16^ I. HANUNCULACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Bmm&ilus. 



7. XtAlTVireVXiirS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire lobed or dissected.^ Stipvki 

 membranous or 0. Flowers usually panic! ed, white or yellow. Sepah 3-5,: 

 caducousj imbricate in bud. Petals usually 5, rarely 0, often ^ndular 

 near the base. Stamens m^-aj. Ca?-pe& many ; styles short ; ovule 1 ascend- 

 ing. FruU a head or spike of beaked or apiculate achenes. — DisTRiB. All 

 temperate and cold regions ; species about 160. 



Sect. L Batracbium. Water plants. Flowers whit& Achenes trans- 

 versely wrinkled, sometimes obscurely. 



1. It. aquatllls, L. ; var. tricJwphyllus ; leaves all submerged capil- 

 laceo-multifid, stipules ^-adnate, auricles large, flowers small, stamens few. 

 K. aquatUis, Don in Royle III. 54; E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 29. 



West Himalaya, from Kumaon to the ladus. Bast and West Tibet. Plains of 

 the Pdhjab, as far south as Delhi and Saharunpore. — Distkib. Temperate N. and S. 

 hemispheres. 



The Indian forms have heen identified hy Mr. Baker with trichophylha, and its ssb- 

 Tarieties Droitetii and pantothrix. Large flowered speoiaens from Hanle in Tibet 

 differ from ti-ue aquatiUs chiefly in the absence of floating leaves. A small greener 

 terrestrial variety grows in the Punjab. Floating leavea are invariably absent in the 

 Indian plant. 



Sect. IL Ceratocephalus, Moench (genus). Annual herbs. Fhweri 

 yeUow. Achenes gibbous at the sides, with a long terminal beak. 



2. R. falcatus, L. ; leaves 3-fid or pinnatifid, scapes longer than the 

 leaves 1 -flowered. Ceratocephalus falcatus, Pers. ; II.f..& T. Fl. Ind. 28. 

 C. orthoceras, DC. ; Deless. Ic. sel. i t. 23. Anemone cynosurus, Grif. la, 

 PI. iv. t. 660, f. 1. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Kishtwar westwards. Punjab, dry grassy places at 

 Peshawur, Stewart. — Distrib. S. E. Europe and W. Asia, 



Glabrous or a little woolly. _ Leaves all radical, segments narrow-linear, entire or 

 3-fid : petiole margined, tapering downwards. Scapes 1 or more, 1-3 in., longer than 

 the leaves. Flowers small. Stamens 5-15. Achenes with the beai straight or 

 curved. — A very variable little plant, of which 7 or 8 speties have been made ; Boissier 

 reduces them to 2, a hooked and straight beaked, having never seen intermediates, of 

 which we have seen many. 



Sect. m. Kecatonla, DC. Perennial, rarely annual. Flowers yellow 

 (in the Indian species). Achenes smooth or granular, not muricated or 

 tubercled, shortly beaked. 



* Kadical or all the leaves undivided (except sometimes in 7, j/idchellm). 



3. R. Lingua, L. ; tall, erect, glabrous, leaves lanceolate, flowers laraet. 

 petals 5. BG. Prod/r. i. 32; E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 30. 



West Himalaya ; Kashmir Lake, Jacquemont, &o.— Distkib. Temperate N hemi- 

 sphere. 



, ^oo«stocfc creeping. ^Ttem 2-3 ft., hollow. Leaves 4^ in., sessile, l-amplexicaul 

 entire or remotely toothed, veins parallel, venules reticulate. -Ffoajir J sulipamcledt. 

 Achenes pitted ; beak, broad, flat. *^ 



4. ». renlformis, Wall. Cat. 4709; erect stem softly hairy, leaves' 

 broadly oval or orbicular coarsely toothed, petals 12-15 W & A Pmdr -i ■ 

 Wight III. i.t. 2; Ic.t.7&; E.f. & T. Fl.Lid.ZQ. "'•'^ ^■-f'-ocir.S, 



