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OENOTHERA fruticosa, var. indica. 

 Indian CEnothera. 



OCTANDRIA MONOQYNIA. 

 Nat. Ol'd. ONAGRACEiE. 



(ENOTHERA. Supra vol. 2,fol. 147. 



(E. fruticoea. Linn. sp. pi. 1. 456. 



Among the numerous seeds obtained from India by the 

 East India Company, have been received occasionally collec- 

 tions of old European and American annuals and perennials, 

 originally sent out to India from this country. If it seldom 

 happens that such collections produce anything of interest, 

 we nevertheless occasionally find varieties of well-known 

 plants, whose novelty and beauty claim attention. 



In this manner was secured the great blue large-flowered 

 Greek Valerian, whose blossoms are twice as large as those 

 of the old shop- variety ; and the plant now figured has been 

 procured in a similar way. 



On several occasions, and from different parts of India, 

 has been received an CEnothera, with perennial roots, dwarf 

 stems, rather dull and hairy leaves, and very handsome bright 

 yellow flowers, which approaches very near to the CE. fruti- 

 cosa of the United States, but is nevertheless distinct from all 

 the varieties of that plant now cultivated. Its leaves are less 

 shining than in that species, the corymbs of flowers are never 

 elevated above the leaves on a long stalk, and the herbage 

 forms a compact little bush about a foot and a half high. 

 Sometimes its leaves are quite entire, occasionally they are 

 toothed in a repand manner ; in outline they vary from ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate. 



This variety is not identical with, nor indeed very similar 

 February, 1841. e 



