stated are nearly similar to each other; the difference 

 between them principally consists in the ground colour of 

 the petals, which in this is of a delicate purplish pink. 

 The blossoms are large, very double, with a great resem- 

 blance in character and appearance to those of Banksii, 

 except that they are less, more compact, and that they 

 are without the central elongated petals which sometimes 

 in that variety appear to rise from amongst the germens. 

 I think, however, some disposition towards this is observ- 

 able in the specimens I have examined of the other variet5^ 

 The petals in both are also generally smaller, and more 

 abundant than in the Banksii ; they also have a rich purple 

 rayed spot at the base of every petal : these spots are 

 exactly similar to those in the flower of Papaveracea, 

 except that they are smaller. From the fulness of the 

 blossom, these spots are not so strikingly observable as 

 in the Papaveracea. In the variety now under notice the 

 germens are numerous, and are at first covered with a 

 purple membrane, that subsequently bursts." 



To this we have to add, that Mr. Sabine's expectations 

 of the flowers improving in beauty have been realised ; and 

 that this deserves to rank among the finest of the varieties 

 of the beautiful species to which it belongs. 



In the Gardens, where it is at present extremely rare, 

 it is called " the double Papaveracea Pseony;" — a name 

 we are obliged to alter, because it is a variety of P. Moutan, 

 and not of P. papaveracea. 



J. L. 



