Tas. 8565. 
TROLLIUS cuHINEnsIs. 
North China. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe HELLEBOREAR. 
Trottivus, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 7. 
Trollius chinensis, Bunge in Mém. Sav. Htr. Pétersb. vol. ii. p. 77; species a 
Tt oe Reichb., cui maxime affinis, sepalis numerosioribus distin- 
guenda,: 
Herba perennis. Caulis validus, striatus, glaber, internodiis inferioribus 17 em. 
longis. Folia radicalia deficientia, caulina inferiora ambitu reniformia, 
superiora orbiculari-reniformia, usque ad 12 cm. longa et 16°5 cm. lata, 
palmatim 5-partita, segmentis ambitu late oblanceolatis apice acutis basi 
cuneatis usque ad 8 cm. longis et 5 cm. latis lobatis parte inferiore excepta 
acute serratis, nervis primariis et secundariis pagina superiore conspicuis 
inferiore prominentibus, membranaceo-chartacea, glabra, subtus pallidiora, 
petiolo lato ad 1 cm. longo suffulta. Pedwneuli modo caulis striati, : 
usque ad 28 cm. longi, paulo supra medium bracteolis duabus alternis 
foliosis tripartitis ornati. Sepala 12-13, exteriora late ovata, usque ad 
2 cm. longa et 1°6 cm. lata, interiora exterioribus longiora et saepissime 
paulo angustiora, omnia apice rotundata, plus minusve conspicue venosa. 
Petala 20, linearia, utrinque angustata, apice acuta vel acutiuscula, 
2°7 cm. longa, 2°25 mm. lata. Stamina glabra, filamentis usque ad 
8 mm. longis, antheris apiculatis ad 3°5 mm. longis. Carpella glabra, 
stylo quam ovarium saltem dimidio breviore, ovulis biseriatis circiter 10. 
—W. G. Crars. 
Among the plants from the northern provinces of China 
which have recently been introduced or re-introduced to 
European gardens by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons through 
their collector, Mr. W. Purdom, one of the most 
interesting is the subject of our plate, to which, although 
it has been in cultivation for many years at Kew and 
elsewhere, this fresh introduction has directed more 
critieal attention. In English gardens this species, which 
is a perennial that thrives vigorously and seeds freely in 
cultivation when grown in the bog garden or beside 
water under the same conditions as the Globe Flower, 
Trollius europaeus, Linn., has for many years been 
treated as merely a form of J. asiaticus, Linn., a species 
figured long ago at t. 235 of this work. While, however, 
this has been the custom in most collections, there 
has been a feeling among the more observant of our 
cultivators that this treatment was not justifiable, and 
Suny, 1914, 
