Tas. 6871. 
EOMECON CHIONANTHA, 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. PapavERACEx.—Tribe EvPAPAVERER. 
Genus Eomecoy, Hance in Journ, Bot, vol. xxii. (1884) p. 376. 
EomeEcon chionantha; herba glaberrima, rhizomate perenni, succo croceo, foliis 
radicalibus longe petiolatis late cordiformibus sinuatis palmatinerviis subtus 
dealbatis, petiolo terete, scapis gracilibus elongatis apice ramosis, floribus 2 
poll. diametr., pedicellis elongatis basi bracteatis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, 
sepalis in spatham cymbiformem membranaceam caducam confluentibus, petalis 
4 amplis albis, staminibus numerosis, ovario oblongo, stylo valido elongato, 
stigmate breviter 2-lobo lobis erectis, placentis 2 polyspermis, capsula stipi- 
tata a basi ad apicem 2-valvi, seminibus tuberculatis. 
E. chionantha, Hance 7. ¢. et vol. xiv. (1845) p, 255. 
A beautiful monotypic genus of Papaveracee, inter- 
mediate, as its author Dr. Hance observes, between Stylo- 
phorum and Sanguinaria, differing from both in the scapose 
habit, racemose flowers, and sepals confluent in a mem- 
branous boat-shaped spathe, and further from Stylophorum 
in the form of the leaves and colour of the flowers; and 
from Sanguinaria in the four petals, elongate style, and 
stigmatic lobes alternating with the placentas. It was 
discovered by the Rev. B. C. Henry on the banks of 
rivers in the province of Kwangsi, to the westward of 
Canton, according to Dr. Hance, whose description of the 
fruit is given above. It is probably half hardy, having 
flowered in a frame in the Royal Gardens in September 
last, the plants having been sent by Mr. Ford, Superinten- 
dent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens, where it fruited 
in the spring of last year. 
Descr. Rootstock perennial, as thick as the fore-finger, 
creeping and ascending, clothed with the membranous 
bases of the sheaths of the petiole, abounding in yellow 
sap. Leaves all radical, long-petioled, three to six inches 
long, broadly cordiform with a very deep closed or open 
sinus, concave, thinly coriaceous, margin broadly sinuate, 
APRIL Ist, 1886. 
