20 Ranunculacee@—P wonia. 
Tripp V.—P.LONIELE. 
Sepals imbricate. Petals large. Carpels seated on a fleshy 
disk, many-seeded, indehiscent. 
14. PAONTA. 
A genus of herbaceous or shrubby plants with large alter- 
nate lobed or dissected leaves and immense showy crimson, 
purple, rose, pink, or white flowers. Sepals 5, not petaloid, 
persistent. Petals 5 to 10 in the single flowers. Carpels 2 to 
Fig. 17. Paonia Moutan. (1 nat. size.) 
5, coriaceous when ripe. Species few, but widely spread, ex- 
tending from Central Europe, through temperate Asia, to China, 
Fig. 18. Ponia Montan. (4 nat. size.) 
and one species to North-western America, Named after Pou, 
a physician. The enormous flowers of some of the double 
