VARIOUS SPECIES OF THE PEONY 



from Constantinople. Flowers rather small, dark 

 red, tinted magenta. Dwarf habit, very bushy. 

 Varieties : 



Alba (white), satiny white, tinted pink. 

 Elatior (taller), large magenta coloured flowers. 

 Pallasii (Pallass's — originally Byzantina), deep 

 crimson flowers. 



9. Delavayi (Dclavay's). China. 



Woody stems, small flowers, red, tinted magenta. 

 Variety : 



Angustiloba (narrow-leaved), finely divided 

 leaves. 



10. Emodi (Mount Emodus — not found in modern 



gazetteers). 



This is the only peony native to India. It grows 

 in the temperate zone in the Himalayan Moun- 

 tains from Kumaon to Kashmir. Flowers single, 

 four to six inches across, pure white with promi- 

 nent yellow stamens. One of the most beautiful 

 of the single flowers. The plant has a slender 

 growth and a distinctive habit. Although more 

 tender than any other herbaceous variety, it is 

 one of the wild varieties worth growing in the 

 garden. Index Kewensis considers this a formi 

 of P. anomala. Other authorities state that it is 

 closely allied to P. albiflora, with which (and 

 Veitchii) it shares the unusual characteristic of 

 bearing more than one flower on a stem. Of the 

 one to five flowers which grow on a stem rarely 

 more than two are in bloom at the same time. 



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