146 Mr. Sabine on the Generic and Specific Characters 



Chrysanthemum Indicum. Hortus Kew. edit. 2. vol. v. p. 95. 



Botanical Register, 4. — 455. — 6l6. 

 Chinese Chrysanthemum. Sabine in Trans. Hortic. Soc. vol. iv. 



p. 326. — vol. V. p. 149. — in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 561. 

 Habitat incultum in Japonia {Kampfer, Loureiro) ; cultum (mul- 



tis varietatibus) in hortis Sinarum atque Japoniae. 



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 



