Plants of the Punjab. 



445 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals none, 



than the outer, sometimes longer, stamens 8-12, style 

 divided almost to the base into 4-5 erect short arms with 

 cm-ved tips ; capsule 1 in. diam., yellow-brown, 4-5-valved, 

 seeds many, ovoid, scarlet. 



Herbs. Unbranched, with Opposite Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Callianthemum 

 cachemirianum, 



Eanuxculace^s;. 

 F.B.Li. 14. 

 Himalava, 

 9-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Trollius acaulis, 



Eanunculace^. 

 F. B. L i. 22. 

 Himalava . 

 11-13,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Isopyrum 

 thalictroides, 



Ranunculace-^. 

 F. B. I. i. 23. 

 Himalaya, 

 Lahul. 



Corydalis rutaefolia, 



Fumariack^. 

 F. B. Li. 122. 

 Himalaya. 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



Petals ununited. 



small, perennial, stemless, densely tufted, smooth, 

 with waxy bluish-green gloss, root fibrous ; leaves all radi- 

 cal, pinnately divided into deeply cut rounded segments, 

 long-stalked ; flowers 1-1| in. diam., white, on one-flowered 

 stalks, 2-4 in., shorter than the leaves, sepals 5, soon fall- 

 ing off, broadly rounded, petals 8-12, 3 times larger than 

 the sepals, a pit at the base, oblong-wedge-shaped, broadly 

 notched, stamens many ; fruits few. large ovoid ; achenes 

 tipped by the short style. 



small, perennial, rootstock stout, fibres thick, stem 

 3-6 n., longer in fruit ; base clothed with thick fibres, 

 leafy above the middle ; leaves radical, long-stalked, deeply 

 palmately divided, lobes oblong-lanceolate, stem leaves 



1 to 3, similar, base of stalk sheathing ; flowers 2 

 in. diam., solitary, sepals 6-8, broad, oval, blunt or entire, 

 spreading, petals 12-16, blade oblong, stamens very many ; 

 carpels many, 1 inch long when ripe, thin, wrinkled, 

 style persistent. 



small, perennial, rootstock horizontal, fibrous or scaly, 

 stem 4-8 in., slender; leaves radical, much divided, seg- 

 ments 2-3-lobed, wedge-shaped at the base, thin, stem 

 leaves alternate, 3-lobed ; flowers | in. diam., white, in 

 few-flowered terminal branching racemes, sepals 5-6, oval, 

 blunt, petals 5, very small, with a thread-like stalk, hooded, 

 stamens 10 or more ; follicles 2-4, oval, beaked by the 

 stylo. 



small, perennial, rootstock slender, stem 3-8 in. ; leaves 



2 or 3,' pinnately divided, segments with 3 leaflets, nearly 

 sessile ; flowers |-1 in., briglit purple, tips dark, in 6-12 

 flowered racemes, bracts oblong or lanceolate, leaf-hke, 

 sepals 2, small, scale-like, petals 4, outer petals dissimilar, ^ 

 upper one broad, concave, produced at the base into a 

 hollow spur about half as long as the petal, spur blunt, 

 lower one flat, narrow, inner petals narrow, keeled, their 



