DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 81 
Var. y. PUSILLA, P. B.; scapes usually very short, 2—6 (--10) em. long, usually erect ; leaflets 
hairy or sub-glabrous, lateral ones trilobed, terminal trisect or subtrifoliate, 5—8 mm. 
across, terminal segment of the second order sessile or petiolate. Sikkim: Sey-cho-la, W. 
of Jongri; Kapur below Kinchinjanga; Pandim-chu 15,000” (King’s collectors /). 
Prats 1074. Anemone rupestris, Wall. 1, var. lobata; 2, var. pusilla; 5, basal leaves of various specimens of A. 
rupestris, chiefly of var, pusilla; 6, sepal of var. pusilla; 7, of var, lobata; 11, stamen of var. lobata; 12, of 
var. pusilla; 16, fertilised, carpel. 
ANEMONE DEMISSA, H. f. et T. 
Rhizome monopodial. Flower-bearing shoots decumbent or ascending or more rarely 
erect, villose. Basal leaves broadly ovate in outline, trisect or biternately divided with the 
primary segments more or less distinctly petiolulate; divisions cleft and crenate or serrate, 
often over-lapping; blade and petiole silky with long hairs or densely villous, rarely with 
scanty indumentum. Flowers umbellate, more rarely solitary. Involucral leaves 3, whorled, 
sessile, tripartite and incised. Sepals 5, 5—18 mm. long, white, or pale blue, or white inside 
and blue outside. Filaments broad-linear to broadly oblanceolate. Ovaries obovate, narrow- 
elliptic or subovate, compressed, glabrous. Achene flat, broad-elliptie, subasymmetrie, 5—6 
mm. long, style subadpressed. 
Flowers in July and August. 
Distribution :—Eastern Himalaya, East Tibet, Yunnan. 
Var. а. UMBELLATA Р. B.; scapes erect or more commonly ascending, 12—40 cm. high; 
divisions of leaf-segments more or less over-lapping, crenate-serrate; blade silky with 
soft subadpressed hairs; petioles villose or sericeous; flowers umbellate, pedicels slender, 
2—3 em. long, elongating, longer than involucral leaves; sepals obovate-oblong, 8—1 
mm. long; ovaries obovate or oblong; style straight, about half as long as ovary or 
longer. Sikkim: Thaling 13,000’, Singalila range (K.s ا اا‎ ) Bhuten-Tibetan 
Frontier at La-ri-tin; Chumbi at Sy-um-Chün-Chen; Phari (K.’s colkctors!), Tachienlu 
(Pratt, n. 6011). 
Var. 8. MACRANTHA P. В.; scapes decumbent or ascending, about 10 cm. long; leaves as in 
a; flowers usually in pairs; pedicels about as long as involucral leaves; sepals broad, 
elliptic 15—2 сш, long; ovaries ovate, style much shorter, tapering; stigma oblique- 
acute, narrow.—Tachienlu region (Pratt n. 745!). 
Var. y. VILLOSISSIMA P. B.; scapes decumbent or ascending, flaccid, 3-20 cm. long; leaves 
eud-ovate to subreniform in outline, 1—5 to 3 om. across, like the petioles and scapes 
very villose; leaflets divided into overlapping lobes and crenatures; flowers sometimes 
solitary, usually in few-flowered umbels; flower-bearing pedicels often not longer than 
. involucral leaves, finally elongating; sepals 4—6 mm. long, obovate, mostly white on 
both sides, sometimes yellowish-blue outside; ovaries obovoid or subcylindric, style 
usually short and thick, stigma capitate, subterminal.—Sikkim: near Jougri 13,000’, on 
the Zey-lap-lé ; Chumbi: near Le-rong. (King’s collectors !). 
Var. 8. cowwEcrENs Р. B.; scapes suberect, flaccid, like the petioles and petiolules villose, 
10—15 em. long; division of leaves slightly over-lapping, crenate-serrate, blade rather 
scantily hairy; flowers solitary; pedicels slender, about 9-3 times the involueral 
_ leaves; sepals obovate, 4—6 mm. long; ovaries elliptic-oblong ; style short.—Sikkim : near 
Rang-chen 15,000” (King’s collector /). | rt 
Axx. Вот Bor. Garp. Сліс, Vor, V. 
