24 I. RANUNCULACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Aquiltyia. 



coloured, deciduous. Petals 5, funnel-shaped, produced into a spur at the 

 base. Stamens many, inner reduced to scales. 6W/-yW.s .-) or mure, sessile ; 

 ovules many. Follicles many-seeded. Seeat with a crustaceous testa. 

 DISTRIB. North temperate zone ; species 5 or 6, with many subspecies and 

 varieties. 



1. A. vulg-aris, L. ; glabrous or pubescent, stem usually branched, leaves 

 biternately compound, lobes incised sessile or petiolulate, sepals larger than 

 the carpels and stamens, spur of petals gradually narrowed to the point. 



WESTERN]) TEMPERATE and SUBAL INE HIMALAYA. DISTKIB. Temp. Euru 

 Asia 



SUBSP. 1. VULGARIS proper ; glabrous or slightly pubescent, sepals ovati 

 hooked as long as the blade of the petal. A. vuLaii-, J'. &c. Tibetan r> -inn. 



SUBSP. 2. VISCOSA ; habit, &c. of vulyaris proper, but smaller, odorous, and covered 

 with glandular hairs. A. viscosa, Gouan, &c. Western Tibet, abundant. 



SUBSP. 3. PUHIFI.OKA ; softly pnboaoeBt, sepals ovate-lanceolate tapering to a line 

 point, spur short much curved. A. pnbillora, \\\dl. L'at. n. -4714; RuyL 111. t. 55. 

 Temperate outer Himalaya. 



Suitsp. 4. ALPINA ; pubescent or glandular, leaflets p-nerally much cut. 

 large, sepals obtuse or rabaonte, spur nearly straight. A. alpina, //., & 

 Ic. i. t. 48. A. glandulosa, Fisck. in DC. 1'rudr. \. 50. Alpine region of tL 

 Himalaya. 



Sri>i- f>. PYUKXAIOA ; softly pubescent or glandular often glaucous, flowers often 

 white and sweet-scented, sepals ovate acute, spur very lon^ slender straight ur hooked. 

 A. pyrenaica, 1>< '. J'rmlr. i. ,',(\. A. Kanawarensis, dn/ih. in .A/* 1 '/. I',,,/. l',,,t. t. ") : 

 Bat. Mag. t. 4493. A. Moorcm.iiaua, U '////. fat. n. 471:;: /.'"///< ///. 66. A. < >; ynij.ica, 

 Boiss. Fl. Ori'iit. i. 71. A. giauea, Lindl. ]'><>( l!f<j. xxvi. t. 4t'>. A. tVairran-. 

 in Mound's Jlotanist, iv. t. 151. Alpine and temperate western Himalaya and Tibet, 

 alt, 10-14,000 ft. 



Sunsp. 6. JUCUNDA ; stem simple, 4-8 in. leafless or with ono small leaf, flower very 

 large dark purple, sepals very !MI ;idlv (.yah 1 , spur bhurt much incurved. A. jucunda, 

 Fisch. & Mey.; Lid. PL lioss. i. 736. Kashmir. 



15. DELPHINIUM, Linn. 



Annual or perennial erect herbs. Leaves palmately lobed. / 

 racemed or panicled, irregular, white blue or purplish. ,s',y^/.< ->, fr-- or 

 cohering at the base, dorsal spurred behind. I't-tnls i-4, small; s]>urs of 

 the -2 dorsal developed within that of the sepal ; -2 Lateral epurlesfl orQ^ 

 M'iitit'n* many. Fn/Hctns 1-7. tieftls many, testa wrinkled or phi 

 DISTRIB. N. temperate zone ; species about 40, very variable. 



* Spur cylindric or inflated (not subulate or conical). 



1. D. uncinatum, JI.f.&T.; leaves 5-partite, segments inciso-pin- 

 natifid, flowers | in. long, spur inflated hooked obtuse. D. penicillatuin, 

 II. f. & T. FL 2nd. 48, not of Boissier. D. vestitum, Bolss. Fi. Or. i. !J2, not 

 of Wall. & Royle. 



Salt range of the PUNJAB, Vicary, and WEST HIMALAYA, from Banahal to Marri ; 

 on dry hills, Winterbottom, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., simple or sparingly branched, pubescent or glabrous, few-leaved. 

 Radical leaves 2 in. Flowers in long many-flowered densely glandnlar-hairy or glabrous 

 racemes. Spur equalling or shorter than the flower, more or less incurved. Aitl< iiur 

 petals deeply 2-fid, densely hairy. Follicles 3, straight. 



A West Asiatic form, which we formerly identified with D. penidllatum of Boissier, 

 who, however, wiih far better materials before him, considers it distinct. The glabrous 

 form was found at the Margala pass, near Kawal Tiudi, by Major Vicary. 



