30 1. HANUNCULACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [amieifwia, 



formed stamens) 1-8, small, clawed, 2-liorned at the tip. Stamens many, 

 filaments slender. Carpe/s 1-8, many-ovuled. Frutt oi many-seeded tol. 

 licles. Seeds compressed, testa smooth or scaly.— Disteib. Europe, N. Asia^ 

 !N. America; species about 8. 



1. C. foetlda, Linn.; leaflets ovate or lanceolate serrate glabrous or 

 downy, racemes panicled. H.f. <Ss T. Fl. Ind. 59. C. frigida, Royle III. 57, 

 Actsea cimicifuga, L.; DC. Prodr. i. 64. A. frigida, Wall. Cat. 4725. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Bhotan, Griffith, to Gores and Kashmir; alt. 7-12,0001 

 ft. — DisTKiB. E. Europe, Siberia. 



Stem 3-6 ft., leafy, branched, glabrous below, tomentose above. Leaflets 2-3 in., 

 pale beneath, terminal often 3-lobed. Racemes rarely simple. Flowers small, yellowish, 

 Peiok more or less 2-fid. Follicles 4-8, 4 '"■ long. 



19. FIEOHIA., Linn. 



Erect, stout, leafy, perennial herbs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 compound. Flowers large, solitary or panicled, white or red. Sqjals 5, 

 herbaceous, persistent. Petals 5-1 0, larger than the sepals. Stamens many, 

 Carpels 1-5, girt below by a fleshy disk, many-seeded. Fruit of 1 or more 

 coriaceous few-seeded follicles. Seeds large, subglobose, testa thick ; alba- 

 men fleshy. — Disteib. N. temp, zone ; species 3-4. 



1. P. emodi, Wall. Cat. 4727 ; flowers usually in the axils of the upper 

 leaves long peduncled, follicles 1 rarely 2. Royle III. 57 ; Hooh.f. in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5719. P. officinalis, H.f. & T. FL Ind. 60 {not of L.). 



West Temperate Himalaya ; alt. 5-10,000 ft., from Kumaon to Hazara. 



Erect, 1-2 ft., glabrous. Leaves 6-12 in., once or twice ternatisect; leaflets decur- 

 rent, entire or incised, ultimate segments oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous, glaucous beneath. Flowers 3-8; buds globose ; bracts 2-3, leafy, appressed 

 to the caly^K. Sepals rounded, outer with a leafy point. Follicles ovoid, obtuse, stri- 

 gose or glabrous. — The specimens from the outer Himalaya are usually l-carpellary, 

 from the inner 2-carpellary. 



Vab. 1. EMODI proper ; follicles strigose with yellow-brown hairs. 



VATt. 2. glaerata; follicles glabrous.— Very near the Siberian P. albiflora, but 

 monocarpellary. 



Order II. DII.I.E]>nACE.a:. (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Trees shrubs or herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 entire or toothed (pinnatipartite in Acrotrema), exstipulate with sheathing 

 petioles, or more rarely with lateral deciduous stipules. Flowers yeUow or 

 white, often showy. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent. Petals 5 (rarely 3 or 4) 

 deciduous. Stamens many, hypogynous, many-seriate ; anthers innate, with 

 lateral slits or terminal pores. Carpels 1 or more, free or cohering in the 

 axis; styles always distinct; ovules amphitropous. solitary or few and 

 ascending, or many and attached to the ventral suture. Fruit of follicles, 

 or indehiscent and subbaccate. Seeds solitary or many, arillate, testa crus- 

 taceous, raphe short, albumen fleshy ; embryo minute, next the hilum.— 

 Disteib. Chiefly tropical ; species about 200. 



Teibb I Delimeae. FUaments thickened upwards ; anthers short, cells 

 remote oblique. 



