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EPIMEDIUM pinnatum. 
Pinnate-leaved Hpimedium. 
Nat. Ord. BERBERIDEH.—TETRANDRIA MOoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala extus basi bibracteolata. Petala 4 intus appendice dis- 
colore aucta. Capsula siliculiformis, polysperma. Semina oblique transversim 
sita, unilateralia—Herbe perennes, foliis radicalibus petiolatis, foliolis serrato- 
aristatis. De Cand. 
EpIMEDIUM pinnatum; hirsutum, foliis ternatis vel biternatis, foliolis longe 
petiolulatis adultis glabris cordato-ovatis ciliato-serratis, racemis radicalibus 
multifloris, petalis rotundatis, nectariis cucullatis calcaratis, margine erosis. 
EPIMEDIUM pinnatum. Fisch. in De Cand. Syst. Veget. v.2. p.29. Prodr. v. 1. 
p.110. Repert. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.1. p.441. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 1. p. 81. 
A most lovely little hardy plant, with flowers in form and size 
and colour resembling some Helianthemum, but, when they are 
inspected, the curious structure of an Hpimediwm may be detected. 
We owe our plants in the Royal Gardens, where they flowered 
in March, to Mr. Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic Garden. 
It is a native of shady mountain woods in Gilan, a province of 
Persia, where it was first detected by Hablitz. It has since 
been found in the Caucasian region, on Mount Talusch, between 
Lenkoran and Suwant, at an elevation of 2,400 feet above the 
level of the sea. 
Descr. From a short rhizoma, partially underground, and 
more or less clothed with the large stipular scales of the base of 
the leaf-stalk, arise several /eaves and flower-scapes, both one 
and the other clothed with patent hairs in the young state. 
Leaves a span or more long when fully formed, sometimes 
ternate, more generally twice ternate, or in other words pinnate 
with five leaflets, the two pairs very remote : the /eqflets are ovato- 
cordate, with a deep narrow sinus, acute, ciliato-serrate, glabrous, 
except on the nerves beneath. Seapes about as long as the 
fully developed leaves, but bearing the raceme of flowers while 
the leaves are still young. Pedicels short, with minute bracteas. 
Calye with two, small, deciduous bracts. Sepals four, ovate, 
JULY Ist, 1849. 
