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Epimepium Musscu1anum. WHuitTeE- 
FLOWERED BARREN-WORT. 
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Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Berserivez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 4 extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4 intus appen- 
dice discolore aucta. Capsula siliculeformis multisperma. 
Semina oblique transversim sita, unilateralia.—Herbe pe- 
rennes, folits radicalibus petiolatis multisectis, foliolis serrato- 
aristatis. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Erimepium Musschianum ; foliis ternatis, floribus squalide 
albidis, petalis calycem superantibus, stylo filiformi 
subcentrali, stigmate sublobato. ‘ 
Ermepium Musschianum ; Morren et Decaisne, Ann. Sc. 
Nat. 2 Ser. Tom. 2. p. 353. 
Wereceived this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
from Mr. Youne, of Epsom, in 1838. It flowered for the, 
first time in the green-house, in March, 1839 ; but will, 
without doubt, bear cultivation in the open border. It is 
one of the many acquisitions from the Flora of Japan, which 
European botanists owe to M. Von Sizsoxp. 
Descr. Petioles suberect, trifid, swollen at the point of 
subdivision, as well as the branches round ; barren ones (in 
the specimen described) glabrous and naked at the base, 
their subdivisions monophyllous, half as long as the petiole ; 
leaflets cordate, glabrous, seven-nerved, bright green above, 
subglaucous below; flower-bearing ones twice as long as the 
others, sheathed at the base by several equitant, inflated, 
glabrous, coloured, three-nerved stipules, loosely porn 
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