Tas. 6840. 
AN EM ONE ponyantues. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. RanuNcULACEZ.—Tribe ANEMONER. 
Genus Anemone, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 4.) 
ANEMONE polyanthes; erecta, robusta, sericeo-tomentosa v. villosa, rhizomate 
brevi robusto, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis cordato-orbiculatis 5-7-lobis, 
lobis late cuneatis grosse crenatis, caulinis sessilibus, floribus in umbellas 
simplices v. compositas dispositis longe pedicellatis albis, sepalis 5-6 obovato- 
rotundatis-oblongisve obtusis glabriusculis, carpellis maturis late oblongis 
obovatisve compressissimis stylo brevi subulato terminatis. 
A. polyanthes, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p.194; Hook. f. et Thoms, Fl, Ind. p. 24; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 9. 
A. longiscapa, Wall. Cat. No. 4691. 
A. scaposa, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. p. 27. 
A. villosa, Royle Ill. Pl. Himal. p. 52. 
A. Govaniana, Royle l.c, p. 45 (not of Wallich and Don); Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
1844, Mise. p. 45. 
A. obtusiloba, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1884, t. 65 (not of Don). 
Of the fifteen described species of Himalayan Anemones, 
the only one that has hitherto been figured in any horticul- 
tural work is the A. vitifolia (Plate 3376), a fact which 
shows how much still remains to be accomplished in the 
way of introducing hardy herbaceous plants from that rich 
region; for many of them are very attractive plants, and 
eminently worthy of a place in the rock garden. A. poly- 
anthes was introduced forty years ago by seeds communi- 
cated to the Horticultural Society by the Honourable East 
India Company. Plants raised and flowered in the Gardens 
of the Society were rightly referred to the A. Govaniana of 
Wallich (a synonym of polyanthes) by Lindley in the 
Miscellanea appended to the Botanical Register of 1844, 
but in the body of that work he named it A. obtusiloba, which 
isa very different though also a Himalayan species. Lindley’s 
figure represents a very poor specimen, for the plant grows 
to a foot and a half in height, with often compound umbels 
of twenty to thirty flowers, which aresometimes two inches in 
oct. Ist, 1885. 
