THE 



TREES, SHRUBS AND WOODY CLIMBERS 



OF THE 



BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



Order 1. RANUNCULACE^. 



HERTis or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite. Flowers 

 regular, bisexual. Sepals 4 or more, deciduous, often petaloid. 

 Petals many or 0. Stamens many. Carpels free ; stigma simple ; 

 ovules anatrope, pendulous with, a dorsal raphe {Clematidece). Fruit 

 a head of many l-seeded achenes. Seeds albuminous ; embryo 

 minute. 



Petals ... ... ... ... 1. Clematis. 



Petals man^, linear ... ... ... 2. Naravblia, 



1. CLEMATIS, L. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, usually compound. Inflores- 

 cence, axillary or terminal. Sepals 4 — 8, petaloid, valvate. Petals 0. 

 Stamens many. Carpels each with 1 ovule. Fruit a head of achenes 

 usually with long feathery styles. 



Filaments glabrous. 



Connective of anthers not produced. 

 Leaves simple or trifoliate. 



Leaves large, entire or remotely 

 serrate ... ... ... 1. C smilacifolia. 



Leaves small, ternate, entire or 



1 — 3-toothed or lobed ... 2, (7. triloba* 



Leaves pinnate, bipinnate or 2-ternate. 3. C. Qouriana. 

 Connective of anthers produced more or less. 



Leaves simply pinnate, leaflets glabrous ... 4. C. Tiedysarifolia. 

 Filaments hairy. 



Leaves pinnate, leaflets densely villous ... 5. C. Wightiana^ 



L C. smilaeifolia, Wall, in Asiat. Researches, XIIL 414 ; EL Br. T. 

 1. 3 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1. 



Stems glabrous, sulcate. Leaves large, purple beneath and with 3 — 6 

 gtrong basal-nerves. Flowers large, 1*5 in. across, in elongated panicles 

 6 — 12 in. long. Sepals brown, tomentose outside, purple within. Achenes 

 pubescent with broad margins. This woody climber is found in the 

 Himalaya from Sikkim eastwards, also in the Malay Archipelao:o, Java, 

 Borneo and the Philippines, and from the Konkan to Travancore. It is 

 B 987—1 



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