8 I. EANUNCULACEAE. [Ranunculus. 



liin. in diameter, yellow. Sepals broadly oblong, woolly. Petals 5 or more, 

 emarginate or obcordate, with one or two glands near the base. Achenes 

 numerous, viscid, tumid ; style long, slender. — Hook, f., Handbk. N.Z. Fl. 4. 

 R. Ruahinicus, Colenso in Trans. N.Z.I, xviii. (1885) 256, has a single glandular 

 depression at the base of the petal. R. sychnopetala, Col.,, I.e. xxv. (1892) 324, 

 and xxvi. 313, is a monstrous state, with from 40 to 45 petals. 



NOETH Island : Hikurangi, Bast Cape ; Ruahine and Tararua Ranges ; Tongariro, Rua- 

 pehu, &a. SOUTH Island : Mountains of Nelson, not unfrequent. Marlborough : Kaikoura 

 Range, &c. 2,000ft. to 6,000ft. 



Var. lobulatus. Leaves membranous, suborbicular, deeply lobed or sinuate, with few weak 

 hairs ; rarely peltate or subpeltate. Flowers not seen. Marlborough : Kowhai River, 500ft. 

 Mount Fyfie, 3,000ft. T. K. Oct., Nov. 



A magnifioent species, originally discovered by Colenso. The long sheathing-base of the 

 petiole is ciliated at the margins. 



4. R. Godleyanus, Hook. /., Handbk. 723. A stout, erect, glabrous 

 species. Leaves all radical, petioles fin.— lin. broad, 3in.— 6in. long, shortly 

 sheathing at the base. Blade broadly oblong or almost reniform, rounded at 

 the apex, coarsely crenate, coriaceous or fleshy, with radiating nerves. Scape 

 stout, exceeding the leaves, naked below, with two or more sessile or stalked 

 crenate bracts. Peduncles numerous, springing from the axils of the bracts, 

 2in.— 4ia. long, naked or with one or two secondary bracts above the middle. 

 Flowers liin. in diameter or more. Sepals 5, broadly oblong. Petals 5, 

 broadly obcordate, with 1—3 naked pits at the base. Receptacle pilose. 

 Achenes very numerous, with few hairs, forming a dense head, narrowed into 

 the slender curved style. 



SOUTH Island : Canterbury : Whitcomb's Pass. 4,300ft. Haast ! Enys I J. B. Armstrong I 

 A noble species. The flowers are less numerous than in B. insignis, but more highly coloured. 



5. R. Buchanani, Hook, f., Handbk. 5. Root - fibres stout, fleshy. 

 Scapes stout, erect, 6in.— 12in. high or more, leafy above, 1-flowered. Whole 

 plant more or less villous or rarely glabrate. Radical leaves on rather stout 

 petioles, 2in.— Sin. long, with short, broad, scarious sheaths ; blade broadly reni- 

 form, 2in.— 6in. broad, ternatisect, the main divisions petiolate, broad, cuneate- 

 lobed or incised, or coarsely toothed, or often cut into narrow linear segments ; 

 rarely entire. Cauline leaves on very short petioles or sessile, excessively divided 

 often to the base. Flowers ]^in.-25in. in diameter. Sepals 5, villous. Petals 

 numerous, linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, shortly clawed with a gland near 

 the base. Receptacle oblong, papillose. Achenes turgid, pilose, with the dorsal 

 margin acute ; style long, flexuous. 



SOUTH Island: Otago : Lake district, Buchanan I Mounts Bonpland, Tyudall, and Aspir- 

 ing, Petrie I Dec, Jan. 



A remarkable species. The cauline leaves often present the appearance of whorls of narrow 

 linear bracts. Flowers white, rarely yellow. 



6. R. nivicola, Hook., Ic. PI. t. 571, 572. Stem erect, branched, 

 robust or slender, lft.-2ift. high, more or less clothed with soft white spreadino- 

 hairs or nearly glabrous. Radical leaves on stout petioles 4iu.-12in. long, with 



