78 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Thaling, Tsumtong (King’s collectors!) ; Chumbi: on Pit-ze-lä, Pan-ka-là, Oey-gung-là : 
Phari (King's collectors!) ; Bhutan ; N. W. Himalaya ? 
Var, y. ROTUNDIFOLIA ; leaves suborbicular, manifestly petioled, very broadly cuneate, rounded, 
or shallow-cordate at the base, trilobed to $ to 3. Sikkim: near Thaling 13,000’, 
and in other localities (Cunningham, G. Gammie, King’s collectors 1). 
Subspecies II. CELESTINA, 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, 
upper 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. ovarıroLıa Р. Brühl; more or less villous; seapes 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 trifslialate, 12—25 mm. long; middle segment cuneate-obovate, 
3-lobed or 3-partite; lateral oues usually 4—3 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-elliptio, 5—8 mm. long, usually little longer than the androgynoecium ; ovaries hirsute, hairs 
rigid or rather soft, sometimes quite glabrous; achenes sometimes much compressed. 
Far. а. GEOCHARES; scapes usually prostrate or procumbent, more rarely ascending, 4—10 сш. 
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—90 cm. long; sepals yellow, bluish near 
base; achenes much compressed, beset with softish hairs. Kumaon, near the Lebung 
pass, 14— 15,000’ (Duthie). | 
Subspecies IV. saxicora, 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 
the 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—8 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. OMALOCARPELLA, P. B.; villose; scapes ascending; leaves trisect, segments obovate, 
ae narrow-cuneate, the middle one longer ind broader, deeply trilobed, lateral ones incised-lobate, lobules 
~ sparsely serrate-crenate ; sepals 6—9, 9—17 mm. long, 2—3 times the length of the androgynoecium, 
= Oblong, white with а lead-coloured spot; carpels nearly flat, margined, quite glabrous or with a few 
rigid hairs ; style short, hooked.—Nipal (Scully /). 
X Subspecies VI. овтовпова (TYPICA); usually very villose ; scapes erect, ascending, о: or prostrate, 
Tu 0 cm. long; leaves long-petio.ed ; blade reniform, RT pentagonal, or broad-ovate in outline 
when broadly | ‚ovate, 4—6 em. long), more or less cordate, sometimes trilobed to the middle, usually 
ipartite or trisect 5 lateral segments (2—) 3—3 the length of the middle one; segments cleft or lobed; 
ellipti obovate-chlong, or broadly obovate, 2°5 to 4 times the length of the androgynoecium ; 
pressed, hirsute with rigid hairs, rarely sparsely hairy.—Gilgit ; temperate and es 
However greatly the various forms of this subspecies differ from са other in the oP 
d ni ely villose to nearly glabrous, —the length of tho 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 
e md arid blue or bluish outside, with or without a lead-coloured spot—hairiness of carpels : the 
p às so دو‎ — the transitions so gradual that it ез to be a thankless task to split up 
