continuously in a warm greenhouse, from April, 1899, 
onwards, forming a compact mass of foliage, suggestive of 
a well-furnished Hellebore. I have named it in com- 
memoration of the services rendered to botanical science 
by the researches into the Chinese Flora of my friend, 
Mr. W. B. Hemsley, F.R.S. 
Descr.—Roots of fleshy, fascicled, fusiform tubers, with 
copious, black rootlets. Stem one to one and a half feet 
high, densely tufted, erect, sparingly branched, leafy, 
succulent, rose-pink, slightly hairy. Leaves erect, long- 
petioled, orbicular, four to five inches in diameter, palmati- 
partite’ or sub-pedate; segments seven to nine, radiating” 
from the top of the peduncle, sessile or narrowed into a 
short petiolule, lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly, rather 
distantly serrate, lateral pair sometimes lobulate, bright 
green above, pale beneath, young sometimes edged with 
red; petiole three to four inches long, erect, glabrous, 
rose-pink ; stipules half an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, 
herbaceous. Cyme dichotomous, few flowered, monccious ; 
bracts lanceolate, caducous ; pedicels of fem. lengthening 
and decurved in fruit. Male jl. one and a quarter inch 
diam. ; sepals orbicular-ovate, pale pink, darker coloured 
towards the tips; petals half as large, oblong. Stamens 
very many, capitate, filaments short, crowded on a° very 
short stipes; anthers pyriform, tip rounded, slits narrow; 
lateral. Fem. fl. :—perianth rather larger than the male; 
Segments five, sub-equal, oblong, obtuse ; style very short, 
stigmas two, hippocrepiform, with circinately incurved 
tae stigmatic band continuous. Capsule on an elongate, 
ecurved pedicel two inches long, broader than long, 
coriaceous, three-winged, dorsal wing much the longest, 
oblong, tip rounded 
: » Strongly many-ribbed, dehiscence 
meet ate opercular between the narrow wings.— 
alos = and 2, Anthers; 3, stigmas; 4, section of ovary; 5, capsule :—Al/ 
