Anemone.] flora indica. 23 



sented a series of gradations connecting it with the ordinary form of the species. 

 The fruit is quite the same in all the varieties, the heak being hooked while young, 

 but straight and rigid in the ripe achenium. J. mollis, Wall. Cat., is said to be 

 from Khasia ; but as the species is rather an alpine one in the Himalaya, and has not 

 been found in that district by other collectors, it is probable that the specimens, 

 which are mere fragments, have been accidentally wrongly ticketed. 



10. A. rivularis (Ham. in DC. Syst. i. 211, Prod. i. 21, non 

 Wall. Cat.) ; foliis trisectis, segmentis tripartitis vel profunde tvilobis, 

 lobis iterum trilobis irregulariter inoiso-serratis, involucri 2-3-pliylli 

 foliis tripartitis, segmentis trilobis vel indivisis oblongis acuminatis 

 argute inoiso-serratis, cyma decomposita, acheniis oblongis in rostrum 

 recurvum acuminatis. — Doti, Prod. 193. A. Mspida, fFalL Ca<. 4694! 

 A. Wightiana, JFall. Cat. 4697 ! JF. et A. Prod. 8 ; Wight, 7c. <. 936 ! 

 Nilg. PL p. 2. <. 4 ! Hook. Ic. Plant, i!. 176 ! Lindl. Bot. Peg. 1842, 

 !!. 8 ! A. dubia, Wall. Cat. 4698 (Jde W. et A.) ; W. et A. Prod. 3. 

 A. geraniifolia, Wall. Cat. 4693 ! 



Hab. Ladak : in aquosis infra 10,000 rara!; ubique in Himalaya 

 temperata, alt. 5-10,000 ped., in graminosis humidis et secus vias : 

 in Sikkim ubi ad alt. 13,000 ped. ascendit in jugis interioribus tantum ; 

 in montibus Khasia ! ; in peninsulas australis et Zeylanise montibus 

 teraperatis ! — (Fl. per totam sestatem.) (». «.) 



Sericeo-pilosa, 1-3-pedalis. Hadix crassa, lignosa. tolia 2-6-uncialia, majora 

 longissime petiolata, circumscriptione rotundata vel reniformia, profunde cordata. 

 Ivcolucri folia saepe 3-5-uucialia, subsessilia vel alato-petiolata, segmentis ultimis 

 oblongis vel lanceolatis. Inflorescentia decomposite cymosa. Involucelli folia ssepins 

 bina, bipartita, segmentis lanceolatis vel liuearibus parallele nervosis, inciso-serratis. 

 Sepala 5-8, ovalia, obtusa, extus sericea, ^— |-uncialia, intus alba, extus cserulescentia. 

 Achenia ^-uncialia. 



This species, which grows at a lower elevation than any other, is the only one 

 which extends within the tropics, and, indeed, except A. elongata, Don, which is 

 found in Khasia, the only species yet known in India out of the Himalaya. Not- 

 withstanding the formidable array of synonyms which we have brought together, 

 it is by no means a vaiiahle plant, except in size. A monstrous state, in which the 

 flower is converted into a leafy umbel, sometimes six inches in diameter, is common 

 in northern India. The original specimen of A. dubia, in the Linnsean Society's 

 herbarium, belongs by some accident to A. nemorosa, or some closely allied plant. 

 '1 here can, however, be no doubt that that synonym is correctly referred here, as we 

 have the authority of Wight (NUg. Plant, p. 2) for uniting it to A. Wightiana. 



Sect. 5. Omalocaepus, DC. — AcJtenia ovalia, valde compressa. 



11. A. demissa (H.f. et T.) ; foliis trisectis, segmentis petiolatis 

 late cuneato-obovatis varie incisis, scapis prostratis, involucri foliis 3 

 sessilibus trilobis, floribus 1-6 exinvolucellatis, acheniis glabris stylo 

 deflexo apiculatis. 



Hab. In Himalayee orientalis provincia Sikkim, alt. 13-16,000 ped. ! 



—(PI. Jul.) {v. V.) 



Villosa vel rarius glahrata. Radix crassa, sublignosa, collo incrassato polypLyllo. 

 Folia uncialia, petiole longitudine vario. Scapi 3-12-unciales. Pedicelli lloriferi 

 hreviuscnli, fructiferi SEepe elongati. Sej>ala ovalia, i-A-uncialia, cserulescentia. 

 Ovaria glabra. Achenia late ovsdia, ^ unciam longa. 



