Tab. 7892. 

 RODGERSIA pinnata. 



Native of China. 



Nat. Ord. Saxifragace^e. — Tribe Saxifrages. 

 Gen ns Rodgersia, A. Gray; {Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. C35.) 



Rodgersia piwnara; herba elata, 6-pedalia, rbizomate craasissirao brevi, caulo 

 ascendeute simplici fistuloso, collo nodisque sericeo-pilosia, foliis digitatim 

 impari-pinnatis radicalibus longe petiolatia, foliolia bi-tri-jugia amplis 

 6-8-pollicaribua obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis inaequaliter argute den- 

 tatia multinerviis basi'angustatis foliis superioribus digitatim 3-5-folio- 

 iatis, foliolis baai anguatiorilms, inflorescenta terminali 1-2-pedali erecta 

 cymoso-paniculata ramosissima, ramia ramulisque hirtellia roseis, floribus 

 breviter pedieellatis ^ poll. diam. odoratis, calycis Iobis ovatia aubacutia 

 extus roaeis intus albis, staminibas 10 sepalis aubasqnilongis, antheris 

 ovoideis purpureia connectivo breviter producto obtuso, ovarii carpellis 

 conicia in stylos craasoa attenuatis basi connatia. 



R. pinnata, Franch. PI. David, vol. ii. p. 214, in nota. Henry in Gard. 

 Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 132, fig. 44. 



Astilbe pinnata, Franch. PI. Delav. p. 231. 



The genns Rodgersia is very closely allied to Astilbe, 

 differing chiefly, if not wholly, in the foliage, its leaves being 

 digitately pinnate, those of Astilbe ternately bipinnate. 

 One species has been already figured in this work, Ii. 

 podopfajlla, A. Gray, t. 6691, a native of Japan, upon 

 which the genus was founded ; it has digitately five- 

 foliolate leaves, very small, yellowish-white flowers, 

 slender filaments, didymous anthers, and a depressed, 

 orbicular ovary. In an excellent article upon Rodgersia, 

 by Mr. Henry, in the Gardeners' Chronicle, the genus is 

 described as consisting of four species, 11. podopkylla, 

 A. Gray, R. pinnata* Franch., R. xsculifolia, Ratal, in 

 Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xiii. p. 96, a native of China, and 

 R. Henrici, Franch. in Rev. Hortic. 1897, p. 174, a species 

 brought by Prince Henry of Orleans from Western 

 Yunnan. In that article Mr. Henry describes (lie leaves of 

 R. pinnata as quasi digitate, consisting of three leaflets 

 ternately disposed, then two pairs of opposite leaflets, and 

 a terminal solitary petiolulate leaflet ; when only six leaflets 

 are present they are disposed in two teruate clusters. 

 Mm Wi; ivos. 



