p. . PY oR YA Chan my CR, SG 385 
: ROA BRA [ohm Ses st 
_ Jpmnres SET IS. 1ST. 
Wie RANUNCULACEAE. 435 
** Vlowers yellow. 
Villous. Leaves coriaceous, rounded-cordate or reniform, crenate- 
lobed = oi 3 im Ay .. 4 R. insignis. 
Almost glabrous. Leaves submembranous, reniform or sub- 
peltate Ar a A Pa a .. OO. R&R, lobulatus. 
Glabrous. Leaves broadly oblong, cremate. Achenes only 
slightly hairy.. é <A “3 .. 6. R, Godleyanus. 
B. Stems erect, without creeping stolons. Achenes glabrous, turgid or angled, not 
compressed nor margined, never muricate or tuberculate. 
* Stems usually stout, 4-16in. high. Leaves broad, reniform to ovate, coarsely 
crenate or dentate or lobed. 
Leaves reniform to ovate. Scapes l-many-flowered. Petals 
twice as long as the sepals .. %. BR, Monror. 
Leaves rounded-reniform, Scape thickened above, seldom more 
than 1-flowered, Petals not much longer than the sepals .. 8. R. pinguis. 
Leaves reniform in outline, 3-lobed to the middle. Scape 3-5 in. 
high, 1-3-flowered. Achene turgid, 2-winged at the base .. 9. R. Graham. 
** Stems tall, slender. Leaves deeply cut and lobed. Petals narrow, 8-15. 
Pilose, stems 1-3 ft., many-flowered. Flowers 1-l}in. diam. .. 10, &. navicola. 
Glabrous or slightly pilose stems 6-10 in., few flowered. Flowers 
3-lin, diam. .. a a .. Il. R. geraniifolius. 
*** Stems short, simple. Leaves usually all radical. Scapes 1-flowered (1-3- 
flowered in R. Haastii, and sometimes 2-flowered in BR. Enysit). 
Glabrous, 6-l5in. high. Leaves 3-5-foliolate. Scapes 1-5. 
Achenes ovoid ; styles short, straight or curved 4, . 12. R. Enysu. 
Pilose or nearly glabrous, 6-15in. high. Leaves 3-5- partite. 
Achenes fusiform, narrowed into a long spirally recurved style 13. R. tenuicaulis. 
Short, stout, glabrous, almost stemless, Leaves all radical, fleshy 
or coriaceous, palmatipartite or 3-foliolate or 3—5-lobed. 
Leaves few, coriaceous, palmatipartite ; segments laciniate. 
Scape |-3-flowered, with crowded laciniate bracts under 
the flowers .. . 14. A. Haastit. 
cays biternately multifid, glaucous and fleshy ; . "segments 
7 in. long. Scape shorter than the leaves Pf . 15. BR. erithmifolius. 
Leaves many, 3-partite, segments lobed. Scapes shorter 
than the leaves .. 16. B. chordorhizos. 
Leaves 3-8, transversely oblong, 3- lobed to the middle. 
7% ST in easement meaner ~ 17. R. naucifolius. 
new species. 
Ranunculus simpsonii, Ckn. & Allan. 
South Is. Bold Peak nr. Lake Wakatipu 
G. Simpson and J.S. Thomson. 
(see T.N.Z.I, vol. 57, p. 58. Ckn. & Allan) 
u, Obes UG ws oupur vys ae Ue wl 
muricate. (Achenes sometimes “obscurely compressed, but always thinner than in 
the previous section. The margins are apparently not thickened in R,. aucklandicus, ) 
Tall, slender, often nearly 3 ft. high. Petioles often more than 
12in. long. Laminae 1-3 in. long, trifoliolate. Style strongly 
curved ne br tae a7 ‘Ta 5 praee R, Urvilleanus. 
Smaller and stouter than above, 5-15in., hirsute. Flowers 
smaller i 4 7 oF ao .. 25. RK. hirtus, 
