with one or two small bracts at their base. Catyx of four oblong 
pointed deciduous sepals of a brownish colour, about two lines long. 
Ovrer PETALS four, about four lines long, ovate, lanceolate, sharp, 
white with more or less of a violet tint. INNER PEeTats four, nearly 
of the same colour, hood-shaped, tapering into a long obtuse spur as 
long again as the outer petals and yellowish at the extremity, two of 
them distinctly inserted below or outside the two others. ANTHERS 
four, nearly sessile at the base of the inner petals with a small appen- 
dage at the top, consisting of two cells opening in valves from the base 
to the top. Ovary unilateral, oblong, smooth, with many ovules 
placed in two rows. : 
Poputar anpD GeograpuicaL Noticr. The genus Epimedium, 
as limited by Morren and Decaisne, in an excellent paper on the sub- 
ject, in the Annales des Sciences oe < 2, soa series, com- 
prehends a small number of t th th 
ern range of the Sane Alps, with more or bags interruption, to = 
Japanese islands. The latter country fi 
able from the size of their flowers and especially of ihe’ inner petals, as 
to induce the authors of the above-mentioned paper to include them in 
a subgenus or section, under the name of Macroceras. The same cir- 
cumstance renders them all highly deserving of cultivation as.orna- 
mental plants in our own gardens as well as in those of the Japanese, 
in which they are said to bear a conspicuous part. 
InTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLturE. The Epimedium ma- > 
cranthum was one of about 160 species of plants, which Dr. Siebold 
brought alive from Japan in hollow pieces of silex filled with clay. It 
first flowered in the garden of the university of Ghent, from whence it was 
introduced into this country, with many other valuable plants of the 
same collection, in 1836. Our drawing was made from a plant which 
was obligingly sent us by the Messrs. Pope of Handsworth in April 
last. Subsequently a well-flowered specimen was sent to us by Mr. 
Atkins, Nurseryman, of Northampton ; who states that the plant must 
be quite hardy, it having been wintered in a cold frame, where the pot 
of soil in which it grew was thoroughly frozen. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
Eprmeptem, from a supposition ae hist was he Epimedium of a 
and Sores a it wertsinty ms 
¥ plan 
5 avi ed mar- 
y gsmell. Macranraum padi flowered. 
SyNonyMEs. 
EPIMeDIUM MACRANTHUM. Morren et Decaisne: Annales des ieee Natu- 
relles, Ser. 11, v. 2, p. 352, t. 13. "Lindley Botanical Register, t. 1906. 
