Eanuncuhis.} i. RANUNCULACE^s. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 17 



Higher mountains of the WESTERN PENINSULA, Wight, &c. 



Rootstock stout, horizontal, densely fibrous. Stem 1-14 ft- > branches few, 1-flowered. 

 Radical leaves 1-3 in., thick, base truncate or cordate, glabrate or sparsely setose; 

 cauiine few, narrow, bracteiform. Flowers 1 in. diam. Petals obovate-oblong. Achenes 

 oblong, tumid, in a globose head ; bunk straight. 



5. XI. saglttifolius, Hook Ic. PL t. 173 ; erect, glabrous above, leaves 

 oblong-cordate or sagittate crenate, petals 5. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 30. K. 

 hastatus, Walker mss. ex Wight III. i. 5. 



Mountains of CEYLON, above 6000 ft., Walker, &c. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem erect, with scattered hairs near the base. Radical leaves 

 long-petioled, base deeply cordate with rounded lobes; cauiine narrow-lanceolate, 

 inciso-dentate or almost pinnatitid. Petals nearly orbicular. Achenes as in R. reni- 

 formis. Distinguished from R. reniformis chiefly by the few petals ; the leaves are 

 very variable in both. R.javanicus, BL, is closely allied, but quite glabrous. 



6. R. Cymbalariae, Pursh. Fl. Eor. Am. ii. 392 ; creeping, glabrous, 

 leaves oblong or orbicular 3-5-lobed, or -partite, petals 5-8. H. f. & T. FL 

 Ind. 31. 



WEST TIBET, between 7000 and 17,000 ft., Thomson. Interior of SIKKIM, alt. 

 14,000 ft., Ilook.f. DISTRIB. Persia, Siberia, Arctic and cold temperate N. America, 

 Cordillera of N. and S. America. 



Rootstock with long rooting runners; stem 0. Leaves \-\ in. diam., base rounded 

 or slightly cordate. Scape erect, leaflets 1-8-flowered ; bracts at the forks, linear. 

 Flowers |- in. diam. Sepals spreading or reflexed. Achenes many, small, obovate, 

 compressed, gibbous at the back, sides longitudinally 3-ribbed ; beak straight or hooked. 

 Variable in foliage and form of heads of fruit, and stolons sometimes absent. 



7. H, pulchellus, C. A. Mey. in Led. FL Alt. ii. 333 ; erect, glabrous 

 hairy or silky, leaves elliptic oblong entire or 3-7-toothed or lobed, petals 

 5. H.f. & T. FL Ind. 31. R salsuginosus, Wall. Cat. 4708 (not of Don}. 

 ft. flammula, Don in Royle III. 53 (not of Linn.}. E. nephelegenes, Edgew. 

 m Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 28. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, in the inner ranges from Sikkim westward, and in WESTERN 

 TIUET, from 10-18,000 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Siberia, Mongolia. 



Stem 3-12 in., simple or with a few 1-flowered branches. Leaves glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, sometimes palmately lobed; cauiine lanceolate, often entire. Flowers ^ in. diam. 

 /Sepals elliptic, often black-tipped. Petals broadly obovate. Achenes in an oblong 

 head, small, inflated, glabrous; style nearly straight. Common and very variable, 

 states with broad deeply cut leaves pass into glabrous achened states of R. pedat ijidas. 

 The R. longicaulis, C. A. Meyer, is another variety. 



VAR. 1. typicus ; leaves glabrous or slightly pubescent. 



VAR. 2. sericeus ; leaves densely silky. K. membranaceus, Royle 111. 53. 



8. R. lobatus, Jacq. ex Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Hot. 5, t. i. B ; decumbent, 

 glabrous, leaves orbicular crenate coriaceous, petals 5. H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 31. R. salsuginosus, Don in Royle III. 53 (not of Wall. Cat.}. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, in the inner ranges, alt. 12-16,000 ft. from Zanskar to Sikkim, 

 and in WEST TIBET, Jacquemont, &c. 



Rootstock giving off weak decumbent leafy stems 2-3 in., not stoloniferous. Radical 

 leaves \-\ in. diam., long-petioled, rounded or cordate at the base ; cauiine similar but 

 shorter petioled, often 3-toothed. Flowers f-f in. diam. Sepals oval. Pttals broadly 

 obovate. Achenes in an oval head, slightly compressed, beaked by the long straight 

 style. Distinguished from R. pulchellus by the diffuse stem, large fleshy cauiine 

 leaves and large flower, but intermediates occur. 



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