78 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Thaling, Tsumtong (King’s collectors!) ; Chumbi: on Pit-zé-la, Рап-Ка-18, Oey-güng-là ; 
Phari (King’s collectors !); Bhutan ; М. W. Himalaya ? 
Var. тү. ROTUNDIFOLIA ; leaves suborbicular, manifestly petioled, very broadly cuneate, rounded, 
or shallow-cordate at the base, trilobed to $ to $. Sikkim: near Thaling 13,000’, 
and in other localities (Cunningham, G. Gammie, King’s collectors 7). 
Subspecies II. CŒLESTINA, Franchet ; scapes erect or ascendent; leaves more or less long-petioled, 
long-cuneate, subtrilobed, lobes obtuse, middle one incised-crenate, lateral ones entire or scarcely crenate, 
r surface somewhat hairy, lower surface silky-villose ; sepals 5, 6—8 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, blue, 
sometimes white inside, silky outside ; carpels hirsute.— Yunnan. 
Subspecies III. оултлғолла P. Brühl; more or less villous; scapes sometimes elongate and upright, 
usually short, ascending or more frequently prostrate or procumbent; leaves long-petioled, ovate in 
outline, more or less cordate, trisect or trifolialate, 12—25 mm. long; middle segment cuneate-obovate, 
3-lobed or 3-partite; lateral ones usually }—} the length of the middle one, broadly obovate or 
suborbicular, trilobulate ; petiole usually 2 to 3 times the length of the blade; sepals 5, suborbicular 
or broad-elliptic, 5—8 mm. long, usually little longer than the androgynoecium ; ovaries hirsute, hairs 
rigid or rather soft, sometimes quite glabrous; achenes sometimes much compressed. 
Var. a. GEOCHARES; scapes usually prostrate ог procumbent, more rarely ascending, 4—10 ет. 
long ; sepals greenish-yellow (or quite yellow ?), more commonly dark-red or reddish- 
brown outside, white inside; ovaries hirsute or glabrous. North Tibet (Przewalski!); 
Kansu (Potanin); Tachienlu region (Pratt 176); Phari (King’s collector). 
Var. В. oRTHOCAULA; scapes erect or ascending, 15—20 cm. long; sepals yellow, bluish near 
base ; achenes much compressed, beset with softish hairs. Kumaon, near the Lebung 
pass, 14—15,000" (Duthie). 
Subspecies ТҮ. SAXICOLA, P. Brühl (= A. rupestris of the Flora of British India); scapes erect, 
slender, somewhat hairy ; leaves glabrous or somewhat villose, very long-petioled ; blade suborbicular or 
reniform in outline, cordate, trisect; segments subsessile or petiolulate; lateral segments little shorter than 
ihe middle one, 2—3 lobed; middle segment more petiolulate, subreniform, tripartite, divisions 8- (or 2-) 
lobed; segments and lobes overlapping, the latter entire lobulate or paucicrenate ; petiole slender, 2—6 
times the length of the blade; sepals elliptic or broad-obovate, 2—3 times as long as the androgynoecium ; 
carpels glabrous or more frequently with sparse rigid ‘hairs. —Kashmir (Fale. No. 28 /) Pir Panjal ; 
Nipal, in Gossain Than ; Sikkim, 15,000’ (according to Fl. of Br. Ind.). 
Subspecies V. OMAŁOCARPELLA, P. B.; villose; scapes ascending; leaves trisect, segments obovate, 
narrow-cuneate, the middle one longer and broader, deeply trilobed, lateral ones incised-lobate, lobules 
ly serrate-crenate ; sepals 6—9, 9—17 mm. long, 2—3 times the length of the androgynoecium, 
oblong, white with a lead-coloured spot; carpels сета flat, margined, Does glabrous or with a few 
rigid hairs ; style short, hooked.—Nipal (Scully 7). 
Subspecies УТ. овтовпова (TYPICA) ; usually very villose ; scapes erect, ascending, or prostrate, 
7—50 cm. long; leaves long-petio:ed ; blade reniform, suborbicular, pentagonal, or broad-ovate in outline 
(when broadly ovate, 4—6 cm. long), more or less cordate, sometimes trilobed to the middle, usually 
tripartite or trisect; lateral segments (2—) 3—$ the length of the middle one; segments cleft or lobed; 
sepals elliptic, obovate-oblong, or broadly obovate, 2:5 to 4 times the к of the androgynoecium ; 
carpels subcompressed, hirsute with rigid hairs, rarely sparsely hairy.—Gilgit ; temperate and Alpine 
Himalaya ; Yunnan. e 
However greatly the various forms of this subspecies differ from each other in the indumentum— 
densely villose to nearly glabrous,—the length of the scape, the form and depth of division of basal 
leaves, the size, form, and division of the involucral leaves, the colour of the sepals—yellow, yellow or 
white inside and blue or bluish outside, with or without а lead-coloured spot—hairiness of carpels : the 
variability is so great and the transitions so gradual that it appears to be a thankless task to split up 
