FLOBA OF BEITISH INDIA, 



ORDER I. RANUNCULACEJE. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves radical or alternate 

 (opposite in Clematidece). Stipules 0, or adnate to the petiole, rarely 

 free, blowers regular or irregular, 1-2-sexual, rarely bracteate. Dink 

 very rarely present (Pceonia). tiepals 5 or more, rarely 2-4, deciduous 

 (persistent in Pceonia), often petaloid, imbricate (valvate in Clematis] . 

 Petals 0, or 3-5 or more, hypogynous, imbricate, often minute or de- 

 formed. Stamens hypogynous ; anthers usually adnate and dehiscing late- 

 rally. Carpels usually many, free, 1-celled ; stigma simple ; ovules one or 

 more on the ventral suture, anatropous, erect with a ventral or pendulous 

 with a dorsal raphe. Fruit of numerous 1-seeded achenes, or many-seeded 

 follicles, rarely a berry. Seed small, albumen copious ; embryo minute. 

 DISTRIB. Abundant in temperate and cold regions ; genera 30, known species 

 about 300. 



TRIBE I. Clematideae. Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. 

 Sepals petaloid, valvate. Carpels 1-ovuled; ovule pendulous. Fruit of 

 many achenes. 



Petals 1. CLEMATIS. 



Petals many, linear 2. NAVAVELJA. 



TRIBE II. Anemone. Herbs. Leaves radical or alternate. Sepals 

 petaloid, imbricate. Carpels 1-ovuled ; ovule pendulous. Fruit of many 

 achenes. 



Petals 0, flowers involucrate 3. ANEMONE. 



Petals 0, flowers not involucrate 4. THALICTKUM. 



Petals 5-15, with a nectariferous pit 5. CALLIAKTHEMUM. 



Petals 5-16, with no nectariferous pit 6. ADONIS. 



TRIBE III. Ranunculeae. Herbs. Leaves radical or alternate. Sepals 

 herbaceous, imbricate. Carpels 1-ovuled ; ovules erect. Fruit of many 

 achenes. 



Sepals 3-5, deciduous, petals usually 5 7. RANUNCULUS 



Sepals 5 persistent, petals 10-15 8. OXYGRAPHIS. 



TRIBE IV. Helleboreae. Herbs or undcrshrubs. Leaves alternate. 

 Sepals petaloid or herbaceous, imbricate. Carpels several, many-ovuled. 

 Fruit of 1 or more follicles (berried in At-toea). 



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