Mr. Anderson's Monograph of the Genus Paonia. 287 



froiii (lie natural habitats, should very much reduce the number 

 of synonyms ot" modern Avriters which have been hitherto applied 

 to this species, and that by this operation the native places of 

 growth of those new species described by us from cultivated 

 plants only, should be discovered. One reference of M. De Can- 

 dollc, viz. that to ^^ Saku Jaku, Kajvpf. Amcen. v. p. 862," I must 

 consider as very doubtful: the result of every inquiry I have 

 made is, that only P. Moutan and P. albiflora, with all their va- 

 rieties, are cultivated in China and Japan ; the Botan of Kaempfer 

 is the first of these species, and I believe the Saku Jaku is a va- 

 riety of the latter with single red flowers, and that the two double 

 varieties of the same, mentioned by Koempfer, are our F. albiflora 

 IVIiitleji and P. albiflora fra grans. 



P. carallina is now so well known that no doubts can exist 

 about it, or the synonyms referable to it. M. De Candolle has 

 confirmed our belief, that P. claiirica is the P. triternata of Pal- 

 las and Georgi : and P. hnmilis is so well settled by the authority 

 and accuracy of Retz, that no diflnculty can exist relating to it. 



The synonyms which we have applied to our P. decoi-a, are all 

 referred by M. De Candolle to his P. lobata; and I am inclined 

 to think tlioy are the same, though from the circumstance of his 

 plant being quite smooth in the leaves, and ours being hairy un- 

 derneath, they must, if brought together as a species, remain as 

 distinct varieties : in all other points, except this one, they agree. 

 As the P. lobata is cultivated in France, and as Mr. MacLeay 

 has got a plant of it from Paris in his garden, the question will 

 be probably settled in the next summer. 



^Vith our P. arietina M. De Candolle seems to be quite unac- 

 quainted ; the synonyms of Bauhin and Morison, applied by us 

 to P. arietina ct. Andersonii, are referred with a mark of doubt to 

 his P. percgrina; whilst those of Clusius and Bauhin, which we 



have 



