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(ENOTHERA fruticosa, var. indica. 
. Indian Genothera. 
SSaaEIEEeeeenael 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRACEE. 
GNOTHERA. Supra vol. 2, fol. 147. 
(CE. fruticosa. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 456. 
Among the numerous seeds obtained from India by the 
East India Company, have been received occasionally collec- 
tions of old European and American annuals and perennials, 
originally sent out to India from this country. If it seldom 
happens that such collections produce anything of interest, 
we nevertheless occasionally find varieties of well-known 
plants, whose novelty and beauty claim attention. 
In this manner was secured the great blue large-flowered 
Greek Valerian, whose blossoms are twice as large as those 
of the old shop-variety ; and the plant now figured has been 
procured in a similar way. 
On several occasions, and from different parts of India, 
has been received an CEnothera, with perennial roots, dwarf 
stems, rather dull and hairy leaves, and very handsome bright 
yellow flowers, which approaches very near to the Z. fruti- 
cosa of the United States, but is nevertheless distinct from all 
the varieties of that plant now cultivated. Its leaves are less 
shining than in that species, the corymbs of flowers are never 
elevated above the leaves on a long stalk, and the herbage 
forms a compact little bush about a foot and a half high. 
Sometimes its leaves are quite entire, occasionally they are 
toothed in a repand manner ; in outline they vary cai ovate 
to ovate-lanceolate. 
This variety is not identical with, nor indeed very similar 
February, 1841. E 
