84 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Maych, 1909. 
butsa Zusetsu, represents the same; and the Yuyo Shokubutsa 
Zusetsu says it is medicinal. IL cannot consider it as C. occiden- 
talis at all: the leaves are simply trifoliolate, the leaflets round- 
ish in outline ; but they are not long petiolulate, are not obtuse 
obed, nor obtusely dentate. And if figure 16 does not represent 
C. occidentalis then figures 17 and 18 most certainly do not. 
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—From the fourth figure of the Phonzo wna Franchet con- 
sides it e Goreme the same species as the last fi 
range of the species considered to be C. occidentalis and C. orven- 
talis by Franchet and Huth. I eb aa the figures here in 
order to draw attention to the plan 
Franchet, in the Journal de Belasone, 1897, pp. 227-229, 
says that three of his 5 hae are cultivated in gardens in Japan, 
viz., Coptis anemonejolia, Coptis orientalis, and Coptis brachy- 
petala. He says on the’ ‘authority of Faurie that the first is 
1 abies O. japonica, Makino, is, except in name, alee 
unknown to me. Is it meant to be Coptis occidentalis var. japonica, 
