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444 “T+ TSC%) ISB panuncuLacwae. | Ranunculus. 
75 3 iS%. 
3-partite; lobes rounded, irregularly crenate or crenate-lobed. Scapes 
1 or 2, 1-flowered, naked, 1-3in. long. Flowers }-?in. diam. Sepals 5, 
ovate, margins scarious. Petals 5, cbovate, rounded at the tip, with a 
single conspicuous gland at the base. Styles rather long, recurved. Ripe 
achenes not seen.—Z'. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 12; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fi, (1906) 16. 
Soutn Istanp: Otago—Carrick Range, alt. 4000 ft., Petrie / November- 
December. 
A pretty and distinct little species, the exact relationship of which cannot be 
determined until ripe achenes are obtained. 
19. R. novae-zealandiae Petrie on Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi (1894) 266.— 
Small, stout, somewhat fleshy and glaucous, perfectly glabrous. Reoot- 
stock short, stout, clothed with the remains of the old petioles ; root-fibres 
long and thick. Leaves all radical, coriaceous, on short flattened petioles 
4-lin. long; blade $-14in. long, trifoliolate; lateral leaflets sessile, ter- 
minal long-stalked, all more or less deeply 3-lobed or -partite, sometimes 
to the base, segments crenate. .Scapes 1-3, short, stout, naked, 1-flowered, 
i-3in. long. Flowers $-3in. diam. Sepals 5, oblong, much shorter 
than the petals. Petals 5, obovate-cuneate, rounded at the tip, with a 
single broad gland near the base. Ripe achenes not seen.—T’. Kirk Students’ 
Fl, (1899) 13; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 16. : - 
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South Istand: Otago—Rock and Pillar Range, opposite Middlemarch; Old 
Man Range, alt. 4000 ft., Petrie / November—December. 
This looks like R. Berggreni with trifoliolate leaves; in fact, the terminal leaflet 
often exactly matches a small-sized leaf of that species. But it is premature to 
speculate as to its affinities until the ripe achenes are known. 
20. R. sericophyllus Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 6.—A handsome 
short stout pale-green plant 2-8in. high, usually densely covered with 
long silky hairs, but sometimes nearly glabrous. Rootstock short, stout. 
Leaves numerous, somewhat membranous, all radical ; petioles short or long, 
1-5 in., with very broad membranous sheathing bases; blade 4-14 in. 
long, broadly ovate in outline, tripinnatisect, ultimate divisions small, 
linear or linear-oblong, acute or nearly so, generally tipped with a pencil 
of silky hairs. Scape usually longer than the leaves, stout, erect, 1-flowered 
or rarely 2-flowered, naked or with an entire or laciniate bract. Flowers 
large, golden-yellow, 1-14 in. diam, or even more. Sepals oblong, mem- 
branous, almost equalling the petals. Petals 5-8, usually broad, obovate- 
cuneate, rounded at the tip; glands generally 3, near the base. Achenes 
forming a rounded head 14 in. diam., glabrous, turgid, keeled at the back ; 
style stout, subulate—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 12; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 17; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 6. -T- 4q Cy: ar, 
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SouTH [snanp: Canterbury—Poulter River, Cockayne / Broening’? Bess, Mount 
Brewster, Hopkin’s River, Haast! Mount Cook district, Dixon, T’. F. C.; Copeland 
Pass, Cockayne ; Haast Pass and Makaroro, Poppelwell ; Kinloch, Wakatipu, B. C. 
Aston ; Matukituki Valley, near Mount Aspiring, mountains near Lake Hawea, Petrie / 
Mackinnon’s Pass, F. G. Gibbs and H. J. Matthews ! Humboldt Mountains, Cockayne ! 
Altitudinal range 3500—7000 ft. December—January. 
An exceedingly beautiful little plant, very abundant in the Mount Cook district, 
where it ascends to quite 7000 ft. Mr. Petrie’s specimens from near Mount Aspiring 
are more slender and almost glabrous, and the petals are more numerous and narrower. 
Dr. Cockayne’s, from the Humbold¢ Mountains, have the leaves much less divided, 
with broader segments, but the petals have the 3 large glands of the type. 
