| + | Kirengeshoma (Japanese words meaning yellow Anemonopsis macrophylla). Saxifragaceae. One perennial yellow-flowered herb from Japan, K. palmata, Yatabe, which has lately received attention in England where it has proved hardy and appears to be adapted to the shady border or rock-garden; prop. by division. The plant grows at an elevation of over 5,000 ft. in Japan, on Mt. Ishizuchi. Two to 4 ft., upright, the sts. slender and glabrous: lvs. large and papery, all the lower ones petioled. round-cordate and palmately 7-10-lobed, hairy on both surfaces, the lobes acute and coarsely toothed: fls. overtopping the lvs., on usually 3-fld. peduncles, nodding; corolla bell-shaped, to 1 ¾ in.long, the 5 petals oblong-lanceolate and recurved above the middle: fr. a loculicidally dehiscing caps. B.M. 7944. Gn. 64, p. 246; 74, p. 573. G. 27:421 R.H. 1908, p. 153. L. H. B. |