The upper leaves on the plant are simply ternate or 

 digitately five-foliolate. 



R. finnata appears to be a common plant in the 

 mountain region of Yunnan, at elevation of seven thousand 

 to eight thousand feet, growing in shaded places by water 

 courses, where it was first found by the Abbe Delavay in 

 1883. Seeds of it were sent to tbe Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 by Mr. Henry, in 1898, from which plants were raised 

 that flowered in the Rock Garden in July, 1902. The 

 flowers have a delicate, angelica-like odour (Henry). 



Descr. — A tall, unbranched herb, with a large horizontal 

 rootstock. Stem hollow, silkily hairy at the leaf axils. 

 Leaves long-petioled, digitately pinnate ; petiole stout ; 

 leaflets five to nine, towards the apex of the petiole, six to 

 eight inches long, obovate or oblanceolate, acute, coarsely 

 unequally toothed, narrowed to the base, very many- 

 nerved ; lateral leaflets usually four to six in opposite 

 pairs or threes, terminal usually three, digitate, leaf-like. 

 Flowers in a large, sparsely hirsute, much-branched panicle ; 

 rachis and branches rose-red, pedicels very short. Calyx 

 puberulous, lobes ovate, sub-acute, externally red, white 

 within. Petals 0. Stamens ten, about as long as the 

 calyx-lobes ; anthers ovoid, purple. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary: — all enlarged. 



