2 I. BANUKCULACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 



Flowers regular solitary or panicled. 



Petals 0, leaves undivided 9- Caltha. 



Petals 0, leaves palmately divided 10- CalathodeS. 



Petals small, carpels long-stalked 12. Coptis. 



Petals small, carpels sessile, flowers yellow 11- Tkolijus. 



Petals small, carpels sessile, flowers white 13. Isopvrom. 



Petals as large as the sepals, all spurred 14. Aqdilegia. 



Flowers regular racemed. 



Carpels solitary, berried when ripe 17. AcT.ffiA. 



Carpels 4-8, follicular when ripe 18. Cimicifuga. 



Flowers irregular. 



Posterior sepal spurred 15- Delphinium. 



Posterior sepal vaulted 16. Aconitdm. 



Tribe V. Faeonleee. Herbs or undershrubs. S^als herbaceous im- 

 bricate. Carpels several, several-ovuled, girt by a fleshy disk. Fruit of 

 coriaceous few-seeded follicles. 



19. PiEONIA. 



1. CX.EMATIS, Linn. 



Woody, usually climbing undershrubs. Leaves opposite, usually com- 

 pound, exstipulate, petioles often tvf ining. Inflorescence axillary or terminal. 

 Sepals usually 4, (to 8) petaloid, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens many. 

 Garpds many, each with 1 pendulous ovule. Fruit a head of sessile or 

 stalked achenes, with long feathery styles, except in Sect. Viticella.— 

 DisTBiB. AU temperate climates, rarer in the tropics ; species about 100. 



Sect. I. Viticella, DC. Achenes beaked, without feathery styles. 



1. C. Cadmia, Ham. ex Wall. Cai. 4669 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 5 ; C. 

 sulcata. Wall. Gat. 4667. Thalictrum bracteatum, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 671. 



E. Bengal in tropical jungles, and along the base of the Himalaya, from the Kosi 

 to Assam. Birua, Griffith. 



A slender subherbaceous climber. Leaves 3-nately decompound ; leaflets 1-2 in. 

 ovate-oblong, glabrous, base oblique or cordate. Flowers axillary, solitary ; peduncle 

 long, with two leafy bracts about the middle. /Sepals 5 to 6; f^ to 1 in. spreading, 

 linear-oblong, blue. Achenes many, large, broadly ovate, beak long straight, young 

 silky. 



Sect. n. Cheiropsls, 7)C. ^cAewes with long feathery styles. Flowers 

 in axillary fascicles j pedicels 1-fld. 



2. C. Napaulensls, BG. Syst. i. 164; leaves ternately divided, pedicels 

 with 2 connate bracts at or near the middle. H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 6 : 

 Wall. Gat. 4680. C. montana, Don Prodr. 192 {not of others). 



Temperate Himalaya from Garwhal to Bhotan. 



A slender nearly glabrous climber. Leaflets 1-2 in., elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes 

 very narrow, entire toothed or 3-lobed, 3-uerved, lateral oblique. Flowers many, 

 pedicels shorter than the leaves ; bracts forming a 2-lipped cup, in which the bud is 

 sessile. Sepals 4, oblong, silky outside. Filaments glabrous, tapering from a broad 

 flat base ; sinthers short. Achenes flat, margined, hairy. 



3. C. montana, Ham ex DC. Svst. i. 164; leaves ternately divided, 

 pedicels naked, stamens glabrous. Wall. Fl. As. liar iii t 217 ■ H f. & 



« f^- .{n"^- f- ^- P™1"*°?S. {T"!'- G<^t- 4862. C.' anemoniflora,' Dm 

 Prodr. 192 ; Anemone curta, Wall. Gat. 4690. 



