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* EPIMEDIUM macránthum. 
Large-flowered Epimedium. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BERBERACE £. 
EPIMEDIUM, L.—Sepala 4, discolora, petalis opposita. Petala 8, 
colorata; exteriora simplicia ; interiora calcarata. Stamina 4, petalis interioribus 
opposita. Capsula siliculeeformis, polysperma. Herbe perennes, folüs 
radicalibus compositis, foliolis serrato-aristatis. 
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.. E. macranthum ; foliis triternatis, foliolis cordatis ovatis, petiolis pilosis, racemis 
multifloris, sepalis linearibus obtusis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis exterioribus 
quam interiorum calcaria duplò brevioribus. si ; 
E. macranthum. Morren $ Decaisne Ann. des Sc. ser. II. 2.352. t. 13. 
A very pretty sweet-scented species, remarkable for the 
large size of its pale violet flowers. It has been amply de- 
scribed by Messrs. Morren and Decaisne, from plants that 
flowered in the garden of the University of Ghent; where it 
forms one out of one hundred and sixty species of Japanese 
plants brought to Europe alive by Dr. von Siebold. This is 
by far the most considerable importation from Japan that 
has yet been made, and its results have been so satisfactory 
as to lead us to hope that the Dutch may be the means of 
bringing us acquainted with a larger portion of the beautiful 
plants of that most singular country. 
The drawing of this species was made in April last, from 
a plant in the possession of Mr. Osborne/of the Fulham Nur- 
sery. It is no doubt quite hardy, and is well worth the 
. * An old name, supposed to be derived from Média, where the plant to which 
it belonged was reported to grow; that plant does not however appear to have 
had any resemblance to the Epimedium of modern writers. 
