1906 



* EPIMEDIUM macranthum. 

 Large-jlowered Epimedium. 



TETR ANURIA MONOGYH^IA. 



Nat. ord. Berberace^e. 



EPIMEDIUM, L. — Sepala 4, discolora, petalis opposlta. Petala 8, 

 colorata; exteriora simplicia; interiora calcarata. 'S^«/rtin« 4, petalis interioribus 



opposita. Capsula siliculfeformis, polysperma. Herba; perennes, foliis 



radicalibus comjiositis, foliolis serrato-aristalis. 



E. macranthum ; foliis triternatis, foliolis cordatis ovatis,petiolis pilosis, raceinis 

 multifloris, sepalis Hnearibus obtusis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis exterioribus 

 quam interiorum calcaria duplo brevioribus. 



E. macranthum. Morren ^ Decaisne Ann. des Sc. ser. II. 2. 352. t. 13. 



A very pretty sweet-scented species, remarkable for the 

 large size of its pale violet flowers. It has been amply de- 

 scribed by Messrs. Morren and Decaisne, from plants that 

 flowered in the garden of the University of Ghent, where it 

 forms one out of one hundred and sixty species of Japanese 

 plants bronght to Europe alive by Dr. von Siebold. This is 

 by far the most considerable importation from Japan that 

 has yet been made, and its results have been so satisfactory 

 as to lead us to hope that the Dutch may be the means of 

 bringing us acqnainted with a larger portion of the beautiful 

 plants of that most singular country. 



The drawing of this species was made in April last, from 

 a plant in the possession of Mr. Osborne of the Fulham Nur- 

 sery. It is no doubt quite hardy, and is well worth the 



* An old name, supposed to be derived from Media, where the plant to which 

 it belonged was reported to grow ; that j)lant does not however appear to have 

 had any resemblance to the Epimedium of modern writers. 



