DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 83 
From the form of A. polyanthes with compound umbels this is pretty easily distinguished by the 
rarer indumentum, the less regular umbels апі umbellule:, the subcentral ani straight persistent 
style, and the distinctly ribbed seeds, A plant, in nearly every respect like 4A. elongata, but with one- 
sided and recurved persistent style, was gathered by Maingıy in Northern China on the Shan-tung 
range (9,500). 1t is not referred to in Hemsley’s Enumeration. The specimens of Wallich’s Anemone 
curta and Anemone g:raniifolia in the Calcutta Herbarium are umbellu'es of either Ancmone elongata 
or of the compound form of Anemone polyanthes. Anemone polyarthes is completely liked with А. 
narcissiflora by numerous intermediate forms from Turkestan, 'libet, and Northern Sikkim; it must 
therefore be reduced to the rank of a subspecies of A. narcissiflora. 
Рглтк 108. Anemone elongata, Don. 1, вера]; 2, stamens: (a) outer, (b) middle, (c) inner ; 3, pistils : (а) outer, (/) 
innermost ; 4, achenes: (a) and (b) from Khasia, (b) half of pericarp cut away to show the seed; (c) №. №. 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 А, narcissiflora, Fyrenees, 6, a=d, A. 
geraniifolia, Wall. Cat. 4693 in Herb. Cale, (a—c) stamens, (d) pistil; (e) pistil of A. rivularis. 6, A. сита, 
Wall. Cat, 4690 in Herb. Calc., Sylhet, stamens and pistil ; 7, A. rivularis, Wall. Cat. 4692, Nipal. 
ADONIS BREVISTYLA, Franchet, var. TRICHOCARPA, P. B. 
The plant figured on plate 109 belongs to the group of species of which A. cerulca, Max m., A. Daridi, 
Franchet, and A. breristyla, Franchet, are members. The latter two aie known to the writer only frum 
Franchet’s lucid descriptions and the accompanying figures. Our plant differs from A. Daridi by tho 
stem being 40—50 instead of 20—30 ста. long, by the leaves being rather distant, the lower internodes bing 
75—11 om. instead cf 5-7 cm. long, by the vagina of the lowest leaves being 1 em. or less instead of 
2:5—3 cm. long, by the lateral branches being 10—20 cm. instead of about 5 cm. long, by the uppermost 
leaves being considerably smaller than the lower ones, by the petals being apparently smaller (13—15 
instead of 16—92 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 A. breristyla it differs by the 
leaves not being 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. cerulca, Maxim. appears to 
be much less close. The following is a detailed description of our plant. 
A perennial herb, glabrous except the ovaries, 30—50 cm. 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 leavcs may be considered us 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 pinne in 
outline ovate-oblong, below bipinnatisect, lower 10—16 x 4—7 cm., uppermost 2—5 em. 
long; rhachis canaliculate, lower pseudo-petioles 4—9, upper JT cm. long; leaf-segments 
opposite, subopposite, or alternate; lowest primary segments (pinnze) springing from the 
yagina, ovate or subrotund in outline, 5—18 mm. long; the others ovate-lanceolate ; secondary 
ones sessile ovate-oblong and lanceolate in outline; laciniz lanceolate, mucronate, incised 
or quite entire. Inflorescence centrifugal Flowers 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 опе ог the other obovate-oblong, 
