6 I. RANUNCULACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 



Vab. 1. WaUicMi; more slender, leaflets smaller narrower more membranous, 

 flowers fewer larger, buds tomentose. — W. Himalaya, Nipal, Bhotan. 



Vab. 2. Sikhmenis ; leaflets larger, coriaceous, flowers very numerous, smaller, 

 buds glabrous except the margins of the sepals. — Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., H.f. & T. 

 Mishmi and Naga hills, CfriffUh. 



18. C. connata, DC. Prodr. i. 4 ; glabrous, leaves pinnate, sepals not 

 ribbed, fil amentstapering to a point. Wall. Cat. 4679 ; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 11. C. venosa, Boyle III. 51 ; C. amplexicaulis, velutina and gracilis, 

 Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 24 



Temperate Himalaya, from Hazara to Sikkim, alt. 4-10,000 ft. 



A large woody climber, young parts with scattered hairs. Leaflets 3-7, distant, 

 2-4 in., broadly ovate-cordate, coarsely serrate or sub-3-lobed. Flowers in many- 

 flowered panicles. Sepals oblong, subacute, pubescent outside, densely tomentose 

 inside. Fila/ments narrow-linear below, hairy ; anthers short. Achenes silky-pubes- 

 cent. — Closely allied to 0. Buchananiana, but smoother, smaller flowered, and leaflets 

 narrower ; petioles often connate into a coriaceous or woody flat expansion. 



19. C. Buchananiana, DC. Syst. i. 140 ; boary or coarsely hairy, leaves 

 simply pinnate, sepals ribbed, filaments linear. H.f. iSo T. Fl. Ind. 10. 



Throughout the Tempekatb Himalaya, alt. 5-10,000 ft. Mishmi, Griffith. 



A large woody climber. Leaflets 5-7, 2-3 in., broadly ovate or suborbicular-cordate, 

 obtuse or acute, coarsely serrate or 3-5-lobed. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., in branched 

 many-flowered panicles, often sweet-scented. Sepals ' linear-oblong, many-ribbed, 

 tomentose on both surfaces. Filaments densely hairy; anthers elongate. Achenes 

 densely hairy. — Very variable, roughly divisible as follows : — • 



Vae. 1. rugosa; stem tomentose, leaves rugose and reticulate white and hoary espe- 

 cially beneath. C. Buchananiana, Wall. Cat. 4677. 



Vae. 2. vitifolia (sp. Wall. Cat. 4676) ; stem pubescent, leaves membranous slightly 

 pubescent. 



Vae. 3. tortuosa (sp. Wcdl. Oat. 4675) ; stem with long soft fibrous hairs, leaves 

 glabrous or veins only silky. 



20. C. grewiaeflora, DC. Syst. i. 140 ; densely tomentose, leaves 

 simply pinnate, filaments filiform above. Bon Prodr. 191 ; Wall. Cat. 4678 ; 

 H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 10. 



Lower Temperate and Sdbtropioal Himalaya, alt. 3-5000 ft., from Kumaon to 

 Bhotan. 



A large woody climber. Leaflets 3-5, 3^ in., broadly ovate-cordate, more or less 

 serrate, usually deeply 5-lobed. Panicles many-flowered. Sepals IJ in., oblong, 

 densely tomentose outside, pubescent inside. Filaments 1 in., narrow-linear below, 

 covered with soft spreading hairs ; anthers very long, narrow, twisted after flowering. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. LOASiEFOLiA, DC. Syst. i. UO; flowerless, doubtless either O. grewimflora or 

 Wighliana. " ./•«-" 



C. LOAsiFOLiA, Don Frod/r. 191. Probably C. Buchananiana. 

 C.scABiosJBvoiAA DO. Syst. i.l5i. India? Herb. Mus. Paris. 

 C. viLLosA, X>a.^2^.!«. L 154. India? Herb. Mus. Paris. 

 C. coMOSA, .Da &/^«. i. 156. India? Herb. Mus. Paris. (O triloba 1) 

 nation.""'"'"' ' ^^^' ^""^ "•'' ■^'"**-'' ^^^ ' too imperfect for determi- 



2. NARAVEXiIA, DC. 



Climbing shrubs. Flowers in axUlary 1-flowered peduncles Leaves 

 3-foliolate, terminal leaflet generaUy transformed into a tendnU. S^lt 



