Tas. 8636. 
ANEMONE opsrusiLosa, forma PATULA. 
Himalaya, Burma and China. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe ANEMONEAE. 
AnEMonE, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 4. 
Anemone obtusiloba, Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 194; Hook. f. et Thoms. Fl. 
Ind. vol. i. p. 22, et in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol.i. p.8; Finet et Gagnep. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. li. p. 62; species sat variabilis ab A. rupestri, 
Wall. ex Hook. f. et Thoms., habitu robustiore, foliisque minus divisis 
recedit ; forma patula ramis floriferis elongatis pedunculis adscendentibus 
instar. 
Herba perennis. Folia juventute erecta, demum patula, rosulata, ambitu 
magis minusve ovata, circa 5 cm. longa et lata, tripartita segmentis trifidis, 
subtus pallidiora, pagina utraque pilis longis albis instructa, nervis subtus 
prominulis, supra leviter impressis ; petioli 6-7 cm. longi, pilis longis albis 
divergentibus instructi nisi inferne ubi complanati, pallidi et supra glabri. 
Ramuli floriferi decumbentes, pedicellis exclusis 20 cm. longi, basi 4 mm. 
diametro, plurisulcati, virides vel brunneo-virides, pilis longiusculis albidis 
adscendentibus instructi, apice involucro circiter 2°5 cm. longo e bracteis 
4 foliosis composito ornati, flores 1-3 gerentes. Pedicelli terminales ad 
20 cm. longi, laterales haud rarissime evoluti ad 8 cm. longi, omnes 
apicem versus bibracteolati et ut pedunculus communis sulcati et pube- 
scentes. Flores coeruleo-purpurascentes, expansi 3°5-4 cm. diametro; 
sepala saepius 5, raro 6, plus minusve obovata, basi in unguem latum saepe 
vix conspicuum angustata, dorso medio pubescentia. Filamenta circiter 
5 mm. longa, complanata, apice angustata, omnino glabra, antheris vix 
2 mm. longis. Carpella pilis brunneis rigidis erectis obtecta, stylo per- 
brevi.— W. G. Crarn. 
The Anemone here figured was collected by Mrs. 
Wheeler Cuffe at a high altitude on Mount Victoria, a 
peak 12,500 feet in height in the Arakan Yomah in 
Western Burma. Attempts, all of which had proved 
unsuccessful, had been made to send seeds to Europe 
but, during a visit which Mrs. Cuffe was able to pay to 
Mount Victoria in 1913, she was able to obtain plants 
which she brought home herself and presented to the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Here they throve 
well in a cold frame, where they have passed uninjured 
through two winters, flowering freely in May and June. 
From one of these plants, sent by Sir Frederick Moore for 
NovEMBER, 1915. 
