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EpIMEDIUM VIOLACEUM. PurpLe BARREN- 
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Class and Order. 
HexanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—BeErBERIDEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 4 extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4, intus appen- 
dice discolor aucta. Capsula siliculeformis multisperma. 
Semina oblique transversim sita, unilateralia—Herbe pe- 
rennes, foliis radicalibus petiolatis multisectis, foliolis serrato- 
aristatis. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Erimepium violaceum; foliis subtriternatis, floribus viola- 
ceis, pedicellis subindivisis, petaloram calcaribus sepa- 
lum vix superantibus, stylo subclavato laterali. 
Epimepium violaceum. Morren et Decaisne, in Ann. Scienc. 
Nat. 2de Ser. Tom. 2. Botanique, p. 354. 
This, certainly the handsomest species of the Genus, was 
imported into Europe from Japan by M. von Srezoxp, and 
blossomed very freely in the open border under a hand- 
glass in Mr. CunninGHam’s Nursery, Comely Bank, Edin- 
burgh, in the beginning of April, 1839, and continued long 
in flower. 
Descr. Barren petioles filiform, wiry, at length glabrous, 
trifid, smaller at the joint, subdivisions nearly as long as 
the petiole, swollen at their apices, spreading wide, each 
supporting one, less frequently three, cordate, subacuminate 
leaves, at length glabrous on both sides, spinuloso-ciliate. 
Fertile petioles reddish-brown, nearly twice as long as the 
others, clothed with spreading hairs both above an a 
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