DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 85 
From the form of 4. ро/уавіЛев with compound umbels this is pretty easily distinguished by the 
rarer indumentum, the less regular umbels and umbellule:, the subcentral and straight persistent 
style, and the distinctly ribbed seeds. А plant, in nearly every respect like A. elongata, but with one- 
sided and recurved persistent style, was gathered by Maingiy in Northern China on the Shan-tung 
range (3,200). lt is not referred to in Hemsley’s Enumeration. The specimens of Wallich’s Anemone 
curta and Anemone g.raniijolia in the Calcutta Herbarium are umbellu'es of either Anemone elongata 
or of the compound form of Anemone polyanthes. Anemone polyarthes is completely linked with A. 
narcissiflora by numerous inteimediate forms from Turkestan, ‘Tibet, and Northern Sikkim; it must 
therefore be reduced to the rank of a subspecies of A. narcissiflora. 
Prare 108. Anemone elongata, Don. 1, sepal; 2, stamens: (a) outer, (b) middle, (c) inner; 3, pistils : (a) outer, (2) 
innermost ; 4, achenes: (a) and (b) from Khasia, (b) half of pericarp cut away to show the seed; (c) №. W. Him, 
unripe; (d) China Maingay’s specimen referred to in the text; (e) of A. polyanthes var. longipeduncula, P. B., Sikkim; 
(f) of А. polyanthes typica, Kumaon; (g) the same, Sikkim; (А) of A. narcissiflora, Гугепеез. 6, a—d, А. 
geraniifolia, Wall. Саб. 4693 in Herb. Cale, (a—e) stamens, (d) pistil; (e) pistil of А, rivularis. 6, A. curta, 
Wall. Cat. 4690 in Herb. Calc., Sylhet, stamens and pistil ; 7, 4. rivularis, Wall. Cat. 4692, Nipal. 
ADONIS BREVISTYLA, Franchet, var. TRICHOCARPA, P. В. 
The plant figured on plate 169 belongs to the group of species of which A. caerula, Max m., А. Рата, 
Franchet, and A. lreristyla, Franchet, are members. The latter two me known to the writer only from 
Franchet’s lucid descriptions and the accompanying figures. Our plant differs from A. Davidi by tho 
stem being 40—50 instead of 20—50 cm. long, by the leaves being rather distant, the lower internodes b. ing 
75—11 em. instead cf 5-7 cm. long, by the vagina of the lowest leaves being 1 ст. or less instead of 
2 5—3 cm. long, by the lateral branches being 10—20 cm. instead of about 5 ёш. long, by the uppermost 
leaves being considerably smaller than the lower ones, by the petals being apparently smaller (15—15 
instead of 16—29 mm.) and more or less sulphur-yellow instead of bluish. 
The chief differences appear to be in the more slender habit of our form, in the shortness of the 
sheaths of the lower leaves, and the colour of the petals. From Franchet’s 4. brevistyla it differs by the 
leaves not beiug densely crowded, by the sheaths of the upper leaves being short, by the segments of the 
first order being ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate in outline and not ovate-deltoid, by the number of 
sepals being 5 instead of 6—7, by the ovaries being hairy and not glabrous, and by the style not being very 
short in comparison with the ovary during flowering. The affinity to A. cerul.a, Maxim. appears to 
be much less close. The following is a detailed description of our plant. 
А perennial he:b, glabrous except the ovaries, 80—50 em. high when in flower. 
Rhizome descending, subcylindric, covered at the apex with oblong obtuse scales. Stem 
erect, straight or flexuose, slender, obtuse-angled, simple or oftener branched upwards, 
leafy from near the base, 2—3 mm. thick near base; branches 0—3, spreading, very 
slender, leafy, often overtopping the main axis. The leaves may be considered as sessile or 
nearly so, the lower pinnz being inserted near the base, but very small and of the appear- 
ance of stipules; petioles dilated into a short sheath, half-stem-clasping ; suprabasal pinnze іп 
outline ovate-oblong, below bipinnatisect, lower 10—16 x 4—7 cm., uppe:most 2—5 em. 
long; rhachis canaliculate, lower pseudo-potioles 4—9, upper 2—7 em. long; leaf-segments 
opposite, subopposite, or alternate; lowest primary segments (pinnz) springing from the 
vagina, ovate or subrotund in outline, 9—18 mm. long; the others ovate-lanceolate ; secondary 
ones sessile ovate-oblong and lanceolate in outline; lacinie lanceolate, mucronate, incised 
or quite entire. lnfloiescence centrifugal. llowers terminal on main axis and branches; 
peduncle 5—30 mm. Sepals 5, subequal in length, unequal in breadth, membranous, 
greenish, with branched nerves, elliptic-oblorg or one or the other obovate-oblong, 
