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densely pubescent on the under side: flowers middle sized, fel~ 
lowish. 
Southern Ghauts. Travancore. Assam. Silhet. Bengal. 
Flowering in the rainy season. 
GENUS Il. THALICTRUM. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Thallo, to grow green, alluding to the bright 
colour of the young shoots. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous, never climbing: leaves alternate, 
generally much divided: petiole dilated at the base: sepals 4-5, 
imbricated in estivation: petals none: achenia several, without a 
tail, stalked, sometimes furrowed : seed pendulous. 
(1) T. crypnocarrum. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 2. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 48. 
Spec. Cuar. Flowers bisexual: leaves triternate, fringed at the 
base : leaflets wedge-shaped, glabrous coarsely toothed: panicles 
few-flowered : achenia stalked, deeply furrowed, terminated by the 
hooked style. 
' Neilgherties, Khasia mountains. Flowering from July to 
September. ; 
(2) T. Datzevuit. (Hook.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 2. 
Engrav. Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 856. 
Srec. Cuar. Height one foot: leaves ternately divided : leafs 
lets large, rounded, kidney-shaped, deeply cordate, crenato-lobate : 
panicle small, flowers in clusters: seeds oblong, furrowed. 
East side of Hurrychunder, Bombay. 
(3) T. Cuetmoni. ( Dec.) 
Ident. Dec. prod. U. p. 11.—Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. 
p. 13. 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous: leaves ternately decompound: leaf+ 
lets roundish, crenato-lobate, cordate at the base, glaucous beneath : 
sepals elliptic, obtuse: filaments filiform, scarcely dilated at the 
apex: anthers mucronate: panicles large, terminal, branches at 
length elongated, racemiform, almost leafless: stipules of the lower 
leaves large, adhering to the petioles: flowers long-pedicelled, 
largish, purplish, or often a beautiful purple: achenia numerous, 
dolabriform long-staiked, 3-nerved on either side, and apiculated 
with the straight or incurved style. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in July and August, 
