30 I. RANUNCULACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



formed stamens) 1-8, small, clawed, 2-horned at the tip. many, 



filaments slender. Carpels 1-8, many-ovuled. /'///// of many 

 licles. Seeds compressed, testa smooth or scaly. DlSTBJB, Europe, N. A.-ia, 

 W. America; species about 8. 



1. C. foetida, Linn.; leaflets ovate or lanceolate serrate glabrous or 

 downy, racemes panicled. //./. a- T. Fl. /////. :>:>. C. t'ri-ida. /;.>//// I 

 Actaea cimicifuga, L.; DC. Prodr. i. (34. A. friyida, H '///. ' 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Bhotan, Grijjith, to Gores and Kashmir; alt. 7-1 

 ft. DJSTKIB. E. Europe, Siberia. 



Stem 3-6 ft., leafy, branched, glabrous below, tomentose a' 



pale beneath, terminal often S-lobecL //</<v/// ( x raivly simple. 1 til, yellowish. 



Petals more or less 2-fid. Fullldts 4-6, i in. U>n-. 



19. PJEONIA, Linn. 



Erect, stout, leafy, perennial herbs or undershrnb-. / mate, 



compound. Fl"ir, r* lar-v. Military or panided. wiiiii- <>r red. 

 herbaceous, persistent. /V<//x ."i-ln, larger than tin.' sepals. 



' 



C< i //('!* 1-5, girt below by a nV>hy disk, many-seeded. /'///// of 1 or more 

 coriaceous I d follicles. Seed* 1;. . te>ta thick; 



men fleshy. DISTRIB. N. temp, zone : 



1. P. emodi, Wall. (,'///. 47^7 ; flowers usually in tin- axils of the upper 

 leaves long pedundrd, follicles 1 rarely -2. /.'<",/< ///. 57 : //""/.- /'. /// lint. 

 May. t. 5711). 1'. otlieinali>, 11. J. ,( T.' Fl. /</. - /..). 



Wi.sr TI:MIT. i:\ir. HIMAI.^ \ : M.I ft., from Kuni:mn i - Ha/.nra. 



Erect, 1-2 fl., i, r labn>r, >'. T.' in., OD06 <>r twin- t.-ni;itis.-.-t ; l-all.-t.- 



vont, entire or inci^i d, nlliiunte se^un-nts oblong or la:. !' acuminate, 



glabrous, glaucous ln-neath. i '. l'-afy, a;> 



to the calyx, tii'jm!* round.'. 1. outrr with a leafy p "int. i ovoid, olitn 



gose or glabrous. The specimens fmm the oilier Himalaya aie u.Mially L-cai] 

 from the inn. -r "J rarjirilary. 



YAK. i. KMOI.I projier ; to'.: Be with yellow-brown I 



VAK. 2. (ii.Ai-.KATA ; follicles glabrous. Very near tl. P. ullijfoni, but 



monocarpellary. 



ORDER II. DILLENIACE-flG. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Trees shrubs or herbs, sometimes eliml>i: alt-rnate, simple, 



entire or toothed (pinnatipartite in ^cro^rtfmo), exstipulate with sheathing 

 petioles, or more rarely with lateral deciduous stipules. Flmwrs yellow or 

 white, often showy. Sepal* f>, imbricate, per.-istent. /V/^/,s- r> (rarely 3 >r 4} 

 deciduous. Xt<nn> //x many, hypogyiions. many-seriate ; anthers innate, witli 

 lateral slits or terminal pores. C<iri><l* 1 or more, free or e. .hering in the 

 axis; styles always distinct; ovules amphitropous. solitary or few and 

 ascending, or many and attached to the ventral suture. /'///// of follicles, 

 or indehiscent and subbaccate. S<-'-<!* solitary or many, arillate, testa crus- 

 taceous, raphe short, albumen fleshy ; embryo minute, next the hilum. 

 DISTRIB. Chiefly tropical ; species about iMn. 



TRIBE I. Delimeae. Filaments thickened upwards ; anthers short, cells 

 remote oblique. 



