Tan. 6413. 
ANEMON OPSIS mMscRoPHYLLA,. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacex.—Tribe HELLEBORER. 
Genus Anemonorsis, Sieb. et Zuce. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 8). 
ANEMonopsis macrophylla, elata, glaberrima, caule ramisque gracilibus rigidis 
flexuosis cylindraceis purpurascentibus, foliis amplis bi- tri-ternatis, petiolis 
petiolulisque gracilibus rigidis, foliolis ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolatis grosse 
irregulariter subduplicatim serratis acutis v. acuminatis, intermedio petiolu- 
lato, lateralibus sessilibus, racemis laxifloris, floribus longe pedicellatis 
nutantibus, bracteolis pedicello et rachi parvis lanceolatis v. trifidis viridibus, 
floribus diametro sesquipollicaribus pallide lilacinis, sepalis 3 exterioribus 
concavis dorso saturate fusco-purpureis. : 
A, macrophylla, Sieb.et Zuec. F1. Jap. Fam. Nat. sect. 1, p. 75; Walp. Ann. vol. 
i. p. 155. 
Though described upwards of thirty years ago, this highly 
remarkable plant has until recently been little known to 
botanists; nor until very lately has it been brought under 
cultivation. It was discovered in North Japan by the Dutch 
traveller and naturalist, Siebold, and described by him and his 
coadjutor in publication, Zuccarini, in the Transactions of the 
Bavarian Academy of Sciences about 1847. Since then it has 
been collected by Tchnonoski in 1864, and specimens com- 
municated by him to Maximovicz, the very learned Russian 
botanist, who spent many years in the exploration of the 
Japanese Archipelago, and by whom magnificent dried 
Specimens were sent to Kew. From these the details of the 
fruit and seeds are given in the accompanying plate. 
\ Anemopsis is a near ally of Cimicifuga, differing in its very 
large anemone-like flower, and in the shape of the petals ; it 
consists of but one species. The plant from which our figure 
was made flowered on the rock-work at Kew in July of last 
year. 
FEBURARY Ist, 1879. 
