26 PLOEA INDICA. [Ranunculaceee. 



Hab. Inter segetes in montibus IndisB bor. : Belucbistan, Stocks! 

 MghAmstsxi, Qriffitk! }Lashmir, Win.ter5oUom/ Kanawer, So^le / etc. 

 Sirmur ad Kotgarh, Str. et Wint. ! ; et in montibus Nilghiri, Wight, 

 sed iide cl. Munro in hortis tantura. — (Fl. Mai.-Jul.) (p. v.) 



Herba erecta, l-2-pedali9, simplex vel superne ramosa, glabra vel tenuiter pn- 

 bescens. Folia 1-3-imcialia, pinnatim decomposita, segmentis angnste linearibus. 

 Mores ad ramorum apices solitarii, diametro -J-li-uuciales, coccinei, petalis basi 

 atropurpureis. Sepala petalis -J breviora. Achenia late ovalia, angularia, superne 

 prope apicem tuberculata, et basi dente acuto quasi calcarata. 



The Indian plant agrees perfectly witb European and Siberian specimens. The 

 achenia vary a good deal in shape, and do not, we fear, afford good characters, though 

 many of the species described by European botanists seem to have no other distin- 

 guishing marks. The broad petals and globose flowers of A. autumnalis serve to 

 distinguish the typical form of that species from the ordinary state of A. aestivalis, 

 but intermediate forms are common. Dr. Koyle's description seems partly taken 

 from A. autumnalis, of which we have seen no Indian specimens, those in Herb. 

 Koyle being A, astivalis. 



2. A. Pyrenaica (DC. Prod. i. 25) ; radice perenni, foliis radi- 

 calibus longe petiolatis multifidis caulinis subsessilibus, ramis iinifloris, 

 aoheniis stylo uncinatim recurve apiculatis in capitulo ovali vel sub- 

 globoso dispositis. — Deless. Ic. sel. i. t. 31. 



Hab. In montibus Kashmir, Jacquemont! Winterbottom! et in Tibet 

 occid. prov. Guge, Str. et Wint.! {Trollius, No. 3.) — (Fl. Jun. Jul.) 

 (v. s.) 



DiSTEiB. In mont. PyrenEeis ! necnon in Apenninis et Hungaria, 

 DC. 



Radix valida, fasiformis, subhorizontalis, colic squamis magnis membranaceis 

 vaginantibus involuta. Caules e coUo plures vel solitarii, J-li-pedalis, basi plerumque 

 nudi, superne foliosi. Folia radiealia longe pctiolata, caulem floriferum ssepe fere 

 sequantia, cito marcescentia, decomposite pinnatisecta, segmentis ultimis anguste 

 linearibus. Flares majusculi, aurei. Sepala 7-8, obovata, pallida. Petala 13-15, 

 obovato-cuneata, obtusa, l-l-J-poUicaria, sepalis subduplo longiora. Achenia magna, 

 angulata, glabra, in capitulum densum aggregata. 



Our Indian specimens are in flower only, and we had considered them at one time 

 a distinct species. A more careful examination, however, has shown us that the 

 characters ou which we relied are of no value, and that our plant is in no way dis- 

 tinguishable from that of "Western Era'ope. A. vernalis, L., chiefly ditFers in the 

 absence of radical leaves, for the floral characters are by no means constant. It is 

 very remarkable that the Himalayan plant should be the same as that of Western 

 Europe, and different from that of the Caucasus and Siberia. 



6. CALLIANTHEMUM, C. A. Meyer. 



Sepala B, decidua. Petala 5-15, ungue fovea nectarifera impressa. 

 Achenia subglobosa, stylo brevi apiculata. Semea pendulum. — Herbse 

 alpestres, caulescentes vel acaules, radice perennante, foliis decompositis, 

 floribus """'" 



The only other known species of this genus, C. rutafolium, C. A. Meyer, is a 

 native of the alps of Europe and Siberia. 



1. C. pimpinelloides (Eoyle ! 111. 45) ; acaulis, foliis bipinnati- 



