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whorl of leaves. Sepals 4—5, membranous, ovate or elliptical, with branching nerves, in- 
serted with a rather broad base, obtuse, 6—10 mm. long, 3--2 ав broad, glabrous, Receptacle 
hemispherical, 1--1۰5 mm. dia., glabrous. Stamens about 30, 1—2 the length of the sepals, 
glabrous; filaments complanate-filiform, outer ones 2-2-5 mm., inner ones 3—4 mm. ; anthers 
elliptic, blunt, about 1:2 mm. long, connective very narrow. Pistils 95—30, glabrous, 
inner ones 2, outer about I mm,; ovary ovate, lenticularly compressed, style tapering, 
of innermost pistils nearly as long as the ovary, of outer ones much shorter. Achenes ?— 
Sikkim: Lachen Valley, 8—9,000'; Chumbi: near Pey-gung-la; Bhutan, near Chuka 
6,000’; Mishmi. Flowers in June. 
Pyare 1054. Anemone Grifithii, H. f. and ТЬ; 1, flowering plant; 2, sepal; 3, stamen ; 4, pistil; 5, stigmatic surface. 
ANEMONE FALCONERI, T. Thomson. 
Regel in his Enumeratio Plantarum cis- et transsiliensium describes the fruit of Anemone Falconeri 
thus:—achentis lineari-oblongis, subteretibus, costatis, puberulis, stigmate brevissimo. 
Prof. Janczewski has drawn attention to a peculiarity which is common to all the species that 
go to form his subgenus Hepatica (Н. triloba, Н. transsilvanica, Н. Falconeri); the basal portion of the 
achene forms a kind of pedicel: called hypophyse by Janezewki, which in the ripe fruit is translucent 
and coloured brown, but which in consequence of shrinkage attendant upon desiccation is apt to be 
overlooked. The function of this hypophyse is as yet unknown. It appears to be less distinctly developed in 
A. Falconeri than in the other two species. Ripe achenes of A. Fulconeri have, however, not yet been 
collected in India, and we invite the attention of Indian botanists to this interesting subject. 
Puare 105 В. Anemone Falconeri, T. Thoms. ; 6, flowering plant; 7, sepal; 8, stamen; 9, pistil of 4. Falconeri. 
ANEMONE OBTUSILOBA, Don. 
The forms which group themselves round the typical Anemone obtusiloba are usually associated with 
A. ricularis, A. pennsylvanica, A. antucensis and others, whilst Janczewski in his very interesting Etudes 
morphologiques sur le genre Anemone unites them with A. capensis, А. alchemillefolia, and A. glaucifolia, 
to form his subgenus Pulsatil/oides. There exists, however, the closest possible relationship between 
‘A. obtusiloba and A. pulyanthes, a relationship which appears to have suggested itself already to Prantl," 
and which is indicated by А. obfusiloha having a monopodial (zweiachsiges) rhizome like 4. narcissifloras 
Linn., A. fetrasepsla, Royle, A. elongata, Don, A. gelida, Maxim., A. demissa H. f. et T., and the true 
A. rupestris of Wallich; further by the frequently evinced tendency of A. obtusiloba towards the 
formation of an umbellate inflorescence ; by the achenes of some varieties of this species from Kumaon 
‘and Nipal being very decidedly compressed, so much so that the writer was for some time doubtful 
whether they should not be referred to А. demissa H. f. et T., to which they certainly do not belong; 
. and finally by the ovaries of A. polyanthes sometimes, though seldom, bearing د‎ few stiff hairs, so 
~ that it becomes practically impossible to distinguish the pistils of these forms of A. polyanthes from 
“oe those of the flat-carpelled Nipal variety of A. obtusiluba. The association of А. obtusiloba with A. 
_ glaucifolia and A. capensis appears to me inadmissible. Geographical distribution, of course, counts 
here for nothing; for not only is Ше Yunnanese A. glaucifolia, Franchet, closely allied to the 
South “African A. capensis and A. alchemMlafolia, but what is stil more remarkable, there 
are, ав is pointed out by Franchet in his Plantae Delavayanae, certain points in: common between 
- Franchet’s species and. РаШоп в section Viornanema, a small, but highly interesting group of African 
species of Clematis. Thus limited there appears to exist a sufficiently close relationship between this 
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`* Engler's Botanische Jahrbücher, IX, 1887, page 248. 
