RANUNCULACE^E. c 



Hab. Near Obrajillo (in fruit) and Banos (in flower), Andes of 

 Peru. 



To complete the character of this well-marked species, that of the 

 fruit only was needed, which desideratum is supplied by one of the 

 specimens in this collection. The achenia, like the ovaries, are per- 

 fectly glabrous, narrowly oblong, turgid, distinctly stipitate from the 

 inner angle at the base, therefore gibbous, and tipped with a short, 

 strongly revolute or hooked style; they form a globular head, the recep- 

 tacle of which is villous. The leaves of our flowering specimen, more- 

 over, are thin and membranaceous, and so they are in one of the speci- 

 mens from Matthews, in the herbarium of Sir fm. Hooker; while in 

 others, as in Dombey's plant, they are more or less coriaceous. The 

 flower also varies in size. 



3. EANUNCULUS, Linn. 



* Peruvianas et Chilenses. 



1. Eanunculus prjsmorsus, H. B. K 



R. prsemorsus, H. B. K. in DC. Syst. 1, p. 292, & Nov. Gen. & Spec. 5, p. 47; Benth. 

 PI. Hartw., p. 158. 



Hab. Banos, Andes of Peru. 



Both Cruckshanks and Matthews have gathered the same species in 

 the Peruvian Andes (about Pasco, &c), and some specimens show the 

 prsemose rhizoma. 



2. Banunculus Bonplandianus, K B. K. I. c. 



Var. foliis etiam pagina superior e pubescenti-pilosis ; caidibus decumben- 

 tibus vel declinatis. 



Hab. Banos, Andes of Peru. 



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