Jacquemont, to 

 Sikkim, Hook. f. 



Densely tufted, glabrous, glaucous; root fibrous. Leaves very numerous, long- 

 petioled, segments rounded, 2-3-sect ; pinnules orbicular, deeply cut. Scapes 2-4 in., 

 shorter than the leaves. Flowers 1-1 4 in. diam., white. Sepuls broadly elliptic. 

 Petals 8-12, 3 times larger than the sepals, oblong-cuneate, retuse. Achcnea few, large, 

 ovoid, obtuse, rugose. 



6. ADONIS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves much divided. Sepals 5-8, petaloid, 

 coloured, imbricate. Petals 5-10, yellow or red, eglandular. Carpels many ; 

 style short ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit a spike or head of many achenes 

 tipped with a short persistent style. DISTEIB. 3 or 4 European and Asiatic 

 species. 



SECT. I. Adonia, DC. Annual erect herbs, with leafy stems and scarlet 

 flowers. 



1. A. eestivalis, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 24 ; petals spreading, achenes an- 

 gular, with a tooth on the inner angle near the beak. W. & A. Prodr. 

 i. 3 ; H.f. & T. Fl. 2nd. 25. A. Inglisii, Royle III 53. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, in cornfields, from Kumaon to Kashmir, Hazara, and 

 Peshawur. DISTRIB. Temperate Europe and Asia. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft., simple or branched, nearly glabrous. Leaves decotn- 

 poundly -pinnate, segments filiform. Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches, vari- 

 able in size, scarlet with a dark parple eye. Achenes in an ovoid or oblong head, deeplv 

 pitted. Differs from A autumnalis in the spreading petals, but there are many inter- 

 mediates. The achenes afford a very variable character, too much used in dividing 

 varieties of this into species. 



2. .A. scrobiculata, Boiss. ; Fl. Orient, i. 17 petals spreading, achenes 

 angular surrounded near the broad base by a flattened almost winged 

 collar. 



WEST HIMALAYA, Kishtwar, Stewart. DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 



Doubtfully distinct from ^1. ce^tivaUfi, and only by the achenes which are more sharply 

 angled, less pitted, and rough with small tubercles ; the upper achenes seem to lose the 

 basal wing. A. marginata, Bienert in Herb. Bunge, seems to be the same plant. 



SECT. II. Consolig o. Perennial herbs, with golden yellow flowers. 



3. A. chrysocyathus, //./. < T. ; petals at length spreading, achenes 

 not angular turgid, style tapering revolute. A. pyrenaica, H.f. & T. Fl. 

 Ind. 26 (not of DC ). CHRYSOCYATHUS (gen.), Fakoner in ttoyle III in- 

 trod. xxx. 



^ WESTERN ALPINE HIMALAYA, in Chamba and Kashmir, Jacquemont; WESTERN 

 TIBET in Deotsu and Guge, Stracliey & Winterb. 



Rootstock scaly, horizontal. Stems several, er< ct, leafy, flowering 6-9 in., fruiting 

 15 in. jRadical leaves petioled, 3-6 in., deltoid, pinnately decompound, segments narrow- 

 linear or subcuneate. Flowers golden-yellow, 2 in. and more diam., buds globose. 

 /Sepals 7-8, obovate, acute, many-nerved. Petals 16-24, twice as long as the sepals, 

 narrow-obovate, obtuse. Achenes in a dense head, | in. diam , glabrous, flattened ante- 

 riorly, dorsally convex and obtusely keeled. The foliage and flowers closely resemble 

 those of A. pyrenaica, to which in the absence of fruits we formerly referred it, and 

 from which it differs ia the numerous much smaller achenes. 



