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PJEONIA albiflora. .. fragrans. 
Double sweet-scented Chinese Peony. 
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POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA; (PENTAGYNIA ?) 
Nat. ovd. RANUNCULACEE. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 127. Div. HT. Ra- 
nuneulacer spurie, Nempé antheris introrsis donate. 
PZEONIA. Supra vol. 5. fol. 379. 
P. albifcrs, herbacea, capsulis glabris, recurvatis, foliis biternatim sectis, 
segmentis glabris nitidis tripartitis, lobis ovato-lanceolatis. Decand. syst. 
nai. 1, 392. 
Peoria albiflora, Synonyma supra vol. 1. fol. 42. videnda. 
(6) fragrans. Anderson in Linn. trans, 12. 260. 
Double sweet-scented chinese Pony. Sabine in hort. trans. 2. 278; cum 
tab. pict. 
For the general account of this species we shall refer our 
readers to the first volume of the present publication, where 
Pronia albiflora is the subject of the forty-second article. 
We are obliged to Mr. Sabine for a sample, and the fol- 
lowing account of the variety before us. . 
“ Of the double varieties of Paonta albiflora, this was 
the first introduced into this country; it has been cultivated 
in the Botanic Garden at Kew from 1805, but did not be- 
come general in the London nurseries for some years after- 
wards, and is still the least common of any." 
“ Another double Pzeony, similar to this in colour, was 
imported from China in 1810 by Sir Abraham Hume. That 
is a plant altogether of a more robust habit and with leaves 
more strongly wrinkled than.in the one before us. The 
present however possesses a very pleasing fragrance, remind- 
ing us of the Rose, and is so far superior to its rival.” 
“ A single variety has been already figured in the Bo- 
tanical Register, and notwithstanding the apparent ob- 
jection to the specific name, from the flower of some of the 
varieties differing in colour from their prototype sample, I 
have not changed it; not only in regard to its priority, but 
also in deference to the authority of the late Mr. George 
Anderson, in whose elaborate Monograph of the genus, 
published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, the 
original name has been retained. M. De Candolle has also 
