which our figure has been prepared was raised at Kew 
from seed obtained from Messrs. Regel and Kesselring, 
Petrograd, in 1913. The majority of the plants thus 
raised flowered for the first time in 1915. In the Rock 
Garden at Kew S. manshuriensis is in flower from July 
to August. It has proved a hardy perennial, easy to 
cultivate, which flourishes well in moist shady spots. 
Description.—Herb, fleshy, scapigerous, with a short, stout rootstock. 
Leaves several radical, long-petioled; lamina rounded-reniform, 2-23 in. long, 
22-33 in. across, coarsely crenate, the teeth apiculate, dark green and glabrous 
above, paler and sparingly finely pilose beneath, the margin very shortly 
ciliolate ; petiole 4-53 in. long, hirsute, reddish. Scape solitary, about 14 in. 
long, rather densely‘hirsute with gland-tipped hairs. “Panicle terminal, much 
congested, subglobose, about 14 in. across; bracts linear, the lowest about in. 
long, acute, reddish; pedicels densely glandular-pilose. Flowers usually 
6-8-merous. Sepals reflexed, oblong lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, about 
zy in. long, ciliate. Petals spathulate-oblong, slightly retuse, } in. long. 
Stamens twice as many as the petals; filaments clavate, anthers shortly oblong. 
Pistils red, free nearly to the base, shorter than the stamens, flask-shaped, 
Tas. 8707.—Fig. 1, portion of under surface of leaf; 2, flower-bud; 8, open» 
flower ; 4, calyx and pistil; 5 and 6, stamens; 7, sketch of an entire plant :— 
all enlarged except 7, which is much reduced. 
