Tar. 6958. 



ANEMONE Fanninii. 



Native of South Africa. 



Nat. Ord. KANUNCtrLACEiE. — Tribe Anemones. 

 Genus Anemone, Linn.; (Benth. et Hoolc. f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 4.) 



Anemone Fanninii; sericeo villosa, foliis amplis longe petiolatis orbicularis basi 

 profunde cordato-bilobis 5-7-lobis palmatinerviis superne subvelutinis, lobis 

 ovato-rotundatis duplicato-dentatis, scapis 2-3 pedalibus robustis 2-3-floris, 

 floribus amplis, sepalis numerosis lineari-lanceolati-i acuminata extus sericeis, 

 carpellis villosis, stylo filiformi glabro. 



A. Fanninii, Harv. rass. in Gen. So. Afric. PI. El. ii. 2 ; Masters in Gard. 

 C/iron. N. S. vol. xxv. (1836), p. 426, 432, fig. 81. 



This giant Anemone was discovered in 1863 at Dargle 

 Farm, Natal, by Mr. Gr. Fannin, who sent dried plants of 

 it to the late Dr. Harvey, and by him it was named in 

 manuscript after its discoverer. Specimens have sub- 

 sequently been received at Kew from Mr. J. M. Wood, 

 collected in 1883, on a grassy hill at Ismont, at an elevation 

 of 2000 feet ; and still later Dr. Masters has communicated 

 specimens from Mr. A. W. Adlam, of Pieter Maritzburgh, 

 Natal, who found it in open grassy situations at 3600 to 

 4000 feet elevation, and sent seeds to England. In an 

 interesting botanical sketch of a tour in Natal (" Gard. 

 Chron." I.e. 426) Mr. Adlam describes this Anemone as 

 growing five feet high with leaves two feet in diameter. 



The distribution of the genus Anemone in the southern 

 hemisphere is very peculiar ; beginning with the African 

 continent, one species (A. Thomsoni, Oliver) is found on 

 the equatorial mountain of Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of 

 9000 to 10,000 feet, its nearest congeners to the north 

 being two European species which occur in Algeria, for no 

 representative of the genus has been found in Abyssinia or 

 in Marocco. To the south again none occur till Natal is 

 reached, where A. Fanninii appears; whilst still further 

 south are the A. Caffra, Eckl. and Zey. (a near ally of 

 A. Fanninii), of Oaffraria, and A. capensis, L., which 

 grows on Table Mountain and other high ranges to the 

 westward. In South America the genus, though scantily 



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