Puate 1996. 
PODOPHYLLUM VERSIPELLE, Hance. 
BERBERIDACES. Tribe BERBERES. 
; versipelle, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1883, 362; foliis caulinis sepius 
q 
subcentrice peltatis circumscriptione orbicu ib uad- 
ratisve 5—9-lobatis, lobis ovatis v. ovato-deltoideis us obovatis 
_ acutis apiculatisve subulato-denticulatis, glabris v. subtus parce 
pilosulis, inferiore longiuscule superiore breviter petiolatis, cymis 
umbelliformibus sepius 3-8 (12)-floris extra-axill s sessilibus, 
floribus cernuis pedicello glabro v. piloso brevioribus v. e Seca 
| factions aliipeoldete eae coronatis orien pericarpio tenue, 
Has. Prov. eb Sire Lofaushan Mtns., Rev. B. C. Henry; Prov. 
“Hupeh, Mage hm districts, and Szechwan, So. Wushan, Dr. A. Henry 
i, Rev. F. Faber. 
Mt. 0 
- 10-18 poll. diam. ; petiolus fol. inf. 6-8 poll., fol. sup. 1-2 poll. 
Bs 8. Pedicelli sepius simplices decurvi, 1-2 poll. longi. Flores 
a poll. diam. ; petala 4-3 poll. longa. Fructus 14 poll. longus. 
Ana compressa immersa oblonga + poll. longa. 
__ The two Chinese species agree in their isostemonous stamens, 
lage from extra-Chinese species in their several-flowered inflores- 
: and from each other in the size of the flowers and position of 
Eten inflorescence. In P. pleianthwm the flowers are three to four times 
4 as in P. versipelle, and originate in the fork between the two 
leaves which are borne on subequal petioles, while in the present species 
the floriferous axis is continnons with the upper leaf to how an inch 
: or so below the lamina.—D. Oxtve 
one s spot. The name given to it by the Chinese in these parts is 
pa-chio-lien—i.e. “ ‘ohenagied Nelembium,” from the shape of the 
