in habit in the Himalaya or China. One of these (that I 

 have myself gathered) G. BroMdegei, Wats., attains five 

 feet iu height ; its introduction into English gardens is much 

 to be desired. Eev. Dr. E. Faber, who is the discoverer 

 of so many new Chinese plants, appears to have been the first 

 to find C. thalictrifolia ; this was in the mountains of Mngpo. 

 Dr. Henry has sent specimens from Ichang, at the mouth 

 of the great gorge of Yangtze Kiang, in Hupeh, and from 

 Yunnan, collected by Father Ducloux. Mr. W. Hancock 

 found it at Mengtze in Yunnan. 



The specimen here figured was from a plant growing 

 luxuriantly, and flowering in July, 1901, in the rock 

 garden of Kew, which was obtained from Messrs. Veitch 

 & Sons, of Chelsea. 



Descr, — Whole plant flaccid, pale green. Bootdock 

 woody, giving off many inclined or almost decumbent, leafy 

 stems a foot or more long. Leaves four to six inches Jong, 

 the long petiole bearing towards the top usually five, 

 petiolulate, oblong or cuneiform, entire or bi-trisect lobu- 

 late leaflets which are often as broad as long. Baceme,^ 

 long-peduncled, three to six inches long, leaf-opposed or ter- 

 minal, loosely many-flowered. Bracts much longer than the 

 pedicels, elliptic or lanceolate, spreading, green, persistent. 

 Floivers an inch long, pale gold-coloured. Sepals minute, 

 deltoid. Spur shorter than the petals, stout, incurved, 

 tip rounded. Larger petals sub-equal, ovate-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, recurved, coata with a short dorsal wing ; smaller 

 petals spathulate, with a much thickened costa and 

 margins. Ovary very slender; stigma transverse, of two 

 capitate, diverging arms. Capsule an inch and a half long, 

 slender, falcate, terete, acuminate. Seeds many, half 

 immersed in the cupular strophiole. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, bract and flower; 2, sepal; 3, stamens; 4, Tjiatil; 5, seeds:— aZ^ 

 enlarged ; 6, portion oi fruiting raceme, of nat, ske, '' 



