. PEATE .CCCLXXIIE 
PHONIA SUFFRUTICOSA. 
Shrubby Peony. 
“a m  CHASS XTi. ORDER Y. 
: ; POL YANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Many Chives. Five Pointals. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Cuuxs spy. Petala 6. cau 0. Cap- | Cup 5-leaved. Petals §* Pointal none. Cap- 
sulz polyspe 4 sules many-seeded. 
‘Pxowra officinalis. Thunb. Fi. Ji 230.—Loureir. Fl. Cochin. 1. 343. 
* ‘Dalitinac’: * Suffiutex -pedalis et ultra, ramosus. Rami erectiusculi, cortice subfusco ; ramulis 
erectis levibus, apicem versus viridibus, pauloque pubescentibus. Folia alterna, bipinnata, pe- 
dalia et ultra, horizontalia; superiora adscendentia ; petiolis amplexicaulibus, canaliculatis, villis 
- -perpaucis seepe instructis, canalicula petioloram semper letissime rosea : pinne 2—4, petiolate ; 
 -pinnu , sessiles, infimz opposite, tertia terminalis ; omnes basi oblique cuneate, su- 
> irregulariter inciso-dentatze ; supra virides, venose, nudz, subtus glaucze, nervose, villosz. 
Flores specie aac ut in affinibus, sed in nostris exemplaribus pleni, rosei. Capsule sericeo- 
pubescentes. a - : oe 
Tue Pronia wih otcles is Sakis the most slay and desirable species, in this short but mag- 
‘ nificent genus of ‘Plants. To the s iking peculiarity of a shrubby stem, it unites the advantages of 
| ce = Ses and a facility of culture which ensures an annual 
The sirall Peery" was introduced into > Beitain in ae year 1794, fan China ; wtiere, as well as 
in Japan, many varieties of it are said to be c il 2 almost - every gardea. We conceive it to be 
. ioe. extremely distinct as a species, from the P, officinalis of all authors except Thunberg and Loureiro : 
eS scp epet a has not enumerated it in his edition of Species Plantarum. Although intro- 
. glass case ; is propagated by slipping the 
_ All the plants hitherto received from China have double flowers ; and among 
© are two vitictics } ‘Tie tos.one liens 
id 
till aig colour, Flo wi 
4 SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. - 
Paoxtsyf foliolis subtus ax pink et villosis, cap- | Pzxony, with leaflets elnartes and villose be- 
as. | sericeis, caule suffruticoso. neath, capsules silky, and shrubby stem. 
a it is still rare ; and must be treated as avery hardy green-house plant: indeed it _ 
figured, from the Clapham collection ; and another 
