Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. 191 



branches, suberect, bearing the pedicels, which are subglabrous, secund, 

 and often bipartite near its apex. Bractem small, subulate, adpressed, 

 solitary below the origin of the pedicels and their subdivisions, and six 

 imbricated adpressed u^jou the sides of the calyx, sprinkled with red 

 spots, deciduous. Flowers white, drooping, the upper expanding befoi'e 

 the lower. Calyx spreading or suberect, reflexed, sepals rhomboideo- 

 lanceolate, marked obscurely on the back by several parallel colourless 

 ribs. Petals erect, blunt, involute at the edge, together forming a short 

 cylinder in the centre of the flower, each having a short, .spreading, 

 subulate, compressed spur, reaching to about the middle of the sepal. 

 Stamens yellow, erect, half as Jong as the petals ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers elongated, subulate, 2-lobed, opening by lateral valves rolling 

 up from the base ; connective pointed. I'ktil scarcely longer than the 

 stamens ; germen oblong ; style lateral, about as long as the germen, 

 green ; stigma cupised, fringed. 

 We received this plant at tlie Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from Mr 

 Young of Ejisom in 1838. It flowered for the first time in the green- 

 house in March 1839, but will, without doubt, bear cultivation in the 

 open border. It is one of the many acquisitions from tlic flora of Japan 

 which European botanists owe to M. Von Siebold. 



Epimedium violaceum. 



E. violaceum ; foliis tiiternatis ; pedicellis subunifloris ; floribus viola- 

 ceis ; petalis calycem superantibus ; stylo filifbrmi sublaterali. 



Epimedium vdolaceum, Morren ct Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1834, p. 354, 

 1. 12. 



Description. — Barren petioU filiform, wiry, glabrous, trifid, swollen at 

 tlie joint, subdivisions nearly as long as the petiole, swollen at their 

 apices, spreading, each (in the specimen described) supporting one ob- 

 liquely cordate subacuminate leaflet, which (at least when old) is gla- 

 brous on both sides, spinuloso-ciliate. Fertile petioles reddish-brown, 

 nearly twice as long as the others, clothed with spreading hairs both 

 above and below the origin of the peduncle, trifid, and each branch 

 much longer than the space below it, to the origin of the peduncle , 

 sujiporting three cordate, acuminate leafets, of which the lateral ones 

 are oblique, the central equal, glabrous above, hairy below, 3-.5-nerved, 

 reticulate. Peduncle of unequal lengths, taking its origin (about 1 .^ inch) 

 below the subdivision of the petiole, and sometimes as long as the leaf, 

 generally shorter, round, and glabrous. Flowers violet, large and hand- 

 ome, subtended by 3-4 deciduous unequal bractece, racemose in the up- 

 per half of the peduncle, cernuous ; the lower pedicels occasionally 

 supporting two flowers, the others one only. Sepals four, ovato-lanceo- 

 late,acute, spreading wide, undulate. Petals imbricated, rounded, cu- 

 cullatc, inflected in the edge, each with a subulate ascending spur, 

 rather longer than the petal. Stamens erect, shorter than the limb of the 

 petals ; anther-cells opening by valves rolling upwards rather on the 

 outside, so as to bear a flattened undivided surface next the pistil ; pol- 

 len yellow, granules small, oval ; filaments short, colourless. Pistil ra- 

 ther longer than the stamens, but shorter than the limb of the petals ; 

 germen green, oblong ; style shorter than the germen, somewhat thick- 

 ened upwards, cupped at the apex, and bearing the stigmatic surface 

 on the edges of the cup. Orules about ten, attached to a lateral placenta. 



This, the handsomest species of the genus, flowered freely under n, iiand- 

 glass in the open border, at the nursery garden of Mr Cunningham, 

 (Jomelybank, Edinburgh, in April and May 1839. 



Fabiana imbricata. 



F. imbricata ; fruticosa, raraosissima ; foliis imbricatis, squamaiformi- 

 bus, floribus solitariis, tcrminalibus, lilacinis. — Spr. 



Fabiana imbricata, R. ^ P. Flor. Peniv. 2. 12. t. 122.— i'trs. Syuops. 1. 

 na.—Spr. Syst. Veget. 1. 615. 



