10 1. BANUNCULACB^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Jnevume. 



Inker HmALArA, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, Widlich, &c. 



JRootstoch stout, woody. Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves long-petioled, 2-4 id. diam., renilorm- 

 cordate ; lobes broad, ouneate, 3-fid and orenate. Umbels many-flowered, simple or wittt 

 the side branches divided and involucellate ; iuvol. leaves cuneate-oblong, vanable, more 

 or less cut. Flowers 1 in. diam., white. Achenes broadly oval, with a sharp .straight 

 beak.— Perhaps only a form of ^.marcis8i/2ora, with less cut leaves, more compound 

 umbel, and differently shaped achenes. 



13. A. narclsslflora, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 21 ; densely -nllous, leaves 

 palmately 5-partite, segments deeply cut into linear lobes, scapes erect, 

 H.f. & T. A Ind. 24. 



Kashmik, Fcdconer, Winterhottom.—'DmTsrB. Alps of S. and Central Europe, W. Asia, 



Siberia, N. W. America. 



Very similar to and probably connected by intermediates with A. polyanthes, but 

 smaller, 1 ft. high ; leaves 1-2 in. diam. ; flowers simply umbelled, and achenes nearly 

 orbicular with an incurved beak, 



** Mowers in umbels or cymes {see 12, polyanthes). 



14. A. tetrasepala, Royle III. 63; glabrate, leaves deeply 5-lobed, 

 achenes obovate-oblong with a hooked beak. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 24. 



Western Himalaya, Marri, Kashmir and Kishtwar, alt. 8-11,000 ft. 



Mootstock woody ; crown fibrous ; buds, petioles, and young leaves woolly. Badical 

 leaves 3-10 in. diam., long-petioled, coriaceous, reniform or cordate, deeply 5-lobed ; 

 segments acute, entire lobed or inciso-serrate. Cyme often thrice branched, contracted 

 or effuse and 1 foot long ; invol. leaves large, broadly cuneate, sharply toothed. 

 Flowers white. — A large robust species allied to A. polyanthes. 



15. A. elongata, Don Prodr. 194 ; pubescent, leaves 3-partite, achenes 

 broadly oval with a short straight beak. H.f. & T. FL Ind. 25. A. rivu- 

 laris, WaU. Gat. 4692 {not of others). 



Temperate Himalaya, Garwhal, alt. 10,000 ft., Str. & Winterh.; Nipal, Wallich; 

 Khasia hills, alt. 5000 ft., H f.&T. 



Eootstock small, fibrous. Stem 2-3 ft:, slender, pubescent. Badical leaves 2-4 in. 

 diam., long-petioled, orbicular, base cordate, with a few soft hairs chiefly below ; lateral 

 segments deeply 2.1obed, mid-segment 3-lobed; lobes acute, inciso-dentate. Cymes 

 •elongate, few-flowered, twice or thrice divided, fascicles 2-3-flowered. Invol. leaves 

 oblong or broad-cuneate, variously toothed. Flowers white. — Eemaikable for the elon- 

 gate stems and scapes, 



4. TKAXiXCTRUnX, Linn. 



Erect, usually rigid, perennial herbs. Leaves compound ; petioles sheath- 

 ing, often auricled or stipuled. Flowers panicled or racemed, often poly- 

 gamous. Sepals 4-5, petaloid, imbricate. Petals 0. Starnens many. Carpels 

 few or many ; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit a smaU head of sessile or stalked 

 achenes; style persistent or deciduous. — Distrtb. Temperate and cold 

 northern regions, very rare in the S. ; species 50. 



Sect. I. Fbysocarpum, DC. Achenes stalked, laterally compressed, 

 flat or inflated. Leaves ternately decompound,.or in 6, ■paudjiorum 2-ternately 

 divided. 



1, T. ele^ans, Wall. Cat. 4728; stem 8-12 in,, leaves 2-3 in. glaucous 

 beneath, flowers small, anthers short mucronate, achenes long-stalked 

 ventral suture winged, Royle III. 51 \ H. f.& T. Fl. Ind. 13 ; Fdqew, in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 26. 



