Tab. 7858. 

 ANEMONE OBRNUA, 



Native of Manchuria and Japan. 



Nat. Ord. Eanunculace^. — Tribe ANEMONEifi. 

 Genus Anemone, Linn. ; {Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 4.) 



Anemoxk (Pulsatilla) cernua ; herba 6-lO-pollicaris sericeo-pilosa v. villosa, 

 rhizomate lignoso erecto, foliis radicalibua longe gracile petiolatis late 

 ovatis piunatisectis, segmentis 2-3-jugis oppositis pollicaribus late ovatis 

 oblongisve inciso-Iobatis basicuneatis, involucrifoliolis sessilibus trisectis, 

 laciniis demum patulis linearibus subacutis obtasisve apicibus sajpe 

 trifidia v. trilobis lobis inasqualibas, pedunculo laxe sericeo-tomentoso, 

 flore cernuo late campanulato l|-2 poll, lato sepalis ovato-oblongis 

 oljtusis intus pallida v. saturate brunneo-rnbris dorso pallidis denge sericeis, 

 staminibus numerosissimis, stylis azureis, carpellie maturis l|-2 poll, 

 longis longe sericeo pilosis. 



A. cernua, Thunb. Fl.Jap.ip. 238. BC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 16. Miquel, Ann. 

 Mils. Bot. Lugd. Bat vol. iii. (1867) p. 2. Franch. & Sav. En. PI. Jap. 

 vol. i. p. 4. Baker Sc Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol.xvii. (1879) p. 376. 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1883) p. 10. Somulcii Zusetzu, 

 vol. X. fol. 36. Honzo Zttftt, vol. vi. fol. 23. 



The genus Anemone presents flowers of many colours, in 

 both the xanthia and cyanic series, from red to blue, but 

 no other species known to me shows the remarkable dis- 

 position of colour seen in the variety of A. cernua, hero 

 figured, in which the inner surface of the sepals is red- 

 brown, the anthers yellow, and the styles blue. The 

 genus (including Pulsatilla and Eepatica) appears to be 

 exceptionally large in Japan, twenty-three species being 

 enumerated by Franchet and Savatier as natives of that 

 Archipelago, which is rather more than inhabit Europe. 

 Ledebour enumerates twenty-six as natives of the Russian 

 dominions ; fifteen are described in the " Flora of British 

 India." 



A. cernua is a native of the Island of Nipon, Japan, 

 in open sunny situations, as also of the Island of Saghalin, 

 of Corea, and is found all over Manchuria. It varies 

 greatly in size, in the greater or less abundance of the 

 beautiful soft, white, silky hairs that clothe it, and in the 

 darker or lighter colour of the sepals. The specimen 

 figured was procured from Mr. Max Leichtlin in 1900 ; 



OCIOBER 1st, 1902. 



