— a 
Tas. 8850. 
PODOPHYLLUM Emopt, var. CHINENSE. 
Western China. 
BERBERIDACEAE. Tribe BERBERIDEAE. 
Poporayiium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 45. 
Podophyllum Emodi, Wall. Cat. n. 814 (1829) ; Hook. f. et Thoms. in Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 112; var. chinense, Sprague; foliis pedatim 
quinquepartitis vel tripartitis, segmentis omnibus tripartitis, floribus roseis 
distinguitur. 
Herba, rhizomate crasso horizontali folia et caules erectos annuos floriferos 
emittente perennans. Radices numerosae, carnosae, adventitiae, ad 2 dm. 
longae. Caules floriferi carnosi, 2°5-5 dm. longi, 0°81 cm. diametro, basi 
foliis pluribus cataphyllaribus vaginati, superne 2-3-foliati, internodiis sub 
anthesi 0°5-1°5 cm. longis, apice uniflori. Folia caulina petiolata, basi 
cordata, fere ad basin tripartita vel pedatim quinquepartita, segmentis ad 
medium trifidis, lobis ultimis acuminatis, sub anthesi petiolis erectis 
pedunculo appressis, laminis more involucri apicem pedunculi circum- 
dantibus deflexis parum expansis brunneo-variegatis, supra nervis venisque 
impressis, subtus breviter albo-villosis, nervis venisque prominentibus ; 
folia caulina sub fructu expanso, circiter 2°5 dm. diametro. Sepala fugacia, 
verosimiliter 6 (a nobis haud visa). Petala 6, ascendentia, obovata, rosea, 
margine undulata, 3 exteriora 4 cm. longa, 2°5-3°3 cm. lata, 3 interiora 
paullo minora. Stamina 6; filamenta incurva, 8-9 mm. longa; antherae 
anguste oblongae, obtusae, 7-8 mm. longae, lateraliter dehiscentes, con- 
nectivo lato. Ovariwm oblique ovoideum, circiter 1 cm. longum, sutura 
ventrali conspicue sulcata; stylus brevis ; stigma pluri-lobatum lobis sub- 
orbicularibus irregulariter imbricatis. Ovwla perplurima, placentae crassae 
carnosae valde intrusae affixa. Bacca ovoidea, circiter 5 cm. longa, rubra. 
—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
The Berberidaceous genus Podophyllum is the best 
known of several herbaceous genera of their natural 
family which are represented both in North America and 
in Eastern Asia, but are absent from Europe. It differs 
from the otherwise nearly related American genera 
Diphylleia, Michx, and Jeffersonia, Bart., in the longi- 
tudinal in place of valvular dehiscence of the anthers. 
The inflorescence of Podophyllum is best understood by 
comparison with that of Diphylleia, shown at t. 1666 of 
this work, where the flowers are disposed in a long- 
peduncled terminal cyme. In Podophyllum pleianthum, 
Aprit—JuNE, 1920. 
