146 Mr. Sapine on the Generic and Specific Characters 
Chrysanthemum Indicum. Hortus Kew. edit. 2. vol. v. p. 95. 
Botanical Register, 4.—455.—616. 
Chinese Chrysanthemum. Sabine in Trans. Hortic. Soc. vol. iv. 
p. 326.—vol. v. p. 149.—4n Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 561. 
Habitat incultum in Japonia (Kempfer, Loureiro); cultum (mul- 
tis varietatibus) in hortis Sinarum atque Japoniæ. 
The branches are usually few, robust, and grow somewhat dif- 
fusely ; the foliage is dark. The leaves are large, firm, and 
rather obtusely toothed, with distant denticulations, the 
uppermost leaves toothed like the rest. The ray of the 
flowers is equal to or larger than the diameter of the disc, 
and is subject to vary with the greatest diversity of colours. 
The varieties of the Chrysanthemum Sinense are most nume- 
rous in the gardens of the Chinese, and cultivated with the 
greatest art and attention. They have lately become objects of 
much attraction to the British gardener. The first of these was 
introduced from France in 1790, having been brought from 
China to Marseilles in 1789. Between 1798 and 1808, eight new 
varieties had been imported from China, one by Mr. Evans 
of Stepney, the other seven by Sir Abraham Hume. To these 
nine Chinese varieties, a tenth raised in England was added. 
These remained without further accession till 1816: between - 
that year and the present the number has been increased by the 
addition of seventeen new ones, one introduced by Mr. Palmer 
of Bromley, two by Mr. Brookes of Ball’s Pond, and twelve by 
the Horticultural Society; of the remaining two, the origin of 
one cannot be traced, and the other was produced in England 
from one of the older varieties. 
I am aware that an objection may be urged to the specific 
name I have applied to these plants, on the ground of their 
being natives of Japan, and only known in China in the gardens. 
But 
