7 Ö AN N A L S OP ROYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCÜIIA.
Thaling, TswmtoBg (King's oolleotorsl) ; Chumbi; on Pit-zc-lä, P(in-ka-lä, Oey-güng-ls ;
Phtifi {King's colhctors !) ; Bhutaa ; N. "W. Eimalsya ?
Far. y. ROTUSDIFOLIA ; leaves suborbicolor, ruivuifeátly petioled, very broadly cuneate, rounded,
or Bliallo-w-copdate at the base, trilobed to è to i. Sikkim : near Tlialing 13,000',
and in other localities {Ounningham, G. Gammic, King's colleelon!).
Subspecies IL cosLBsriXA, Franchct scapes ereefc or ascendent; leaves more or less long-petioled,
long-cuneate, suÌDtrilobed, lohes otituse, middle one ineised-orooate, lateral ones entire or scarcely crenate,
upper surface somewhat hairy, lower surface silky-villose ; sepals 5, 6—S mm. long, ovate, obtuse, blue,
sometimes -white inside, silky outside ; cai-pels hirsute,—Yunnan.
Subspecies III. OVALIFOLIA P. Brii/ii; more or less villous; scapes sometimes elongate and upright,
\isually short, ascending or more frequently prostrate or procumbent ; leaves long-petioled, ovate in
outline, more or less coi-dats, trisect or trifolialate, 12—25 mm. long; middle segment cuaeate-obovate,
3.1obed or ^-partite; lateral ones usually i—J the length of the middle one, broadly obovate or
suh orbicular, tiilohulate ; petiole usually 2 to 3 times tlio length of the hlade ; sepals 5, sub orbicular
or broad-ellixrtic, 8 mm, long, usually little longer than the androgyne ecium ; ovarios hirsute, hairs
rigid or rather soft, sometimes quite glabrous ; acheaes sometimes much compressed.
far. a. GEOCHAEES; scapes usually prostrate or proeurahent, more rarely ascending, 4—10 cm.
long ; sepals greenish-yellow (or quite yellow ?), more commonly dark-red or reddishhrov.
Ti outside, white inside; ovaries hirsute or glabrous. North Tibet (Frsiwahlii!)-,
Kansu {Potanin) ; Tachienlu region {Pratt 17(j) ; Phari {King's collector).
Var. ß. oRTHOCACLA ; scapes erect or ascending, 15—20 em. long ; sepals yellow, bluish near
base ; achenes much compressed, heset with softish hairs. Kumaon, near the Lebung
pass, 14—15,000' [Duthie).
Subspecies IV. SAXÍCOLA, P. Brühl (= A. rupatria of the Flora of BntUh India) ; scapes erect,
slender, somewhat hairy ; leaves glabrous or somewhat viUose, very long-petioled ; hlade suhorhieular or
reniform in outline, coi-dfite, trisect; segments suhsessile or petiolulate; lataral segments little shorter than
the middle one, 2—3 lobed; middle segment more petiolulate, subreniform, tripartite, divisions 3- (or 2-)
lohed; segments and lobes overlapping, the latter entire lobulato or paucierenate ; petiole slender, 2—6
times the length of the blade; sep.ils elliptic or broad-ohovate, 2—3 times as long as the androgynoeolum ;
carpels glabrous or more frequently with sparse rigid hairs.—Kashmir {Falc. No. 28 .'), Pir Panjül ;
Nipal, in Gossaiu Than; Sikkim, 15,000' {according io FL of Br. Inri.).
Subspecics V. OMALOCABPELLA, P. B.\ viUose; scapes ascending; leaves trisect, segments obovate,,
narrow-cuneate, the middle one longer and broader, deeply trilohed, lateral ones incised-lobate, lobules
sparsely serrate-crenate ; sepals 6—9, 9—17 mm. long, 2—3 times the length of the androgynoecium,
oblong, white with a lead-coloured spot ; eoxpels nearly flat, margined, quite glabrous or with a few
rigid hairs ; style short, hooked.—Nipol {Scully!).
Subspecies VI. OBTU8II,OB\ (TYPICA) ; usually very villose ; scapes oreet, ascending, or prostrate,
7—50 cm. .long; leaves long-petio^ed ; blade renifoi-m, suborbieular, pentagonal, or broad-ovate in outline
[when broadly ovate, 4—6 om. long), mc>re or less cordate, sometimes trilobed to.the middle, usually
tripartite or trisect; lateral segments (?•—) 3—f- the length of the middle one; segments cleft or lobed;
sepals elliptic, obovate-oblong, or broadly obovate, 2-5 to 4 times tho length of the androgynoecium ;
ciarpels sub compressed, hirsute with rigid hairs, rarely sparsely hairy.—Gilgit ; temperate and Alpine
Himalaya ; Yunnan.
