DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 75 
their indumentum; and since the sepals of C. acuminata var. Wallichii are, when young, densely 
pubescent on the outside, there is indeed no good character to separate the Javanese plant from C. 
acuminata. Closely allied to C. acuminata var. Wallichti is Franchet’s C. yunnanensis, which differs 
from the former chiefly in the leaflets being smaller and their texture being somewhat firmer, and 
in the inflorescences usually originating in the axils of branches. We arrive thus at the following 
arrangement. 
Subspecies I. LEscHENAULTIANA, DC.; leaflets coriaceous to | chartaeeous, ovate or broadly ovate 
lanceolate, terminal ones 5-14 cm. long, more or less covered with coarse hairs; sepals covered outside 
with coarse brownish tomentum; inflorescences from axils of leaves.— Sumatra, Java, Timor. The state- 
ment that it has been found in the Nilgiris rests probably on some error. 
‚ Subspecies II. Уашмлени, М. f. et Т.; leaflets chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 6—12 cm. long; 
sepals outside tomentose-marginate otherwise pubescent; inflorescences from axils of leaves.—Flowers 
from October to December.—Garhwal (Royle, Brandis!); Kumaon (Davidson 1); Nepal (Wallich 7); 
Bhatan (Herb. Cale. !). 
Subspecies ІП. YUNNANENSIS, Franchet; leaflets chartaceous, ovate lanceolate, 3—6 cm. long, 
puberulous; sepals puberulous outside; inflorescences mostly from the axils of branches.—Yunnan. 
ubspecies IV. srkxiwENsIs Hook. fil. et Thomson; leaflets chartaceous or subcoriaceous, ovate or 
oblong, terminal ones 6-15 cm. long; sepals outside tomentose-marginate, otherwise glabrous or pubescent 
inflorescences from axils of leaves.— Flowers from September to December.—Central and eastern tem- 
perate Himalaya; Mishmi and dw hills; Burma; Yunnan (2). 
Var. а. Ноокен, Р. В; leaflets ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate; inflorescences many-flowered : 
sepals 10—15 mm. long, ovate-oblong, with obtuse tip.— Simla (Gamble 7); Sikkim (Hook. fil. ; 
King!); near Darjeeling (T. Thomson, Gambl2!), Senchal (Kurs /) ; Kurseong (Clarke ?); 
Bhutan, 6,000’, (Clarke!); Assam: Jowai 5,0007 (King’s coll. 1); Mishmi (Grif. 1); 
Naga Hills (Grif.!) ; Реса (Brandis !). 
Var. В. CLARKEI, 0. Kuntze (emend.); leaflets broad-ovate; inflorescences 3-flowered, sometimes 
with some undeveloped additional buds; sepals 15—20 mm. long, ovate-oblong, acute.— 
Sikkim (Clarke; King.!). 
Var. у. ANDERSONI, P. B.; leaflets ovate-oblong, short-acuminate; inflorescences several-flowered ; 
sepals 25—30 mm. long, lanceolate-linear, obtuse or subacute and minutely apiculate at the 
tip. Northern Burma or Yunnan (Anderson). 
Prate 104. Clematis acuminata, DC. 1, flowering branch of C. Wallichii; 2, stamen ; 3, pistil of the same; 4 and 5, 
inflorescence and terminal leaflet of C. sikkimensis, var. Hookeri; 6, inflorescence of var. Clarkei; 7, flower of var. 
Andersoni. 
ANEMONE GRIFFITHII Н. f. её T. 
Rootstock woody, more or less horizontal. Stem slender, 7—15 cm. high when in 
flower, glabrous or somewhat hairy below. Basal leaves usually solitary, with the unde- 
veloped bud of next year in their axils, very long-petioled, trisect or trifoliolate with the 
leaflets short-petioled, sparsely adpressedly hairy along the nerves on both surfaces or 
glabrous on the lower surface; lateral leaflets or segments more or less asymmetric, bi- or 
trifid, sometimes only obscurely so, middle one more or less trifid, all of them cuneate 
at the base or the lateral ones semicordate, acute at the tip, crenate-serrate or incised- 
crenate, 12—24 mm. long, crenatures apiculate. Pefiole sheathing and hairy at the base, 
` upwards glabrous or nearly so, 2--35 times as long as the blade. Cauline leaves 3, 
whorled, similar to the basal leaves, but often rather smaller, petiole only $ to $ tbe 
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length of the blade. Peduncle slender, ebracteate, + to $ as long as the stem below the 
