Tas. 7490. 
ADONIS amurensis. 
Native of Manchuria and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Rayuxcutacez.—Vribe ANEMONES. 
Genus Aponis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook, f, Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 5.) 
Aponis (Consiligo) amurensis; perennis, robusta, glabra v. sparse pilosa, 
caule basi aphyllo longe vaginato superne folioso, foliis (spuriis e. fol. 
2-3 confluentibus constantibus) caulinis petiolatis (supremis sessilibus) 
amplis ambitu fere orbicularibus 3-sectis segmentis pinnatisectis, pin- 
nulis anguste oblongis argute pinnatifidis, petiolo (axi secundario) robusto 
vagina elongata membranacea instructo, floribus breviter pedunculatis 
amplis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis 20-50 sepalis paullo longioribus _ 
anguste obdovatis subspathulatisve versicoloribus, carpellis subglobosis 
stylo elongato recurvo, maturis dense pubescentibus stylo uncinato. 
A. amurensis, Regel & Radde, Bot. Abtheil. Radde Reis. Sud-Ost Sibir. vol. 
i. (1861) p. 33, t. 2, f. 1,2; et in Bull. Soe. Nat. Mosc. (1861) vol. ii. p. 35, 
t. 2,f.1,2. #. Schm. Reis. in Amurl. et Ins. Sachal. pp. 30,104. Franch. 
in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris. Ser. 3, vol. vi. pp. 84, 88. Hemsl. in Gard. 
Chron. (1887) vol. ii. p. 491. 
Fu Ku Jus6 Shin Dsu. (Figures of varieties of Adonis amurensis). 
A. apennina, var. y, dahurica, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 491, 
Adonis amurensis was discovered on or near the Bareya 
Mts., on the right bank of the lower Amur river, Lat, 
50 N., in what are now called the Amur Provinces of 
Russia; and it has since been found in Islands of Sachalin, 
Jesso, and in the north of Nippon. It was first described 
by Maximovicz from a very imperfect specimen as a variety 
of A. apennina, but was subsequently discriminated by 
Regel and Radde, and still more recently studied by 
Franchet, in a valuable paper cited above, and entitled 
**on the perennial species of Adonis and their geographical 
segregation.” In this paper Franchet points out that the 
apparent petiole with trisect leaf is really an arrested axis 
bearing two or three leaves, of which the petioles resemble 
the divisions of a single petiole, and were mistaken for 
them. The so-called leaf is therefore a branch, inserted 
in the axis of a leafless or almost leafless sheath. This 
arrangement Franchet regards as common to most pro- 
bably all the species of the Consiligo group of Adonis ; they 
Aveust Ist, 1896. 