However greatly the various forms of this subspecies diSer from each other in tho indumentum—
densely viUose to nearly glabrous,—the length oí the scape, the form and deptli of division of basal
leaves, the siae, form, and division of the involucral leaves, the colour of the sepals-yellow, j-ellow or
wliite inside and blue or bluish outside, with or without a lead-coloured spot—hairiness of carpels : tho
variability is so great and the transitions so gradual that it appears to bo a thankless task to split up
DESCEIPTIONS OP NEW AiM) E ARE INDUN PLANTS,
info varieties, if the definition of such varieties is to bo more than i descriptio
PTITB J05C. Anemone obtmi/oha, DON. SNBBPECICA saiicola ; 11, BOPAL ; 12, SFAMENS ; 13, PISTILS,
PIAT» 100.4. Anemone cUunloba, SUB-SPEC. irHUifolia ; (B) Anemona ovalifcUa, RAR, goocharc^. 1-23 LENVOS • 1 - 6
«F SUHSP. tupka-.lfrom Ling-U, X.-3!^..% Dalhovsk. 4. N.-W. Sim.. 6 Sandakphu ; 7, OF STIBSP. cmalccarpeUa.
ovilifoUa TAR. JECC/.O« FROM Kama. 10 riDd 11, TLIE tome FROM Phari-, 12, OF ovalifolia
13—18, OF »UBSP. IrMi/olia, Sil-iim, Chumbi, Phari-, 10, OF SUBAPLUBSP.
eaxicola. N.-W. Eim. ; 21-22 OF SUBSP. imlricata-, 23
2 y.-W. Sim
yipal ; 8 AND 9, OF SOBSP. o
Tar. ortAaeaula, Zebung Pass, £ut.
truUi/oUa, RAR. linearis, Tachie,du reffio^ ;
SM.
SUBSP. ovalifoHa. 24-31, 33 PI-^TILS : 24-25 SNBSP. cbt^siluba YERA, Chcab valley-, 28 E.IBSP iruUi/oUo
o^aJcUa, PJ.ori; 28. 29 SOBSP. ovali/oHn, Kans. ; SO THO SAME, ; 31 .UB.P!
,alora,pella, Nipal; 83 SUBSP, .«IR.WÍA ; Si, ADVANCED CARPEL OF SUBSP. ov,oloc:arpeUa, JUpal.
NOTB.-(IE PULO 106C- IHE NAME A rupesiris, WALL, SHOULD BE OLIANGOD TO A. obKisiloba LUBSP. IV.)
ANEMONE RUPESTRIS, Wall. Cat. 4G96 in Jlerh. Culc.
Piimarj- root soon disappearing. Rhizome short, tuberifonn, sometimes forked ovoid
or elhp»oid or, when older, short cy]indric, 7—18 mm. long, 3 - 8 mm. thick, emittmgliliform
root-fibres, covered upwards with the remains of the sheaths of fallen leaves
the apical growling point surrounded by the rudiments of leaves consisting of a threenerved
subevoluto sl.eatli and a crenulate or obscurely 5-fid lamina, and often bearing in
their axOs the rudimentary bud of the flowering stem of the following year Ba<=al leaves
4 - 8 , crowded, very long-petioled; petioles dilated at their base into a membranous dab
rous or subvillous, very shoit ( 2 - 3 mm.) sheath, slender ( I - ) 2 - 8 cm. lon^ U-7-1 mm
broad,_ subglabroas or subviUose; blade membranous, ovate or ovate-oblong in outline"
tripartite, trisect, trifoHolate or subpinnate, at the base subcordate or subtruncate
mm. long subisodiametric, subglabrous or somewhat hairy, sometimes silky; terminal
«ogmont often pet.duled, semicircular or rhombic in outline, o - H mm. diameter
lo ed or oftener tnpartxte or trisect, with the lateral divisions sometimes subc Lt and
t C i b d I m -b r e n i f o rm, rarely subentire t u a l '
th ee-lobed 4--10 mm. long, ultimate lobes quite entire or serrate-crenato, c^eraW
b usely ap^culate. Flower-bearing branches scapiform, solitary or 2 ^ 6 from the ax s "
alien leaves, erect or ascending, slender, 3 - 1 8 cm. long, O-8-l-o mm t ialT« M 1
the length of the basal leaves, subvillous, towards the W usually^ ss
subglabrous. Floral leaves 3, whorled, inserted at the middle oVabov ^ e midT
rarely close to the ilower, sessile, free or scarcely connate at the ba' r slerv d
nerves being fine, simple or branched, ovate, oblong, or obovate wed^e I n . T ' ^
s t , , „ i „ „ d « „„no. Stamens 6 -18, about half as long a " L f
the apex mom a, les. thickeood, tho ontoi onos broadly U„ear or Z 1 f '
or all of thorn broad-ovate or elliptic, 2 - 3 „m. long L Wdt h If f
-no. f - i their o . n ,e„,th; anther« brord-ekptie, blunt, O - C m ; ! luWatrX'
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