Ranunculus.] DILLENIACEAE, 5 



3. THALICTRUM DALZELLII, Hook. ; F. B. I. i. 18. 



Mysore, in the Bababudan Hills. 



5. Ranunculus, Linn. 



Annual or perennial, land or water herbs. Leaves entire, lobed 

 or dissected ; stipules membranous or 0. Flowers white or yellow, 

 single or panicled. Sepals 3-5, deciduous or caducous, imbricate. 

 Petals 5 or rarely more, very rarely 0, often bearing a nectary near 

 the base. Stamens many, l^rnit a head or spike of beaked or 

 apiculate achenes. 



Achenes not compressed, oblong-globose ; leaves long-stalked, oval or 

 orbicular, coarsely crenate only, usually cordate ; flowers yellow 



1. reniformi*. 

 Achenes compressed ; leaves deeply divided : 



Achenes finely and evenly pitted ; sepals spreading ; petals yellow 



2. subpinnatus . 

 Achenes tubercled or muricate ; sepals reflexed : 



Achenes 5 times longer than their beak, with a few blunt tubercles ; 



petals yellow 3. irallichianus . 



Achenes only slightly longer than beak, with prominent, usually 

 numerous and spiny tubercles; petals yellow ..4. muricutus. 



1. RANUNCULUS RENIFORMIS, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 16 ; W. & A. 3 ; 

 Wt. 111. i. t. 2, Ic. t. 75. 



Higher hills of the W. Ghats, usually at over 6,000 ft. 



2. KANUNCULUS SUBPINNATUS, W. & A. 4 ; Wt. Ic. t. 49. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris and Pulneys, at over 6,000 ft. 



3. RANUNCULUS WALLICHIANUS, W. & A. 4 ; F. B. I. i. 20 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 937. 



W. Ghats, common, usually at over 6,000 feet. 



4. RANUNCULUS MURICATUS, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 20. 



Nilgiris, banks of Ootacamund Lake at 7,000 ft. 



Family II. DILLENIACEAE. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, toothed or rarely pinnatipartite ; petioles with 

 sheaths and without stipules or without sheaths and with lateral 

 deciduous stipules. Flowers yellow or white, sometimes very 

 jarge. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent. Petals (3-)5, deciduous. 



