Tab. 7848. 

 DEOAISNBA Faegesii. 

 Native of China. 



Nat. Old. Bekbeeide^.— Tribe Lardizabalej:. 

 Genus Decaisnea, Rooh.f.; [Benth. Sf HooJe.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 42.) 



Decaisnea Fargesii; frutex erectus, glaberi-imus, polygamo-dioicns, caulibua 

 strictis erectis param divisis apicem versus foliosis, foliis pedalibus 

 patalis impari-pinnatis, petiolo gracili tereti, foliolis oppositis multijugis 

 petiolulatis ovatis oblongisve subcaudato-acuminatia, racemis axillaribas 

 elongatis decurvis, bracteis ^ poll, longia elongato-subulatis patulia 

 caducis, floribng pendulia viridibua, sepalis lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, 

 petalis 0, fl. masc. filamentia in tubum elongatum cylindracenm apice 

 antheriferum connatis, antheris tubo adnatis linearibns connectivo in 

 unguem erectum producto, fl. foem. ataminodii tubo brevissimo antheria 

 longe cuspidatis, carpellis lineari-oblongis, fructua carpellis 3-4-poni- 

 caribus lineari-oblongie rectis cylindraceis j poll. diam. Isevibua aubtorulosis 

 C8Qruleis, seminibus oblongis ad 5 poll, longis atris. 



D, Fargesii, Franch. in Journ. de JBot. vol. vi. (1892) p. 233. D. Bois in 

 Journ. Soc. Nation. d'Horiic. France, Ser. IV. vol. i. (1900) p. 190 ; et m 

 Bev. Hortic. 1900, p. 270, figg. 122, 123, 124. 



Becaisnea Fargesii, is a very interesting plant, a second 

 species of a very remarkable Eastern Himalayan genns, 

 thus affording a conspicuous example of the affinity of the 

 Himalayan and Chinese mountain Floras. The type species, 

 D. insignis, Hook, f., is figured at t. 6731 of this work, 

 where its position in the tribe Lanlizahalese of Berbcridex 

 is indicated. The resemblance of B. Fargesii to D. 

 insignis, in habit, foliage, inflorescence and flowers is very 

 close indeed, the principal difl'erences in fohage and 

 flowers being, that the leaflets of D. Fargesii are of a 

 darker green, and have rather longer tips, the sepals liavo 

 longer, much narrower tips, and the bracts are longer and 

 more persistent. The remarkable distinction between these 

 species lies in the fruit, the carpels of which in 1). uisiU'H-'^ 

 are three to four inches long, by an inch and a half hi diame- 

 ter, strongly falcately incurved, golden-yellow, with a some- 

 what mamillate surface, and the seeds are Jialf an mcli 

 long, and brown ; in D. Fargesii the carpels are only two 

 and a half to three inches long, by half an inch in diameter, 

 are nearly straight, dull blue in colour, and are said to 

 resemble blue caterpillars, and the seeds are much smaller 



August I&t, 1902.J 



