diameter. As a species it is very like the European and 
Siberian A. narcissiflora, which is found in Kashmir, but 
which has more divided leaves with more deeply cut lobes. 
A. polyanthes is a very common Himalayan plant, from 
Kashmir to Sikkim, between the elevations of 10,000 and 
12,000 feet, growing in moist places; it flowered in the 
Royal Gardens in May last. 
Desor. Silkily hairy or villous all over, except the flowers 
and fruit. ootstock as thick as the thumb, short, black, 
clothed at the top with fibres of old petioles and stems. 
Leaves two to four inches in diameter, orbicular, cordate, 
five- to seven-lobed, but rarely below the middle, lobes 
coarsely irregularly crenate; petiole four to ten inches 
long, very stout; cauline leaves sessile, cuneate, lobed, and 
cut, forming an involucre. Flowers one to two inches in 
diameter, white, in simple or compound umbels, often very 
numerous (twenty to thirty); peduncles and pedicels stout. 
Sepals broadly obovate or oblong, obtuse, glabrous or 
slightly hairy at the back. Stamens very numerous, fila- 
ments glabrous; anthers short, yellow brown, all pertfect. 
Carpels ovoid oblong, erect; styles not prolonged or feathery. 
Achenes half an inch long, almost flat, broadly obovate or 
oblong, with a small subulate stigma, margin thickened, 
surface glabrous or with a few glandular hairs.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, head of unripe carpels (of the natural size); 3 and 4, carpels ; 
5, head of ripe carpels; 6 and 7, ripe carpels :—ald but fig. 2 enlarged. 
