Hance, a Formosan species figured at t. 7098, and in 
P. versipelle, Hance, a Chinese species depicted on 
t. 8154, both of which have dark red or purple flowers, 
the cyme is sessile and resembles an umbel, while in 
P. peltatum, Linn., the well-known May Apple of the 
Eastern United States, figured at t. 1819, and in its 
Himalayan representative P. modi, Wall., of which the 
former has always and the latter has normally white 
flowers, the inflorescence is reduced to a solitary terminal 
flower. In P. Emodi, one variety of which forms the 
subject of our plate, we find the only species whose 
flowers expand before the leaves. In this case the 
solitary flower at first sight conveys the impression of 
being subtended by an involucre of sessile laciniate 
bracts. This apparent involucre is really composed of 
the blades of the two or three cauline leaves which 
closely surround the apex of the peduncle by their 
cordate bases. At this stage the stalks of the leaves are 
appressed to the peduncle of the flower while their blades 
are deflexed and not yet fully expanded. Between flower- 
ing and fruiting the petioles diverge from the peduncle 
and their blades expand to their full dimensions. The 
material for our plate we owe to Mrs. Woodward, in 
whose garden at Arley Castle, Bewdley, it was raised 
from Chinese seed received from Mr. R. Farrer, and 
flowered for the first time in May, 1919. There appears 
to have been an earlier introduction of P. E’modi, var. 
chinense, for in 1914 a plant was presented to Kew by 
Mr. H. J. Elwes, Colesborne, Cheltenham, with a note 
describing it as a ‘‘ seedling raised from a Podophyllum 
of Chinese origin with crimson flowers, sent me by 
Leichtlin, without name, some years ago.” This variety 
is a native of Kansu and Szechuan, where it occurs at 
altitudes of 8,000—10,000 feet, and may be distinguished 
from typical P. Hmodi by its much-divided leaves and 
constantly rose-coloured flowers. The true P. Emodi, 
which occurs in the Himalaya at altitudes of 6,000- 
10,000 feet, seems at first sight very different from the 
plant figured, for it has tripartite leaves with broad 
undivided segments, or with the lateral segments some- 
what bilobed. But /. Emodi proper, and its variety 
chinense, are connected by the variety Royleanum, Wall. 
