; Tan. S1LT3; 
PAEONIA MLOKOSEWITSCHII. 
Caucasus. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe PAEONIBAE. 
PaxoniA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 10. 
Paeonia Mlokosewitschii, Lomakin in Trud. Tifl. Bot. Sad. (Act. Hort. Bot. 
Tif.) ii. (1897), p. 282; affinis P. Wittmannianae, Stev., foliolis supra 
glaucescentibus subtus glaucis breviter pubescentibus, floribus apertis, 
carpellis albo-tomentosis distincta. 
Herba perennis, caule glabro. Folia biternata; foliola late oblonga vel 
subelliptica, lateralia obliqua, apice brevissime acutata vel acuminata, basi 
obtusa, 8-10 cm. longa, 4-6 cm. lata, supra glaberrima glaucescentia, subtus 
glauca et breviter pubescentia, margine nervisque rubris; petiolus et 
petioluli glabri. Flores aperti, circiter 12 em. diametro, pedicello glabro 
rubescente 10 cm. longo. Sepala inaequalia, alterum oblongo-lanceolatum, 
acutum, supra basin constrictum, alterum suborbiculare, basi breviter 
contractum, obtusissimum, utrumque glabrum.  /etala circiter 8, 
rotundata, concava, flava. Stamina numerosissima; filamenta antheris 
subduplo longiora. Carpella 3, oblonga, albo-tomentosa; stigmata 
subsessilia, purpurea. 
This is one of a group of yellow-flowered Paeonies from 
the Caucasus, the others being P. Wittmanniana, Stev., 
which was figured on Tab. 6645, and P. macrophylla, 
Lomakin. All three are very closely allied, and their 
discrimination in the dry state is difficult, if not, indeed, 
sometimes impossible. Alboff in his Prodromus Florae 
Colchicae (in Act. Hort. Bot. Tifl. vol. i. p. 14) went even 
so far as to treat P. Wittmanniana and P. macrophylla as 
forms of P. corallina, Retz., and he would no doubt have 
dealt with P. Mlokosewitschii in the same way. As, how- 
ever, no experiments have been made to test the constancy 
‘of the characters which have been relied upon in dis- 
criminating between those forms, and as they appear readily 
distinguishable when seen in the living state it is certainly 
more expedient to treat them at present as distinct species. 
P. Mlokosewitschii was discovered by Mlokosewitsch near 
Lagodekhi in the eastern part of the Central Caucasus, 
whilst typical P. Wittmanniana is a native of Adsharia in 
the basin of the Tshorok River, south of Batum. Lomakin 
(in Act. Hort. Bot, Tifl. vol. ii. p, 283) described, however, 
January, 1928, 
