No. I. 



CATALOGUE OF PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO WESTERN 

 INDIA IN AND NEAR THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



I. RANUNCULACE.E. 



1. NARAVELIA, DC. 



1. N. ZEYLANICA, DC. syst. 1, 167. Prod. 1, 10. Climbing ; 

 leaves broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, cordate or rounded at the 

 base, pubescent or tomentose beneath, rarely glabrous, surmounted 

 by tendrils ; petals linear spathulate. Syn. Atragene Zeylanica, 

 Linn. Rox. Cor. PI t. 188, Flor Ind. ii, 670. Hab. Southern 

 Ghauts only. 



2. CLEMATIS, Linn. 



1. C. SMILACIFOLIA, Wall, in As. Research, xiii, 414. Climb- 

 ing, quite smooth ; leaves very large, simple or ternate partite, gen- 

 erally entire, purple beneath, 5 to 10 inches long; panicles elongated, 

 many-flowered ; sepals oblong, acute, spreading or reflexed. DC. 

 Prod. 1,10; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4259; Syn. C. munroiana, Wight. 

 Illus. 1,5; C. affinis. Wight 111. 1,5; C. subpeltata, Wall. PI As. 

 Rar. t 20 ; C. smilacina Blume. Bijdr. i. Hab. Phoonda Ghaut. 



2. C. TRILOBA, Heyne, in Roth. nov. sp. 251. Climbing, all 

 softly silky ; leaves small, on longish petioles, simple or ternately 

 divided, elliptic or ovate. Hab. Mawul districts; flowers in Sep- 

 tember ; the flowers are large and white. Native name " Moriel" 

 or " Ranjae." 



3. C. GOURIANA, Rox. Fl Ind. ii, 670. Climbing ; all over 

 smooth, except the younger parts ; leaves very various, pinnately 

 or bi-pinnately divided ; segments ovate or oblong acuminate, mem- 

 branaceous, shining on the upper surface ; panicles decompound, 

 many-flowered ; flowers small, appear in October. In thickets on 

 the Ghauts ; pretty common. 



4. C. WIGHTIANA, Wall. Cat. 4674. Pubescent; leaves pin- 

 nate, segments, broadly ovate, 3-lobed, 2 to 3 inches long, some- 

 times 5-!obed, coarsely toothed, densely hairy beneath ; panicles 

 longer than the leaves, decompound ; seeds ovate, compressed, very 

 silky. W. and A. Prod. 1, 2; Wight. Ic. 935. On the highest 

 Ghauts, Mahableshwur, &c. 



