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1. RANUNCULACE.E. 



[Clematis. 



rare iu N. Kanara. I have found it in the forests on the Nilkund ghat 

 about },C)00 ft. elevation and in one or two other places. Fl. R, S. Fr. 

 Dec. 



2. C. triloba, Heyne in Eoth. Nov. Sp. 251 ; Fl. Br. I. 1.3; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 1. Vern. Morhel or ranjae. 



A silky tomentose shrub. Leaves with long twining petioles. 

 Flowers large, white, 1*C — 2 in. across, in axillary or terminal panicles. 

 Sepals 4 — 6, membranons, silky outside, reticulately veined. Filaments 

 glabrous; anthers with a broad connective. Mdval ; West Konkan. 

 Dalz. Fl, Sept. Introduced and in hedges about Poona. 



3. C. Gouriana, Rosb. Fl. Ind. 2. 670 ; Fl. Br. LI. 4 ; Wight Ic. 

 933; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. L Indian Travellers' Joy. Monel, M. 



Usually glabrous. Leaflets membranous, shining above. Flowers 

 small, 3 — 5 in., white, in dense panicles. Hilly districts from the W. 

 Himalaya to Ceylon, also in Java and the Philippines. Throughout the 

 presidency in dry forests and along rivers and ndlas. Fl. Oct. Fr. Dec. 



4. C. hedysarifolia, DC. Syst, 1.148 ; Fl. Br. I. 1, 4. 



Glabrous, leaflets strongly reticulate, coriaceous. Flowers white, '76 in. 

 in diameter, in leafy bracteate panicles. Anther-cells marginal. Achenes 

 hairy, margins tubercled. _ Easily distinguished from the common 0. 

 Goiiriana, by the larger flowers acd the aristate or pointed anthers, 

 Konkan ; Belgaum ; North Kanara, along banks of nalas and rivers. Fl. 

 Oct.-Nov. Fr. Dec. 



5. C. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4674 ; Fl. Br. 1. 1. 5 ; Wight Ic. t. 935 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1. 



Leaflets densely brown, hairy beneath. Flowers yellowish, large, in 

 decompound panicles. Anthers short. Sepals 4, brown-tomentose. 

 Achenes silky. Hills of the Deccan, Konkan, Mahabaleslivar. Fl. Jan. 

 Fr. H. S. 



NARAVELIA, DC. 



Climbirg shrubs. Peduncles 1 -flowered, axillary. Leaves trifo- 

 liate j terminal leaflet transformed into a tendiiL Sepals 4-5. Petals 

 6 — 12, linear, longer thaa calyx. Achenes with long bearded styles. 



N. zeylaniea, DO. Syst. 1. 167; Fl. Br. I. 1. 7; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl, 1. Atragene zeylanica, Linn. Chcirchari halU, H.; Nahcliikni^ K. 



Leaflets sometimes cordate, entire or coarsely toothed, tomentose 

 beneath and with 3 — 5 strong basal nerves. Sepals 4:-5-ribbed, broad 

 ovate. Petals linear, spathulate, longer than the sepals. Achenes twist- 

 ed, hairy, situated on the small globose, hairy torus. 



Tropical forests of the Himalaya eastwards from Nepal. Eastern and 

 Western Peninsulas and Ceylon. Throughout the Presidency, common in 

 the moist forests of North Kanara, Fl. .Oct. Fr. Nov. -Dec. 



