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probable nde they soon died. Secondly in 1877 they were 
obtained by the then Deputy Commissioner of Lakhimpur and 
rown successfully at Shillong by Gustav Mann. Lastly in 
1907 Mr. Noel Williamson, Assistant Political Officer at Sadiya, 
at my instance, was so good as to get a new consignment. Part 
of it I tried to cultivate in my own garden in Calcutta, but 
without success ; and part of it I made over to Captain A. T. 
Gage for cultivation in the Lloyd Botanic Garden at Darjeeling. 
The curators of that garden, Messrs. Cave and Kennedy, have 
been very successful with the plant, and the opposite figures 
were drawn partly from spirit material preserved by them for 
me and partly by Miss G. Morrison from fresh specimens. 
e material upon which my study is based has been :— 
(1) Wallich’s Gites of the Bes in the Transactions 
of cal and Physical Society of Calcutta, viii, 
" 1836, oo $591. 
‘ (2) Griffith's notes, Paste in Posthumous Papers—Pri- 
vate Journals, 1847, p. 37, and Notule, p. 733, 
together with the drawing i in his Icones Plantarum 
ate ii. 
(3) Huth’s remarks in Engler’s Botanische Jahrbiicher, 
xvi, 1893, p. 278, giving the result of a re-exam- 
ination of Griffith’s material. 
(4) Brihl’s figure in the Minis of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Caleutia, v, 1896, pt. 2, p. 89, plate 114, 
based on dried specimens from Mann’s garden, 
and also a dried specimen somehow obtained by 
Terkins in 1845. 
(5) The new material from Darjeeling. 
The first thing to remark is that Huth has separated off a 
variety Griffithit, on the ground that Griffith’s plant had broad 
thin Anat ant thereby differs from the typical piant with thick 
narrow petals 
The e figure below (fig. 9) is from Griffith’s drawing. I am 
Fic. 9.—FlJower seen from below, according to Griffith. 
not inclined to admit the validity of this asihdeak for I find in 
the plants raised at Darjeeling variability enough to indicate 
that the petals may at times broaden iis. their usual con- 
dition into the state that Griffith observed. And we know that 
such variability is quite usual in the Ranunculacee. 
