A — P 
Species novas in Gardener's Chronicle, 3. ser, XLVI (1909). 588 
membranacei, 2—3 mm longi. Pedicelli circa 4 cm longi, teretes. Flores 
magni, albi, labelli disco et lobis lateralibus striatis. Sepalum posticum 
lanceolatum, . acutum vel acuminatum, carinatum, circa 3—5 cm longum, 
sepala lateralia oblonge-lanceolata, acuta vel acuminata, carinata, circa 
4 cm longa, basi obliqua, in mentum conicum acuminatum 2 cm longum 
producta, Labellum trilobum, 4 cm longum, lobi laterales rotundati vel 
subtruncati, 1 cm lati; lobus intermedius obovatus, truncatus vel obtuse 
bilobus, crenulatus, 2—2,5 cm latus. Columna lata. 
The plant bears a considerable general resemblance to D. Dearei 
Reichenb, f., and D. parthenium Reichenb. f., the latter a handsome Bor- 
neau species, which has been lost sight of. It is, however quite distinct 
from either. 
CVII. Species novas in Gardener's Chronicle, 3. ser., 
XLVI (1909) descriptas 
compilavit F. Fedde. 
87. Paeonia Veitchii R. Irwin Lynch, l. c., p. 2, fig. 1. 
The plant is so charming and so unlike every other kind, that I 
think it worthy of bearing the name I have ventured to give it. It does 
not, of course, compare with the old garden doubles or even with the 
great singles, but is has attractive features found in no other Paenoy. 
P. Veitchii has been referred to P. anomala, one of the sections in which 
the leaves are narrowly divided orpinnatisect, but if compared with that 
or either of the allied kinds, it is found to differ remarkably in bearing 
several flowers to a stem, in having a light green, brightly-glistening 
leaf surface both above and below, very distinct elevations of the leaf 
between the veins, and a different proportion between certain parts of 
the plant. While the stem of P. anomala — to take this species for 
comparison — may be 2 feet high and bear 9 or 10 leaves, with the 
lowest petiole only one-eighth as long as the stem, P. Veitchii, with a 
Stem 2 feet high, has only six or seven leaves, and the petiole of the 
lowest leaf is one-third or one-fourth, or at least one-sixth as long as 
the stem that bears it. Again, with regard to the leaf, while P. anomala 
may have 22 distinct leaf segments, each !/, inch. across, P. Veitchii has 
15 segments only, and they are !/, inch. across. Comparison with every 
other species of the genus shows equally marked differences. In its 
habit of producing from one to four flowers to a stem, it is distinct from 
all other species except P. albiflora and P. Emodi, neither, of which i 
resembles, The flowers of the genus Paeonia are almost always solitary, 
and I know of one further exception only, that of a specimen, perhaps 
abnormal, of either P. peregrina or an ally, which I saw in the Herbarium 
of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, some years ago. I have not referred 
to flower characters because in Paeonia they are not strong; other 
