328 Account of New Chinese and Indian Chrysanthemums. 



bright yellow, and well expanded; the outer ones take a 

 horizontal direction, whilst the inner gradually project so as 

 to form a neat semiglobose head; they diminish in their length 

 very regularly, but slightly, towards the centre, which rarely 

 shows any disc ; they are distinctly notched at their ends, 

 and have their edges reflexed with their surface furrowed. 

 The branches are rigid, with short joints, and produce flowers 

 along their whole extent more than any other kind. The leaves 

 are singular ; they are dull green, broad and flat, having four 

 nearly equal imbricating lobes with shallow indentures, the 

 margins of the lobes are very slightly indented, and their 

 serratures bluntly pointed ; the small leaves at the end of 

 the branches near the flowers are more simple than usual. 

 The plants thrive and flower well against a wall, and there 

 show their property of producing blossoms along the stems, 

 better than when they are grown in pots. 



4. Blush Ranunculus -flowered Chrysanthemum. Two 

 plants of this were received in 1824 from China, one was 

 sent by Mr. Parks in the General Kyd, and the other 

 was brought by him in the Lowther Castle. The blossoms 

 produced in this country, agree so well with the Chinese 

 drawing of this variety, in the possession of the Horticultural 

 Society, that I have been enabled thereby to affix to it the 

 original name of the Blush Ranunculus-flowered; it is also 

 called in China the Drunken Lady, on account of the rosy 

 hue of its flowers. It is an early flowering kind. The 

 branches are stiff and angular with short joints. A flower 

 with an expansion of about three inches terminates each 

 shoot ; other smaller flowers, in number from four to six, grow 

 below it on short footstalks, at little distances from each 



