Naravelia.] i. RANUNCULACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 7 



4-5._ Fetdh 6-12, narrow, longer than the calyx. Achenes narrow, long 

 stipitate, with long-bearded styles. — Disteib. Two E. Asiatic species. 



1. N. zeylanlca, DC. Syst. i. 167 ; more or less pubescent, leaflets 

 broad-ovate, sepals linear-spathulate. WaU. Oat. 4687 ; W.& A. Prodr. 2 ; 

 H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 3. Atragene zeylanica, L. ; Roxb. Cor. PL n. t. 188 ; Fl. 

 Ivd. ii. 670. 



Tropical forests of the Himalaya, from B. Nepal eastward, Benoal, Assam, E. and 

 W. Peninsulas, Ceylon. — Disteib. Java. 



Leaflets usually cordate at the base, entire or coarsely toothed, often tomentose below, 

 sometimes pubescent on the nerves only. JFlowers J-f in. diam. SepaU pubescent 

 outside, twice as long as the glabrous petals. 



2. N. laurifolla, WaU. Gat. 4685 j glabrous, leaflets narrow, acuminate, 

 base usually acute, petals very long hnear not spathulate. H. f. & T. Fl. 

 Ind. 3. N. Pinlaysoniana, Watt, GaJt. 468 (achenes diseased, subulate, beard- 

 less, corky, seedless). 



Eastern Peninsula ; Mergui to Malacca and Penang. — Distrib, Eastward to the 

 Philippines. 



3. ANEIMCOME, Linn. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves radical, lobed or divided. Flowers on 1- or more- 

 flowered simple or branched scapes ; involucre 3-partite, bracts free or con- 

 nate. Sepals 4-20, petaloid, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens many, outer 

 sometimes deformed or petaloid. Carpels many; ovule 1, pendulous. 

 Fruii a head of sessile achenes, with short or long naked or bearded styles. 

 — DiSTEiB. Cold and temperate regions, very rare in the S. hemisphere ; 

 species 80. 



Sect. I. Pulsatilla, BC. Achenes with long feathery styles. 



1, A. albana, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Rat. Mosc. iii. 264 : softly hairy, 

 leaves pinnatisect, sepals erect. DC. Prodr. L 17 ; H.f.&T. Fl. Ind. 19. 

 A. Wallichiana, Royle III. 52. 



West Tibet, above 15,000 ft., Jacguemont, &o. — Disteib. N. Asia, from Armenia 

 to Baikal. 



Densely tufted. Soatstoch thick, woody, clothed with old leaf-sheaths. Leaf- 

 segments pinnatifid; ultimate broadly linear, incised. /Scope 6 in., fruiting 12 in. 

 Invol.'leaves connate at the base, 3-fid or pinnatifid above. Flowers solitary, nodding, 

 dull red-brown. Sepais with erect tips, silky outside, about as long as the stamens. — 

 Probably an alpine state of the European A. pratensis, but the invol. is less divided. 

 Tibetan specimens are usually smaller than the Siberian, but not always. 



Sect. II. Eriocepbalus, II. f. & T. Achenes with short styles, imbedded 

 in dense wool. 



2. A. biflora, DC. Syst. i. 201 ; rootstock tuberous, Scape glabrous, 

 leaves 3-partite or 3-foliolate, segments rounded, flowers 1-3 small. H.f.& 

 T. Fl. Ind. 20. A. Gordschakowii, Ear. & Kir. in PI. Soong., No. 14.— 

 Griff. It. notes, 349. 



Kashmie ; in diy stony places, alt. 4^6000 ft.— Disteib.' Turkestan and E. to Persia. 



Scape 2-8 in., slender," usually quite glabrous. Radical leaves long-petioled ; seg- 

 ments suborbicular or broadly ouneate, palmately-lobed or partite. Invol. leaves sessile, 

 lobed to the middle. Flowers dull red; pedicels pubescent, lateral with a 2-leaved in- 

 Tolucre, the terminal naked. 



