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Plants of the Pimjah. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Compound Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Thalictrum 

 cuitratum, 



Banunculaceje. 

 F.B.Li. 11. 



Himalaya, 

 8-1^,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Thalictrum 

 Chelidonii, 



EANUNCULACEiE. 



F.B.Li. 11. 



Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kulu. 



large, leaves large, sheaths with small ear-like stipules, 

 leaflets |-| in., bluntly 3-lobed, velvety beneath, flowers 

 greenish-white, sepals | in., achenes shortly stalked, 3-rib- 

 bed on each side, style straight or hooked ; for other 

 characters see the last species. 



large, much branclied, leaves large, leaflets of lower 

 leaves 1 in. diam., orbicular-heart-shaped, round-toothed 

 or lobed, smooth and pale beneath, flowers 1 in. diam., 

 lilac or purple in branching racemes with long stiff branches, 

 flower stalks to 1 in., tips bent down often in fruit, sepals 

 blunt, oblong with rounded ends, achenes long-stalked, 

 many, thin netted, style curved in ; for other characters 

 see the last species. 



Thalictrum 

 reniforme, 



EANUNCULACEiE. 



F.B.Li. 11. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-10,000 ft. 

 Mashobra, 

 Narkanda (Collett). 

 Kulu. 



Thalictrum 

 pauciflorum, 



EANUNCULACEiE. 



F. B. Li. 11. 



Himalaya, 

 7-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



large, much branched, glandular when young, leaves 

 large, sheaths large, ending in stipule-like processes, leaf- 

 lets 1-1 1 in. diam., orbicular-heart-shaped, slightly 3- 

 lobed, flowers ■|-| in. diam., greenish-white, sepals -/^ in., 

 soon fahing off, narrowly oblong, blunt-tipped, stamens as 

 long as the sepals, tinged with purple, achenes y\^ in., 

 style straight, velvety, 3-ribbed on each side ; for other 

 characters see the last species. 



medium size, smooth, leaves small, nearly sessile, 

 leaflets ovate with a broad tip, wedge-shaped, 3-4-lobed, 

 netted, all stalked, mid leaflet longest stalked, one or a 

 few small flowers in a branching raceme at the end of long 

 branches, sepals ovate, 3-nerved, short-pointed, achenes 

 3-5, ovate with a broad tip, 3-nerved on each side, style 

 straight ; for other characters see the last species. 



Thalictrum 

 pedunculatum, 



PiANUNCULACE^. 



F.B.Li. 12. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 'ft. 

 Simla, Mahasu, 

 Narkanda (Collett). 

 Murree. 



medium size, sometimes half training, smooth, leaves 

 3-10 in., long-stalked, pinnules very long v/ith 3 leafl-ets, 

 leaflets |-1 in., circular or ovate with a broad tip, usually 

 3-lobed, coarsely round-toothed, flowers large, white, lung- 

 stalked in terminal branching racemes, sepals variable in 

 size, l-l in., oblong, blunt-tipped, twice as long as the 

 stamens, achenes |-| in., linear-oblong, tapering at 

 both ends, strongly ribbed, style curved in ; for other 

 character.^ see the last species. 



