Tan. 8161. 
PAEONIA Campessepestt. 
Balearic Islands and Corsiea. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe PAEONTEAE. 
PaxontA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 10. 
Paeonia Cambessedesii, Wilik. Illustr. Fl. Hisp. et Ins. Balear. vol. i. p. 104, 
t. 65a; affinis P. corallinae, Retz, sed foliis subtus pulchre purpurascenti- 
bus et carpellis erectis glabris purpurascentibus differt. 
Perennis, herbacea, circiter 0°5 m. alta, caulibus glabris erectis flexuosis 
simplicibus sulcatis unifloris. Folia ternato-pinnatisecta ; segmenta ovato- 
lanceolata . vel oblonga, acuta, integra, glabra, supra intense viridia, 
subtus purpurascentia, nervis utrinque distinctis supra impressis subtus 
leviter elevatis. Flores rosei, solitarii, erecti, circiter 9 cm. diametro. 
Sepala inaequalia, viridia. Petala 5-10, rosea, late obovata, membranacea, 
marginibus crenulata. Stamina numerosa, filamentis purpureis, antheris 
flavis. Carpella 5-7, erecta, demum divergentia, glabra, purpurea, nitida, 
stigmate recurvato.—P. corallina, var. fructibus glabris, Cambess. Knum. Pl. 
Balear. p. 33; Costa Fl. de Catal. p. 9; Rodrigu Catal. Pl. Men. p. 2 et 100; 
Mares et Vigin. Catal. Rais. Pl. Balear. p. 12.—P. corallina, var. Cambes- 
sedesii, Willk. Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. et Ind. Pl. Vasc. Balear. in Linnaea, 
vol. xl. p. 183; Barcelo, Flora de las Balear. p. 18. 
There are two distinct sections of Paeonia in cultivation, 
both of which are exceedingly ornamental and useful for 
garden purposes. Thé well-known Moutan, or Tree Paeony, 
P. Moutan, Sims, is the only representative of one section, 
whilst the other consists of numerous herbaceous species. 
About twenty-five species are recognised in the genus; 
all are natives of Europe and Asia, except P. Brownii, 
Dougl., a relatively inconspicuous species, which inhabits 
Western North America from San Bernardino, in California, 
to British Columbia. 
P. Cambessedesii is a native of the Balearic Islands and 
Corsica, and we are indebted to Miss Frances Geoghegan, 
of Glasnevin, Dublin, for the introduction of this pretty 
species to cultivation. It was collected by her in the 
Island of Majorca, where it was found in 1896, growing in 
a rocky, almost inaccessible spot on Cape Formentor. Our 
drawing was made from an offset of Miss Geoghegan’s 
original plant, which flowered in April of the present year, — 
OctoBER, 1907. 
