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[N.8.] 
when new leaves are springing up: all grow wild. The leaf 
of Coptis occidentalis is likened to a Chrysanthemum le af. 
Next regarding the identifications of these fires The 
A figure of the Phonzo Zufu—my 
ees under its corresponding figure, is medicinal. C. anemone- 
jolia-is one of the species reduced by Finet and Gagnepain to 
the condition of being a variety of C. Teeta ; but between the 
figures referred to and the true Mishmi Tita, I observe consider- 
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6.—From the third figure of the hace Zufu. This was iden- 
i occid is but it can 
hardly be that American species : seca instance “a identified 
it with Coptis anemonefolia, but ie go Zufu represents its leaves as 
dull, and those of C. anemonefolia as shining. 
able differences : the middle lobe of the leaf is very different in 
outline and apparently conspicuously so in colour. , therefore, 
am. inclin eto separate them. Finet and Gagnepain again 
unite, as one, C. anemonejolia and C. orientalis. If my figure 
15 aaneally represents GC. : helena then I hesitate to accept 
Finet and Gagnepain’s union. 
Among my figures 15, 16, 17, 18, and A plant figured as 
No. 16 ands rather apart. ‘As I have said, the figure, no. 399, 
called ‘‘ Kikuba oren, C. occidentalis,’’ in yest Yuyo Shoku- 
