2 i. RANUNCULACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



Flowers regular solitary or panicled. 



Petals 0. leaves undivided ............ 9- CALTHA.J^ 



. 



Petals 0', leaves palmately divided ......... lo. (' VL.VTIIOI.ES. 



Petals bmail, carpels long-stalked .......... 1-- ( 



Petals small, carpels sessile, flowers yellow : ..... 11- IfiOLLJCB. 



Petals small, carpels sessile, flowers white ...... 13r ISOPTRUM. 



Petals as large as the sepals, all spurred ....... 14. AQU1L 



Flowers regular racemed. 



Carpel solitary, berried when ripe ......... 17. Aci 



Carpels 4-8, follicular when ripe .......... 18. CIMICJ 



Flowers irregular. 



Posterior sepal spurred ............. 1">- I 'KI.IM.INJI sr. 



Posterior fcepal vaulted ............. 10. .\...MITM. 



TRIBE V. Ponieae. Herbs or undershruKs. S)><tls herbaceous, imbri 

 cate. Carpels several, several-ovuled, girt by a fleshy disk. Fruit of coria 

 ceous few-seeded follicles. 



19. P.KUMA. 



1. CLEMATIS, Linn. 



Woody, usually climbing undershrubs. Z-/'w opposite. usually com' 

 pound, exstipulate, petioles often twining. ////A//-/ .< >:< axillary or terminal 

 tiepals usually 4, (to 8) petal*. id, vMvate! ]'*t<ils o. Stamsw many. 

 Carpels many, each with 1 pendulous ovule. Fruit a In ad of sessile or 

 stalked achenes, with long feathery styles, except in S-ct. YiticcUa. 

 All temperate climate-, rarer in the trpies : -] .cries about loo. 



SECT. I. Viticella, DC. Achenes beaked, without feathery styles. 



' 1. C. Cadmia, limn. <s II',///. '!. '. ,( T. /'/. ///'/. o ; C. 



sulcata, Wall. Cat. 4667. Thalictrum braeteatnm. /,'".///. /'/. 7W. ii. 671, 



K. r.K.Nd.vi. in tmpi, al jungles, and along the base of the HIMALAYA, from th 

 1< Assam. liiii.MA, QrijjUk, 



A slender subherbac'eous climber. Leaves 3-nalfily (lccompotinl 1-'-' in. 



ovate-oblong, glabrous, base oblique or conlau-. Floim-* axillary, > litary : peduncle 

 long, with two leafy bracts about tin- middli-. >iy//.< ^ to i, ^ to 1 in. spreading, 

 linear-oblong, blue. Achenes many, large, broadly uvate, beak lung straight, young 

 silky. 



SECT. II. Cheiropsis, DC. Achenes with long feathery styles. Flowers 

 in axillary fascicles; pedicels 1-fld. 



2. C. Napaulensis, I)(\ S>,*t. i. 164; leaves ternately divided, pedicela 



with 2 connute bracts at or near the middle. //./'. & T. Ft. Ind. 6; 

 Wall. Cat. 4680. C. montaua, I)*,,, 1'rodi'. 192 (not of otlu : 



TKMPKIIATE HIMALAYA from Garwhal to BLotai-. 



A slender nearly glabrous climber. Lraflits 1-2 in., ellipfic-lanceolat' 

 very narrow, entire toothed or 3-lobed, 3-ncrvcd, lateral olilujUf. J''/o/n'rx many, 

 pedicels shorter than the leaves; biacts forming a 2-lipped cup, in whieh the bud is 

 sessile. /Sepals 4, oblong, silky outside. Filan<ent8 glabrous, tapering from a broad 

 Hat base ; anthers short. Achenes flat, margined, hairy. 



;j. C. montana, Ham. ex DC. /Syxt. i. 164; leaves ternately divided, 

 pedicels naked, stamens glabrous. Wall. PI. As. liar. iii. t. 217; 11. J. 

 & T. Fl. Ind. 5. C. Punduana, Wall. Cat. 4862. C. anemonirlora, Don 

 Prodr. 192 ; Anemone curta, W all. Cat. 4690. 



