20 Historu of Prhmila 



13. Large soft pink flowered variety, raised by Messrs Veitcb. (35) 



14. Calyx of the same. (35) 



15. Large pure white fimbriated variety, raised by Messrs Veitch. (33) 



16. Calyx of this variety showing tendency to fimbriation. (33) 



17. Kose-pink variety with crimson eye, fimbriated, Messrs Veitch. (29) 



18. Calyx of this variety. (29) 



19. Toothed white variety with conspicuous yellow eye, Herr Areuds. (20) 



20. Side view of the same flower showing the conspicuously lobed calyx. (20) 



21. Double pink variety, hose-in-hose type, raised by Messrs Vilmoriu, Paris, di'awn 



from a plant sent by Herr Arends. (24) 



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22. Purple variety with conspicuous yellow eye, Herr Areuds. (21) 



23. Side view of the same flower. (21) 



24. Calj'x showing its hemispherical shape with unconspicuous teeth. (21) 



25. Large-flowered deep purple variety with reddish eye, Messrs Veitch. (30) 



26. Fimbriated calyx of the same. (30) 



27. Deep rose-pink flowered variety with red eye, showing splitting of the corolla at the 



sutures between the corolla segments represented by colourless lines, cf. fig. 29, 

 Herr Arends. (10). 



28. Calyx of this variety with acuminate segments. (10) 



29. Flower enlarged to show the splitting of the raised sutures between the corolla 



segments producing the commencement of a form of "reversed " doubling, 

 cf. fig. 27. (9) 



30. Very large pale pink fimbriated variety, raised by Messrs Veitch. (2G) 



31. Calyx of the same. (26) 



32. Violet-pink variety with large crimson eye, Messrs Veitch. (28) 



33. Calyx of the same. (28) 



34. Deep rose-flowered variety with crimson eye, Herr Arends. (7) 



35. Crimson variety with yellow eye, Herr Arends. (22). 



36. Calyx of the same. (22) 



37. "Chenies excelsior" (see Gard.. Citron. April 29, 1911, p. 268), raised by Mr Dickson. 



(39) 



38. Calyx of the same. (39) 



Specimens of all these and other varieties are preserved in the Herbarium of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, and the numbers in brackets at the end of each description 

 refer to the numbers in the Herbarium. 



