Y j iSNALS OF SOXAL BOTAHIO GARDES, CAtCUITA.
w h o r i o f leaves. 4- 5 , membrane.,, orate or ellipKcal, with b r a n cUn g nerves in-
I r ed . i t b a r a t h e r L a d base, obtuse, 6 - 1 0 m-n. long, H as broad g l . W «
6,000' -, Mishmi. Flowers i n June.
Plate 108^. f.en ; 4, pistil ; 6, stigmatitt surface. l.aowering pUnt; 2, sepal; 5
Anemone Grljithii. H. and Th.
AîîEiioNË FALCONEKI, T.
. . d colored W n , but wWd. n. o .tanbge J 1... dl.tiB.tlj d.vd.p. d in
„ „ l o o k e d . ho , » » , not beo»
Pl a t e lOBB. Ánem
. T. Thorn.. 6, flowering plant. 7. sepal; 8. . ta.en. 9. pHil of
Anemone oetusiloba, ïi—Don.
t s: . b o , o , „ . . . P—-A. A. „ ¡ « . . i « , A. .» i o'l.™. J .„ d A.
L l m . , kW". »-yl»' f rt'„do.oY oí A. toward, ti.
A rnpestris of WnlHcb; Eiirtber by the frequently .vmce J ^^ this species from ]Cviiiiaoii
f o n u a t L of au »»beUat. » « o r . »™. ; by th, „. tñ u . doubtful
„ d Nipal beiug very deddedly o„mpre»ed, » « J* ^^ „i.mlv do .ot b.loug;
whether they .bould not be referred to J . U- 1- ^ • ¡
: " e n . l l y by th. ovari« of ' Z
, h . , e .f th, aat-o.rp.lled N.pal variety »'.-l' ^ dMribution, ot 00««, «,«»1,
and ap p « " . V . I S L , Fr»r.h,t, olo.,ly .lH,d to tb,
L r , for nothing, for not only ..th, / huî T i i. till mor, r.marlaUe. there rie-ou-r;.- f ~
• Englcr'a Botanisobe Jairb
DESCEIPIIONS OP NEW EAEE INDIAN PLANTS.
section of Awmone and the spocios belonging to the old genus Pulsatilla to justify DeCanJoIle's
group-name of PuhaiiUoidca, contrary to Janezewaki's dictum: "II est difficile de compendre pourquoi
De Candollo a donné ce nom à ime sectioa embrassaut deus plantes africaines què ne présentent
aucune offinité QTec nos Pulsatilles." The hairs on the ovarles, when present, are mostly rigid,
as they aie in the specios which go to form the section Pukatiltoidce ; but in a variety of
what I call subspecies opalifolium from Kumaon the hairs are rather soft, whilst in undoubted
forms of A. oUusiloba irom Kansu the ovaries are in some plants densely hairy, ia others perfectly
glabrous without the plants differing from each other in any other dutail. This abolishes, moreover,
one of the distinguishiug characters of the A. riipestris of the Plora of British India. Aa regards
the latter it has to be mentioned that the carpels of the foi'm referred to are usually more or less
beset with stiff hairs, quite according to the manner of certain forms of A. obtusUuba from Chamba
and Nepal. "We have, therefore, to consider the value of the leaves in furnishing diagnostic characters
to serve in the discrimination oE the forms allied to A. oltmiloba. "We begin with A. irullifdia
H. f. et T. There is now in the Calcutta Herbarium a large collection of epeciraens belonging to
this form, gathered in Sikkim, Chiimbi, and Setchwan, They all agree with each other as regards
habit, structure of flower, indumentum, and the colour of the sepals ; the leaves of most of them are
like those shown in (A) of plate 106 ; the extreme forms {figi. 13 and 19) are placed side by sido, but
they are connected by forms with leaves like those represented in figures 14—18. The leaf shown in
fig. 13 does not differ in form so very much from leaves of A. ohtusiloba of the shape shown in fig.
4. Franchet endeavours to resuscitate Eoyle's A. discolor. He says in his Plantoe JDelavayanac : "Je
crois qu'il faut conserver le nom d' A. áücolor, Eoyle, à une plante très-voisine de 1' A. oltu-vloba,
mais qui s'en distingue facilement par la foi-me nettement pentagonola, îk l'angles assez aigus, de ses
feuilles. L' A. disouhr est aussi moins velu," The transition as to form of leaves between tliose
plants which, according to Franchet, would severally constitute the two species A. ohluêifola., Don
and A. discolor, Hoyle, is sufficiently illustrated by figures 1—6 of plate 106 to definitely dispose of
A. discolor as a species or even variety. There are a number of aberrant forms which, to a certain
extent, may be distinguished from the typical A. oUusiloba by the leaves being more or leas distinctly
ovate in outline, not pentagonal nor semicircular or eubreniform ; they gradually shade into the tj'pe •
but forms like that depicted in (B) of plate 106 look very distinct. I unite them into a subspecies
which I call A. omlifoVa. Although differing in tbeir outline, such deeply divided leaves as those
of some forms of A. ovaïifoîia appear to render the reduction of the A. riipesiria of the Flo7-a of
Brit. Ind. imperative; nor does A. imbricata, Maxim., lie outside the group of forms which have
diverged from the typical A. obtusiloba. The A. rupcdris of the Calcutta Herbarium—there is an
original "Wallichian type-sheet here—is different from the A. rupesirk distributed under this name from
Kew, and evidently the one described as auoh in the Flora of Brit. Ind. Wallich. as has 1
pretty frequently with him, appears to have distributed quite different species under the f
As, however, the form desciibed by Hooker and Thomson in the Fhra of Brit. Ind. has to 1
reduced to A. oblusiloba, I have changed its name into A. sa-Mcola, leaving the name A lupcslris to
the species to which '' doubtlessly , ^ . "Wallieh originally meant to give . it.. The _.
following is i
fioation of the
forms which we thus ste ourselves cnnstrained to include L tsiluba:—
s I. TmjLLiFOLU, S. f . et T.; mostly villous ; scapM erect or more frsqaently a
or prostrate, 6—20 cm. long; leaves subsessHe or shortly or rather long-petioled (petiole some ti^eT a,
long as the blade), obovoid-subspatulate, mora rarely rhomboid or suborbicular in outline, sometimes
oblong-linear, cuneate or rarely obtuse or even cordate at the base, coarsely crenate-seirite, more or
less distinctly 3—lobed; sepals elHptio, golden yellow, usually 2 to 3 times as long as the head of
stamens J carpels densely hii'sute.
Var. a. LiNEAKts; leaves oblong linear or oblanoeolate, entire or scarcely sefrate at the apex
Tachienlu region {Pratt n. 493/).
Var. /3. BP4TUI.ATA; leaves obovate-subspatiilate or rhombic, entire or very shortly trilobed
cuneate at tbe base, coarsely crenate-scrrate. Sikltim (¿T. f . and others!), near