Ranunculus.] i. RANUNCULACE.E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 21 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



R. vestitus, Wall. Cat. 4707. The specimens consist of a few long-petioled radical 

 leaves. 



R. bvlbosus, L. (H.f. & T. FL Ind. 37). Probably intercalated by mistake amongst 

 Koyle's Indian Plants. It has been found by no one else. 



8. OXITGRAFHZS, Bunge. 



Dwarf perennial glabrous stemless plants, with 1-flowered scapes. Leaves 

 entire. Flowers regular, yellow. Sepals 5, persistent, enlarged after flower- 

 ing. Petals 10-15, with a nectariferous pit on the claw. Stamens many. 

 Aclienes many, membranous, in a globose head, beaked by the straight subu- 

 late persistent style. Seed erect. A genus of two species, differing from 

 Ranunculus in the persistent sepals. 



1. O. glacialis, Bunge En. PI. Alt. 35 ; leaves elliptic-oblong, scape 

 solitary. H. /. & T. FL Ind. 27. Ficaria glacialis, Fkcli. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Stracliey & Winterl. ; Sikkim, alt. 16-18,000 ft., 

 Hook.f. DISTRIB. Siberia, Dahuria. 



Root fibrous. Leaves ^-1^ in., somewhat fleshy, obtuse, entire or crenate; petiole 

 as lon^r, sheathing at the base. Scape erect, 1-4 in., thickened upwards. Flowers 

 | in. diam. Sepals elliptic, obtuse. Petals 12-15, narrow-oblong, twice as long as the 

 sepals. 



2. O. polypetala, H.f. & T. FL Ind. 27 ; leaves orbicular crenate-lobed, 

 scapes usually several. Ranunculus polypetalus, Royle III. 54, t. 11, f. 2. 

 Callianthemum Endlicheri, Walp. Rep. i. 33. 



INNER ALPINE and TIBETAN HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 12-15,000 ft. 



Small, tutted; roots fibrous. Leaves |-2 in. diam., membranous, base cordate, some- 

 times with 3 crenate lobes. Scapes 2-4 in., weak. Flowers 1 in. diam. Petals oblong- 

 spathulate. Aclienes as in 0. glacialis. 



9. CAX.TKA, Linn. 



Herbs with stout creeping rootstocks. Leaves chiefly radical, ovate or 

 cordate. Flowers few, terminal, regular, white or yellow. Sepals 5 or more, 

 petaloid, deciduous, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens many. Carpels several, 

 sessile. Follicles many, many-seeded. Seeds many, 2-seriate, with a promi- 

 nent raphe and thick funicle. UISTRIB. N. and & temp, regions; sp. 5-6. 



1. C. palustris, Linn. ; stem branched leafy, leaves reniform or deltoid 

 with spreading lobes. H.f. & T. FL Ind. 40. C. Himalensis, Don Prodr. 

 195 ; Royle III. 54. C. Govaniana, Wall. Cat. 4710 : tioyle ILL 64. C. pani- 

 culata, Wall. Cat. 4711. 



Marshes of the WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Nipal, alt. 

 8-1 0,000 ft. DISTHIB. Temperate Europe, Asia, and N. America. 



Jt'ootstock stout, densely fibrous. Stem stout, 624 in. Radical leaves long-petioled, 

 2-5 in. diam., entire or finely or coarsely toothed; upper sessile. Flowers 1-2 in. diam. 

 Follicles variable in number and length of style. The leaves are never quite entire in 

 Indian specimens, and are often more closely- and smaller-toothed than in European. 



VAU. 1. normalis; flower yellow. 



VAK. 2. alba; flowers white. 0. alba, Jacq. ex Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. vi. t. 4. 



2. C. scaposa, II. /. & T. Fl. Ind. 40 ; leaves all radical oval, scapes 

 many 1-flowered. 



