6 
6-8: achenia glabrous: style hooked, persistent: flowers white, 
purple outside. - 
Khasia mountains. Neilgherties. Flowering from May to 
August. 
(2) A. ELoncata. (Don.) 
Ident. Don. prod. 194.—Hook. & Thoms. flor. Ind. I. p. 25. 
Sprc. Cuar. Stem erect, glabrous or slightly pubescent: leaves 
tripartite, long-petioled: middle ségment 3-lobed, lateral ones 2+ 
lobed, coarsely cut and serrated : involucres small, 3-leaved: pedun- 
cles dichotomous or imperfectly umbellate, the terminal one without 
involucels, the lateral ones with a small 1-3-leaved involucel, 
simple or umbellate: achenia few, oval or orbiculate, somewhat 
oblique, narrow-winged and beaked with the short straight style. 
Khasia mountains. 
GENUS V. RANUNCULUS. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Rana, a frog, many species being found in moist 
places where those reptiles live. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous plants, with annual or perennial roots : 
leaves mostly radical, cauline ones seated at the base of the branches 
or peduncles: sepals 5, not free at the base, deciduous: petals 5, 
rarely 10: achenia ovate, pointed, somewhat compressed: seed 
erect. 
(1) R. renivormis. (Wail.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 3.—Hook. & Thoms. flor. Ind. 
I. p. 30. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ic. t. 75.—Ill. I. t. 2. 
Spec. Cuan. Erect, hairy: radical leaves roundish-ovate, coarse- 
ly crenated: lower scape-leaf toothed, narrowed at the base into 
a petiole, upper ones nearly linear: petals 10-13, twice as long as 
the calyx: heads of fruit‘ globose: achenia oblong, tumid: style 
nearly straight: flowers yellow. 
Pulney Hills. Neilgherries. Flowering in September. 
(2) R. susrinnatus. (W.& A.): 
Ident. W.&A. prod. I. p. 4. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ic. t. 49. 
Spec. Cuan. Diffuse, branched, hairy : radical leaves tripartite : 
lateral divisions, sessile, middle one stalked, all deeply 3-cleft : 
segments cut and serrated: petals twice as long as the villous calyx: 
