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 PjEonia pubens. Downy Peony. 



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Cfass and Order. 



POLYANDRIA DlGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. StyliO. Caps, polyspermy. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



PjEOnia pubens ; foliis biternatis ; foliolis lanceolatis subtus 

 mollissime pubescentibus, germinibus albido-tomen- 

 tosis, stigmate suborbiculato, caule petiolis peduncu- 

 lisque hirsutis. 



PjEonia lobata. Desfont. Cat. Hort. Paris ? vix De 

 Candollii. 



This plant was received from the Royal garden at Paris 

 by our friend Alexander Mac Leay, Esq. under the name 

 of PiEONiA lobata, and may therefore be the species so called 

 by M. Desfontaines, in his catalogue of the garden. It 

 can however hardly be the lobata described by M. De Can- 

 dolle, in his Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale, as he de- 

 scribes his plant to be in every part smooth, and the division 

 of the leaves as totally different. In our specimen the leaflets 

 were lanceolate, very much pointed, smooth above, but 

 very villous underneath ; the stem, the petioles, and pedun- 

 cles hairy ; germens 2, covered with a white tomentum, 

 and crowned with a round, cap-like, deep-purple stigma ; 

 Jilaments of a deep crimson colour : anthers oblong. 



It flowered in Mr. Mac Leay's garden in May last ; and 

 also in that of the Horticultural Society. Mr. Sabine, who 

 has probably the largest collection of Peonys extant, con- 

 siders it as entirely different from any species described in 

 the highly valuable monograph on this genus by the late 

 George Anderson, Esq. published in the twelfth volume of 

 the transactions of the Linnean Society ; a work that we 



regret 



