Japanese words: ki, yellow, and vengeshoma, the name of 
Anemonopsis macrophylla, Sieb. & Zucc.; but it is de- 
sirable that this example should not be followed. Similar 
compounds in Huropean languages are generally regarded 
as inadmissible; but Dr. Yatabe had a precedent, though 
not a parallel, in Aucuba, a Japanese name adopted by a 
Kuropean botanist. 
Dr, R. Yatabe discovered this plant in flower, in 1888, in 
Open woods, at an elevation of over 5,000 feet, on Mount 
Ishizuchi, in the province of Iyo, and in 1890 Mr. E. 
Yoshinaga sent him seeds from the same locality. As we 
learn from Mr. Watson’s note in the ‘Gardeners’ 
Chronicle,’ Dr. Yatabe sent seeds to Kew in 1891, from 
which, however, only one plant was raised. ‘ This,” he 
adds, ‘has been grown for ten years or so in a rather 
moist, sunny situation in the rock-garden, and it has now 
and then made an attempt to flower, but from some cause 
or other it has never revealed its true character until this 
year. Probably the excessive wet and other peculiarities 
of weather may have suited. At any rate it has made 
strong stems two feet high.” It flowered freely in Sep- 
tember and October, though some of the flowers fell before 
attaining full expansion, and it is certainly a very distinct 
and attractive plant. But it evidently has not yet found 
the most favourable conditions at Kew, as it grows three 
to four feet high in its native woods. The reduced figure 
in “‘ The Garden” gives a good idea of its habit. 
It is a noteworthy event the figuring of two mono- 
typic genera of the same natural order, from the same 
country, in the same number of the Magazine. And 
it emphasizes the richness of the Japanese flora as com- 
pared with the British flora. 
Descr.—A compact, perennial herb, about two feet high, 
as grown at Kew. Stems slender, glabrous, purple. 
Leaves papery, except the uppermost stalked, rotundate- 
cordate, palmately lobed, beset with rigid, appressed hairs 
on both surfaces, cauline mostly opposite, lower ones seven- 
to ten-lobed, sometimes six to seven inches in diameter, 
with petioles nine to ten inches long, smaller upwards, 
uppermost sessile, lanceolate; lobes of all acute, coarsely 
toothed. Peduneles axillary and terminal, usually three- 
flowered, overtopping the leaves. Bracts linear, acute, 
