TAB. 8742. 
PAEONIA PEREGRINA. 
South-eastern Europe and North-western Asia Minor. 
RANUNCULACEAE. Tribe PAEONIEAE. 
Paronta, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 60. 
Paeconia peregrina, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. viii. n.3; Fritsch in Verh. Zool.- 
Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. xlix. p. 240; nec Desf., nee DC.; affinis P. officinali, 
Linn., sed foliis firmioribus, eorum lobis apice inciso-dentatis, fiorum colore 
pe rubro et carpellis maturescentibus eximie villoso - tomentosis 
istincta. 
Herba perennis, caule glabro. Folia inferiora biternata, divisionibus longe 
petiolulatis, segmentis lateralibus sessilibus vel subsessilibus, intermediis 
longiuscule petiolulatis, lobis magis minusve oblanceolatis vel oblongis vel 
(intermediis) cuneato-obovatis lobulatis lobulis grosse vel inciso-dentatis, 
dentibus acutis vel stbacuminatis, superiora (caulina) quoad divisiones 
magis minusve redacta, summa calyci ipso adpressa; omnia glabra, 
lucidula, subtus pallida, rarissime pilis nonnullis rigidulis in pagina 
inferiore; segmenta intermedia petiolulo dempto 6-12 cm. longa; lobi 
laterales 1-8 cm. lati. Flores ob petala valde concava aperto-cupulares, 
6-10 cm. diametro, pulcherrime saturate rubri. Sepala 4, valde concava, 
oblonga vel late elliptica, glabra, 2°5-4 cm. longa. Petala 7-11, late 
obovata vel elliptica, superne leviter crenulata. Staminwm filamenta 
rubra, superne plerumque pallescentia ; antherae aureae, ad 5 mm. longae. 
Carpella plerumque 8 vel rarius 4, ovoidea, densissime albido-villoso- 
tomentosa; stigmata a latere compressa, recurva, rubra. Folliculi maturi 
stellatim patentes, oblongi, apice paulo recurvi, ad 5 cm. longi, villo denso 
sordide albido vel flavescente longiusculo obtecti. Semina elliptico- 
globosa, circiter 7 mm. longa, atra, nitida.—P. lobata, DC. Syst. vol. i. 
p. 391, pro synonymis plurimis et statione Byzantina ; Sweet, Flow. Gard. 
vol. i. t. 70; nec Desf., nec DC. Prodr. P. decora, Anders: in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. vol. xii. p. 273; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 66; Boiss. Fl. Or. vol. i. p. 985 
Huth, Mon. Paeon. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xiv. p. 269; Baker in Gard. 
Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. p. 10; Lynch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol, xii. p. 439; 
Petrov., Fl. Nish, p. 47; Velenovsky, Fl. Bulg. p. 16; Suppl. i. p. 11. 
P. romanica, Brandza in An. Acad. Roman. ser. ii. vol. ii. p. 587, t. 2; 
Prodr. Fl. Roman. p. 529; Greceseu, Consp. Fl. Roman. p. 43.—O. Stapr. 
The fine Paeony here figured is met with fairly generally 
jn the Balkan Peninsula from Serbia and Macedonia to 
Roumania, and our illustration has been prepared from 
a plant raised from seed sent to Kew from the Geneva 
Botanic Garden under the name P. romanica. But the 
species also extends beyond the Hellespont; it has been 
Jan.—Manrca, 1918. 
