10 PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO [Ranuncuhcece. 
longer than the glabrous oppressed calyx; receptacle smooth; carpels ovate or globose-ovate, turgid, smooth, 
terminated conspicuously into an angular generally straight style. 
On grassy places throughout the greater portion of the Australian Alps, at an elevation from 4500 to 
7000 feet; Mount Buller, Mount Wellington, Munyang Mountains, &c. Found also on the highest 
mountains of Van Diemen’s Land as far south as Mount Lapdrouse. 
A beautiful, slightly acrid herb. Fibres of root from one to several inches long. Leaf-stalks 1 to 6 
inches long; leaves 1J inch long; the segments of the latter camulent, shining, seldom longer than half 
an inch, often much shorter. Peduncles rather stout, 1-10 inches long, extending frequently beyond the 
leaves. Sepals oblong, 4-6 lines long, often purplish outside like the corolla. Petals J-l inch long, 
occasionally of twice the length of the calyx. Stamens short. Anthers oblong-oval. Fruit-head nearly 
globose. Carpels and style together about 1J line long; the latter sometimes hooked at the extremity. 
Tribe IV. HELLEBOREiE, Gand. Syst. i. 306. 
Sepals generally petaloicl, imbricate in aestivation. Petals wanting, or 5-10 of 
irregular form, in many instances two-lipped. Carpels generally free, bursting 
longitudinally along tlieir inner side, containing more than one seed. Seeds 
horizontal. 
CALTHA. 
IAnne Gen . 703.—Marsli-Marygold. 
Sepals 4-8, petaloid. Petals none. Stamens 5, several, or numerous. Carpels 3-10, or numerous, 
compressed, free, spreading, one-celled, arranged in a single whorl, few- or many-seeded. Seeds ovate. 
Chalaza fungous.— Hindi. Gen. 4786. 
Smooth perennial plants, growing in swamps or humid localities, chiefly of the colder zones; 
roots fibrous; leaves entire, toothed or rarely lobed ; flowers terminal, yellow or white, rarely dioecious. 
Sect. Psychrophila, Gaud. Syst . i. 307. 
Leaves all radical, with appendages at the base. Peduncles one-flowered, bractless. 
The species of this section are dispersed over the colder parts of South America, the Antarctic 
Islands, and the Alps of New Zealand and Australia. 
Caltha introloba, F. 3L in Transact . Phil . Soc. Viet . i. 98. 
Dwarf; leaves on long petioles, hastate-ovate, with a notch at the apex, perfectly entire, shining, 
enlarged at the base by two long lobes, which are generally nearly oblong-linear, bent upwards, at their 
origin dilated, very rarely wanting; peduncles one-flowered, very short; sepals white , 5-8, deciduous , 
lanceolate-linear , acuminate; carpels free, 5-9, with a long straight at the apex reflexed style, 3-4-seeded, 
On gravelly places in the Australian Alps, irrigated during' the summer by melting snow; at Mount 
Hotham, Mount La Trobe, and the Munyang Mountains. 
A remarkable little plant, with the habit of an Alisma. Root perennial, producing one or several 
stems, descendent, ^-2 inches long, with numerous stoutish fibres. Stems none; but the broad mem¬ 
branous truncate vaginae form, by involving each other, a stem-like cylinder, to the length of from § to 
inches, which gives the appearance as if the leaves arise from it in a whorl. Petioles 1-4 inches 
long, comparatively thick; their sheath reaching nearly to the middle. Leaves more or less turning black in 
drying, vividly green when fresh, §-l| inch long exclusive of the appendages, nearly coriaceous, beautifully 
shining, finely veined, hastate-ovate or occasionally somewhat more oblong or cordate; their two basal 
