Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 261 



Introduced from China in 1805 by Sir Joseph Banks. This 

 variety is conspicuous in its upright slender stalks, leaves more 

 pale, and narrower, than those of the other two double ones, sca- 

 brous, and obsoletcly serrated on the margin. It dowers the latter 

 end of June, the latest of all the Pieonies, of a pale rose-colour, 

 giving out an agreeable scent similar to that of the rose. The cen- 

 tral petals are longer than the others, and erect. 



These varieties are hinted at by Loureiro in his Flora Cochiu' 

 chhiensis. He states that the Paeony is found both wild and cul- 

 tivated over all the Chinese empire, chiefly in the northern pro- 

 vinces ; and concludes, "Sunt aliae multae varietates (fortasse 

 species) quas non vidi." We may look for an increase to our ac- 

 quisitions from that quarter. 



3. PiEONIA ANOMALA. 



p. caule unifloro, foliolis multipartitis, laciniis lanceolatis ger- 



niinibusque glabris, flore nutante. 

 P. anomala. Li?in. Mantiss.24-7. Retz. Obs. ui. p. 36. Murray 



in Act. Soc. Gott. v. vii. p. 90. Willd. Sp. PI. v. ii. p. 1222. 



Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. iii. p. 316. Bot. Rep. 514. Bot. Mag. 



1754. 



P. fructibus glabris patentibus. Gmelin Sib. iv. p. 184. t. 72. 



P. laciniata. Pall. Ross. v. ii. p. 93. t. 85. sub P. sibirica. 



Planla tota glabra. Radicis tubera fusiformia, magna, subsessilia. Cat/Its bi- tripedalis, 

 uniflonis, angiilato-cylindraceus, nibicundus. Folia biternata seu teniata, pinnatifida, 

 hinc dissecta laciniis angustis acutis, decurrentia ; subtus nitentia, venis prominentibus, 

 BractecB foliaceae, corollam .subseiiuantes, calyci connexae. Calyni Joliola orbicu- 

 lata, acuminata, nonnunqiiam bifida, apice rubentia. Corolla nutantis petala 6 — 8, 

 inEetjualia, apice erosa, emaiginata, seu bifida, punicea. Geriniua plerumque 5, in 

 Kteilam oispnsita, glabra, nitentia, aequalia, dcpressa, demum patentia, vix recurvata. 

 Stigmata plana, eiectiuscula, lunata, rubra. Calli fungosi, difformes, coronam circum 

 basin germinum formant, qua nota optime species distinguitur. Semina nigra, ovata, 

 laevia, splendentia. Floret ad finem Maii. 



This 



