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* EPIMEDiUM violaceum. 

 Violet JEpimcdium. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. . 



Nat. Ord. Berberace^. 



EPIMEDIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 22. fol. 1906. 



§ Macroceras ; calcaribus petalorum elongatis. 

 E. violaceum; foliis triternatis : foliolis cordatis sagittatisque acuminatis cili- 



atis integerrimis, petiolorum nodis barbatis, floribus racemosis, petalis 



calcaribus subaequalibus. 

 E. violaceum. Morren ^ Decaisne in Ann. des Sc. not. n.s. II. 354. t. 12. A. 



Caulis 4-6 poll, longtis, subJlexMOso-ffeniculatus, teres, ad foliorum inser- 

 tionefn intumescens, epidertnide ruhro-fuscd vestitus^puhe alhd laxd Jiexuosd ad 

 nodos crebriore pilosus. Folia triternata, petiolata ; petiolus communis brevis, 

 se»ii-p)ollicem longus, coloratus, partiales 2-4 poll, longi, patidi, teretes, villosi, 

 virides; petioluli 1^-2 longi. Foliola cordata, acuminata, integra ; terminale 

 cequilaterum, 2 inferiora obliqua, lobis rotundatis vel subacuminafis ; juniora 

 colorata, margine intense purpmrea, membranacea, utrinque prcesertlm subtus 

 molliter puberula, demum glabrata ; intensh viridia, ciliata, basi 3-5-nervia, 

 reticulato-venosa, venis jjrimariis supern^ evanescentibus. Pedunculi oppositi- 

 folii, foliis longiores, poll. 4 circiter longi, simplices, pauciflori, recti, firmi, 

 teretes, glaberrimi. Flores speciosi, violacei. lin. 14 lati, pedicellati, pedicellis 

 cernuis, basi bracteolatis, pubendis. Calyx 3'4-sepalus ; sepalis inaqualibus, 

 2 exterioribus minoribus^ ovatis viridibus rubro-coloratis. Petala ovata-lance- 

 olata, cequalia, cahjcinis foliolis sub triplb longiora, margine subsinuosa, rubro- 

 violacea, nectariis paulo breviora. Nectaria A, petalis longitudine subcequalia, 

 longe calcarata, attenuata, assii,rgentia, intensh violacea. Stamina 4, ovario 

 sublongiora, pistillo breviora ; Glumenta brevia, crassiuscula, glaberrima ; an- 

 therae lineares, oblong ce, flavcB. Stylus sublateralis, ovario subaqualis, apice 

 subincrassatus, glaberrimus; stigmate discoideo piano coronatus. Ovarium 

 ovoideum, glaberrimutn, viride, pluriovulatum. Morren & Decaisne 1. c 



The little dingy Epimedium alpinurn, known only in the 

 gardens of Botanists, gave no promise of its representing a 

 line of beautiful herbaceous plants, and for a long time it 

 was supposed to be the only one of its race. 1 he researches 



* Botanical Register, vol. 22. fol. 1906. 

 August, 1849. Q 



