13 t. EANUNCULACE*. (Hook, f. & Thoms.) 



Stem branched. Leaves small, tiniform id siz6 all tip the stem ; leaflets obovate- 

 coneate, 3-tlobed, reticulate, pale beneath, all petioled, mid-leaflets longeet-petioled. 

 Panicle with 1 or few flowers at the ends of long branohea. /Sepals 3-nerved, ovate, 

 acate. Achenes 3-S, obovate, dorsal suture straight. 



Sect. II. EnthaJictrvixa, DC. ^cA«nes not compressecj, oval or oblong, 

 Sessile or stalked (see 11, alpinimi, and 14, Punditanum). 



* Achenes Elongate, more of less stipitate. Anthers with a very short 

 beak or 0. 



7. T. virg'atum, II. f. <& T. Fl. Ind. 14 ; leaves subsessile simply ter- 

 nate, flowers small white, achenes many small erect acute at each end 

 ribbed, stigma straight. 



Eastebm Himalaya, inner valleys of Sikkim, alt. 6-10,000 ft., Hooh.f. BhotaS, 

 QrigUh (It. notes,, 284). 



trlabroas. Stem erect, 1-1 4 ft. LSajkts 4-1 ih„ coriaceons, reticulate, Orbicular, 

 6-7-lobed, base cuneate, glaucous beneath. Panicle decompound, spreading, bracts 

 minute. Anther's not beaked. AeherUes 10-^5, very short^stalked. 



8. T. rutaBfolium, H,f. & T. Fl. Ind. 14; glabrous, weak, straggling, 

 leaves decompoundly pinnate, flowers racemed very small greenish, achenes 

 few many-ribbed oblong curved, style incurved. 



Western Tibet, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Thomson; interior of Sikkim, alt. 1^,000 ft., 

 Sook.f. 



More or less glaucous. Stem 1-2 ft. Leaf-sheath auricled; divisions stjpellate; 

 leaflets Very small, 3-lobed or -partite, base cnlieate. Panicle with long rigid simple 

 branches; pedicels spreading or deflexed. Anthers short; shortly beaked. Aehenei 

 shortly stipitate, abi-uptly deflexed, beaked by the «tyle.— The Sikkim Bpeoini««iB atS 

 greener and more luxuriant than the Tibetan, and have longer aoheflefi. 



9. T. pedunculatum, Edgew. in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xx. ' SY ; leaves 

 3-ternate, flowers large white, achenes elongate strongly ribbed, style in- 

 curved. E.f. & T. Fl. Ind. U ; Grif. Itin. not. 348. 



Westekn Temperate Himalaya ; Simla to KafiHstan, alt. 6-8000 ft., EdgewoHh, &o. 



GlabTous 'Stem 1-2 ft. LealieS loBg^petioled, primary and secondary divisions 

 long-stalked ;_ leaflets membranous, 1 in. diam., orbiculaf or cuneate-obovate, 3-7^ 

 lobed. Panicle ternimal ; pedicels long. SepaU variable in size, i-1 in., oblong, 

 bbtase, twice as long as the stamens. ATvthers not pointed, short. Achenes i-lin., 

 hnear-oblong, tapei-mg at both ends. — Griffith's Kafiistan specimens are llrg^ 

 flowered than the Himalayas. 



tin^^fT" '»«*«"atum, E.f. & T Jl. Ind. 15 ; diffusely bfatiched, leaves 

 terr^ately decompound, flowers smaU white, achenes tapering into a straight 

 beak half their length, tip hooked. r o s 



SiiSm^XI/ "'^''^*''' ^^*" ^~^^'°'"' '^•' '"^' ^''"' ^™'^' ^"ny^'^ord, &o., to 



14"pit"::S"*' °''"'' "'"''■ «-^-«^^-(«*-lked in 11, alpir^nn and 

 t Leaves simple, ome m- twioe ternale, of pinnate (rarely 2-pinnMe). 

 11. T. alplnum, L. ; BU.Prodr. i. 12 ; small, slender leaves all radical 



Royhia. 51. T. acaul^i Gam^. m >4.™S t!^, A "^"Siwtu«, 



