340 Account of New Chinese and Indian Chrysanthemums. 



15. Golden Lotus-flowered Chrysanthemum. This variety 

 was brought to England by Mr. Parks in 1824 in the Lowther 

 Castle, and blossomed the season it arrived. The name 

 is a translation of the original Chinese appellation, the cor- 

 rectness of which has been proved by comparison with 

 a drawing made in China, by the artist employed there for 

 the Horticultural Society. The plant is strong, growing 

 to a tolerable size, and producing its flowers plentifully in 

 the second season, in loose corymbs at the ends of its 

 branches. The expansion of a good sized flower is about 

 three inches and an half, with an uneven circumference. 

 Mr. Parks states that in China they grow much larger, and 

 are there very grand. The florets project a little forwards, 

 and then spread out widely, so as to form a flatly opened 

 flower, with an hollow centre; before they are fully ex- 

 panded, their inner florets are incurved, and cover the disc, 

 which, when the whole is fully blown, appears in view. The 

 colour of the florets is uniformly a rich deep yellow, they are 

 of different lengths from two inches, to an inch and a half : 

 the longest, though mixed with shorter ones, being most 

 removed from the centre; they are quilled a short part of 

 their length, the open part is very broad, furrowed, flatly ex- 

 panded, contracted, and slightly notched at the end. The 

 blossoms are far superior to either those of the Golden Yellow 

 or the Sulphur Yellow, not only from the richness of the colour 

 and the breadth of the florets, but from their being usually 

 nearly entirely free from any stain of red on their backs. 

 The leaves are large dull grayish green, slightly recurved, 

 more indented towards the base than in the upper part; 

 the lobes are not imbricated, they are sharply but not deeply 



