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long; sepals 1—5 cm. long, white, yellow, or reddish, spreading; stamens distinctly 
shorter than the sepals; filaments glabrous, linear; anthers linear, blunt or subapi- 
culate; achenes laterally compressed, persistent style plumose, 2:5—4 сш, long. 
Flowers from April to September. 
Geographical distribution—Hindu Kush, Kaffiristan, temperate Himalaya, Moupine, 
Yunnan, Assam Hills, Chota Nagpur, (Japan). 
O. Kuntze enumerates and names under the head of CZ. montana, subspecies normalis, thirteen varieties, 
which are mostly characterized by single characters. Now there are specimens which possess at the same 
time incised (var. incisa) and pubescent (var. pubescens) leaves, obtuse (var. obtusiscpala) and yellow (var. 
Jlavida) sepals, with peduncles shorter than the leaves (var. brevi-peduncu/ata) ; and it would not have been 
difficult to define and name a number of other varieties according as the leaves are glabrous, pubescent, 
or subhirsute, as the pedicels are hairy or glabrescent, as the stamons are longer or shorter than the 
pistils, as the style is straight or recurved, as the stigma is canaliculate or no. We should thus have 
performed the remarkable feat of making a single specimen belong to a dozen or more named (!) varieties, 
That would be Systematic Botany with a vengeance! 
The following Indian, Tibetan, and Yunnanese varieties may be distinguished :— 
A. Varieties with abbreviated flower-bearing branchlets; leaves of flowering branchlets crowded ; 
flowers one or several, originating in the axils of scales. 
Var. a. ANEMONIFLORA, (Don pro sp., топ О. Кїтє); leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, 
serrate rarely quite entire, glabrous or nearly so above, hairy or glabrous beneath ; 
flowers appearing with tke leaves usually many on the abbreviated branchlets; pedicels 
longer or shorter than the leaves, glabrous or pubescent ; sepals obovate, rounded or obtuse 
at the tip, 15—3 сш. long, beneath subglabrous except at the pubescent edges; stamens 
usually 80—120. Gilgit (Tauner!); Kashmir (Clarke/); Hazara (Stewart 1); Black 
Mountain (Duthie 7); Simla Gamble !); Garhwal near Massuri (Duthie /); Kumaon, near 
Naini Tal, and on the Kedar Kanta (Royle 1). : 
Var. В. ıncısa, О. Kise; leaflets membranous, lanceolate, acuminate, 1—6 cm. long, incised, 
cuneate, above more or less coarsely hairy; flowers with the ‘leaves, solitary or crowded 
on the shortened branchlets; pedicels usually longer than the leaves, hairy or nearly 
glabrous; sepals oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, 15—25 mm. long, glabrescent on back ; 
stamens 60—90. Garhwal, on the Kedar Kanta 10—11,000* (Duthie!) ; Nipal (Seully 1). 
Var. y. сномвюл, P. B.; leaflets obovate or rhomboid, moro or less deeply trifid, mucronate- | 
Pa serrate, cuneate, above adpressedly hairy, beneath more or less villous; flowers with the 
leaves, crowded on the abbreviated branchlets; pedicels as long as, or longer than, the 
leaves, villous; sepals oblong or obovate, rounded at the tip and mucronulate, rarel y 
subacute, 15—25 mm. long, pubescent or villous beneath; stamens mostly 25—40. Chumbi 
(King’s сей. 1); Sikkim, near Ling-tu (Коув coll.!), Lamtong (King’s coll. 1), Phullut 
(King's cell. 1). : В м. 
Var. 5. praecox, О. Ktze.; leaflets pubescent ог villose; flowers before the leaves; sepals 
= obovate, rounded, 12—20 mm. long, pubescent beneath. Closely related to y. Sikkim: 
on Phullut (King's coll. !). 
Var. e. FASCICULIFLORA, Franchet pro sp.; leaflets leathery, lanceolate, quite entire, glabrous above, 
glabrescent beneath; flowers with the leaves; pedicels 2-3 cm., silky; flowers rather small ; 
sepals obovate-oblong, obtuse, densely sericeous beneath; stamens biseriate,—Y: 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Garp. Caio, Vor. V. 
