PLATE CCCCXLVIII. 
PHONIA SUFFRUTICOSA ; Var. flore purpureo. 
Shrubby Peony ; Purple-flowered Variety. 
CLASS XIII. ORDER V. 
POLYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Many Chives. Five Pointals. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARAC TER. 
Caryx 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Stylio. Cap- | Cup 5-leaved. Petals 5. Pointal none. Cap- 
_ Sule polysperme. sules many-seeded. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pzonia caule suffruticoso, tripedali, ramoso : Pzony with a shrubby stem, three feet high, 
folia alternatim bipinnata, pedalia et ultra, and branching: leaves alternately two- 
bifida et trifida, subtus glauca : petiolis lon- winged, a foot or more in length, two- and 
gis, canaliculatis, amplexicaulibus : floribus three-cleft, glaucous beneath ; the petioles 
semi-duplicibus, purpureis, splendentibus, are long, channelled, and embracing the: 
as stem: flowers semi-double, purple, and 
very splendid, 
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Tae elegant plant is the purple variety mentioned in our last Vol. Pl. 373. and flowered at the same 
a en eee y double flowers, and so equal in point of beauty, that we hesitated some time 
in its present semi-double State, it would undoubtedly have claimed precedence, as well from its pre- 
served botanic character, as its superior beauty. The singular versatility of these plants we were en- 
tirely unacquainted with when we figured the rose-coloured one; as, since that period, we have seem 
them in bloom with single flowers, i i 
found this purple one in the semi-double state which our figure represents, the plant then bearing five- 
and-twenty flowers in full perfection, forming a coup-d’ceil superior to any shrub we have ever seen- 
