EPIME’DIUM MACRAN’THUM. 
LARGE-FLOWERED EPIMEDIUM. 
EXOGENZ, oR * DICOTYLEDONE. 
Natural division 
to which 
‘his Plant belongs. 
THALAMIFLORE, ry i | Artificial divisions. . 
OF to which 
DECANDOLLE. ge Plant belongs. 
GENUS. Epiwepium. LINnNevs. 2 aa dias partes opposite ee qua- 
tuor exteriores sepaline sidecshci tia discolores, quatuor intermedi petaloidee 
plane, vel concave, quatuor interne petaloidex intermediis concolores, cuculli- 
formes calearate. Stamrna quatuor a a teksts petalo interiorum sita. Ova- 
RIUM unicum, unilaterale. Capsuxa siliquiformis, polysperma. Herr peren- 
nes humiles basi ramosz, foliis eo eee folioli is serrato- arses, paniculis 
laxis gracilibus foliis brevioribus yel vix us. 
SPECIES. Epimepium mac lle. Morren et Decaisne. Fottts triter- 
natis, foliolis cordato-ovatis, petiolis pilosis, racemis multifloris, sepalis linear- 
ibus obtusis, penite* ovato- = ceolatis, exterioribus quam interiorum calcara 
duplo brevioribus. Lrwpzey: Botanical Register, p. 1906. 
TETRANDRIA. 
MONOGYNIA, 
OF LINNEUS. 
CHARACTER OF THE ace Epimepium. Parts of the Perigone 
opposite, distichous, four outer ones (or calyx) sepaloid, of a different 
colour from the inner ones, four intermediate ones (petals or outer pe- 
tals) petaloid, flat or concave, four innermost (inner petals or nectaries) 
hood-shaped tapering into a spur, nearly of the samie colour as the 
intermediate. STAMENS four, placed at the base of the inner petals, 
Ovary one, unilateral. CapsuLe siliqua-shaped, with several seeds. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, EPIMEDIUM MACRANTHUM. STEMS 
branched at the base, about nine inches to near a foot high, swollen 
and reddish at each branching or at the insertion of the leaves, with 
long reddish spreading hairs: Leaves rice or usually three times 
ternate, the leaflets borne on long spreading footstalks, which, as well 
as the main stalk, are swollen at each insertion, and hairy like the stem ; 
the main stalk has a gland above the lower pair of branch stalks. 
Each leaflet is about an inch long, heart-shaped, acuminate, sharply 
toothed,the teeth terminated in a seta, thin, of a light green, quite 
smooth on the upper sufface and slightly hairy underneath, the lateral 
one very oblique at the base. Lowers in terminal panicles, of which 
the branches are spreading, with few hairs. Pepiceis about half 
an inch long, one-flowered, thickened under the flower, nearly smooth, 
REFERENCE TO THE be alpast be 
I, Hood-shaped inner petal or nectary. 2, Anther. 3, The same after it has burst and discharged 
the pollen. 4, Section of the Ovary. 
