,] I. RANUNCITLACE^. (Hook. f. & TioDlS.) 21 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



M. vestitus, Wall. Cat. 4707. The specimens consist of a few long-pedoled radical 

 leaves. 



-fi. bvlbdsus, L. {E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 37). Probably intercalated by mistake amongst 

 Boyle's Indian Plants. It has been found by no one else. 



8. OXirGXlAFKIS, Eunge. 



Dwarf perennial glabrous stemless plants, with 1-flowered scapes. Leaves 

 entire. Flowers regular, yellow. Sepals 5, persistent, enlarged after flower- 

 ing. Petals 10-15, with a nectariferous pit on the claw. Stamens many. 

 Achenes many, membranous, in a globose head, beaked by the straight subu- 

 late persistent style. Seed erect. — A genus of two species, differing from 

 Ranmiculus in the persistent sepals. 



1. O. g'laclalls, Bunge En. PI. Alt. 35; leaves elliptic-oblong, scape 

 solitary. H.f.&T. Fl. Ind. 27. Ficaria glacialis, Fincfi. 



Alpine Himalaya; Kumaon, Strachey & Winterh. ; Sikkim, alt. 16-18,000 ft., 

 Hooh.f. — DisTRiB. Siberia, Dahuria. 



Moot fibrous. Leaves 4-14 in-i somewhat fleshy, obtuse, entire or crenate ; petiole 

 as lon^, sheathing at the base. Scape erect, 1-4 in., thickened upwards. Flowers 

 f in. diam. /Sepals elliptic, obtuse. ^Petals 12-15, narrow-oblong, twice as long as the 



2. O. polypetala, R.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 27 ; leaves orbicular crenate-lobed, 

 scapes usually several, kanunculus polypetalus, Royle III. 54, t. 11, f. 2. 

 CalUanthemum Endlicheri, Walp. Rep. i. 33. 



Inheb Alpine and Tibetan Himalaya, from Kashmjr to Kumaon, alt. 12-15,000 ft. 



Small, tufted ; roots fibrous. Leaves J-2 in. diam., membranous, base cordate, some- 

 times with 3 crenate lobes. Scapes 2-4 in., weak. Flowers 1 in. diam. Petals oblong- 

 spathulate. Achenes as in 0. glacialis. 



9. CAX.TKA, Linn. 



Herbs with stout creeping rootstocks. Leaves chiefly radical, ovate or 

 cordate. Flowers few, terminal, regular, white or yellow. Sepals 5 or more, 

 petaloid, deciduous, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens many. Carpels several, 

 sessile. Follicles many, many-seeded. Se^ds many, 2-seriate,, with a promi- 

 nent raphe and thick funicle. — Uisteib. N. and 8. temp, regions; sp. 5-6. 



1. C. palustrls, Linn. ; stem branched leafy, leaves renif orm or deltoid 

 with spreading lobes. H-f. & T. Fl. Ind. 40. G. Himalensis, Don Prodr. 

 195 ; Moyle III. 54. C. Govaniana, Wall. Gat. 4710 ; Royk III. 54. C. pani- 

 culata, Wall. Cat. 4711. 



Marshes of the Western Tempekate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nipal, alt. 

 8-10,000 ft. — DiBTRiB. Temperate Europe, Asia, and N. America. 



iiooisioci stout, densely fibrous. /Stem stout, 6-24 in. Jiadicalleaves long-petioled, 

 2-5 in. diam., entire or finely or coarsely toothed ; upper sessile. Flowers i-2 in. diam. 

 Follicles variable in number and length of style. — The leaves are never quite entire in 

 Indian specimeus, and are often more closely- and smaller-toothed than in European. 



Var. 1. normalis; flower yellow. 



Vak. 2. aWa; flowers white.— C. alba, Jacq. ex Gamh. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. vi. t. 4. 



2. C. scaposa, E. /. & T. Fl. Ind. 40 ; leaves all radical oval, scapes 

 many 1-flowered. 



