..] J. HANUNCULACE^. (Hook. f. &, Thoms.) IS 



Inner kanoes of the Himalayas, alt. 9-13,000 ft., from Kashmir, Jaaquemont, to 

 Sikkim, Hooh.f. 



Densely ttifted, glabrous, glaucous ; root fibrous. Leaves very numerous, long- 

 petioled, segments rounded, 2-3-seot ; pinules orbicular, deeply out. Scapes 2-4 in., 

 shorter than the leaves. Flowers I-I4 in. diam., white. Sepals broadly elliptic. Petals, 

 8-12, 3 times larger than the sepals, oblong-ouneate, retuse. Aclienes few, large, ovoid, 

 obtuse, rugose. 



6. ADONIS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves much divided. Sepals 5-8, petaloid, 

 coloured, imbricate. Petals 5-16, yellow or red, eglandular.. (Jarpds many; 

 style short ; ovule 1, pendulous, FruU a spike or head of many achenes 

 tipped with a short persistent style. — Disteeb. 3 Or 4 European and Asiatic 

 species. 



Sect. I. Adonia, DG. Annual erect herbs, with leafly stems and scarlet 

 flowers. 



1. A. aestivalis, L.; DC. Prodr. i. 24; petals spreading, achenes an- 

 gular, with a tooth on the inner angle near the beak. W. &A. Prodr. i. 3 ; 

 H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 25. A. IngUsii, RoyU III. 63. 



. Westekn Himalaya, in cornfields, from Kumaon to Kashmir, Hazara, and 

 Peshawur. — Disteib. Temperate Europe and Asia. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft., simple or branched, nearly glabrous. Leaves decomgoundly- 

 pinnate, segments filifonn. Flcnvers solitary at the ends of the branches, variable in' 

 size, scarlet with a dark purple eye. Achenes in an ovoid or oblong head, deeply pitted. 

 — Differs from A. autumncdis in the spreading petals, but there are many intermediates. 

 The achenes aSbrd a very variable character, too much used in dividing varieties of 

 this into species. 



2. A. scrobiculata, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 17 ; petals spreading, achenes 

 angular surrounded near the broad base by a flattened almost winged 

 collar. 



West Himalaya, Kishtwar, Stewart. — Distrib. Afighanistan. 



Doubtfully distinct from A. aestivalis, and only by the achenes which are more sharply 

 angled, less pitted, and rough with small liubercles ; the upper achenes seem to lose th& 

 basal wing. A. ma/rginala, Bienert in Herb. Bunge, seems to be the same plant. 



Sect. IL Consolig'o. Perennial herbs, with golden yellow flowers. 



3. A. clirysocyathus, H.f. ds T. ; petals at length spreading, achenes 

 ,not angular turgid, style tapering revolute. A. pyrenaica, H.f.& T. Fl. 

 Ind. 26 {not of £>G). Chkysocyathus (gen.), Falconer in Royle III. in- 

 trod. XXX. 



Western Alpine Himalaya, in Chamba and Kashmir, Ja^guemoni; Westers 

 Tibet in Deotsu and Guge, Strachy & Winterh. 



Bootstock scaly, horizontal. Stems several, erect, leafy, flowering 6-9 in., fruiting' 

 15 in. Badieal haves petioled, 3-6 in., deltoid, pinnately decompound, segments 

 nariow-linear or subcuneate. Mowers golden-yellow, 2 in. and more diam., buds glo- 

 bose. Sepals 7-8, obovate, acute, many-nerved. Petals 16-24, twice as long as the 

 sepals, narrow-obovate, obtuse. Achenes in a dense head, | in. diam., glabrous, flattened 

 anteriorly, dorsally convex and obtusely keeled.— The foliage and flowers closely re- 

 semble those of A. p!/renaica, to which in the absence of fruits we formerly referred it, 

 and from which it differs in the numerous much smaller achenes. 



