By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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segments sharply serrated and pointed. An original drawing 

 from China, of this variety, is in the collection in the Library 

 of the Horticultural Society. 



21. Chrysanthemum Indicumflore pleno albo. Double White 

 Indian Chrysanthemum. This plant also came with Mr. Parks 

 in 1824, it blossomed for the first time in the present season. 

 In the stems, leaves, and general habit, it is not distinguishable 

 from the preceding kind. The whole of the flower is white, 

 but it agrees in every other circumstance with the Double 

 Yellow variety, except in size. Its expansion does not exceed 

 an inch. Only one flower opens at first at the extremity of each 

 branch, the remainder of the corymb expand later. The period 

 of its blossoming is more than three weeks after the Double 

 Yellow, for I was not able to get flowers well fitted for de- 

 scription till about Christmas, and then only the terminating 

 blossoms were open ; those on the lower parts of the branches 

 were at that time in a very backward state, and the whole 

 were destroyed by frost before they were properly expanded. 

 The plant which produced these grew well and vigorously on 

 a south wall, but those in pots and under glass did not shew 

 blossoms at all. A drawing of this variety has been recently 

 received from China into the collection in the Library of the 

 Society ; the footstalks of the flowers are represented in it as 

 rather more elongated than those which were produced in 

 the Garden of the Society, and the side shoots are figured 

 bearing corymbs of flowers, not single blossoms. 



When I published* my observations on the two species of 

 Chrysanthemums from China, in the Transactions of the Lin- 

 nean Society, and annexed the synonyms of different authors 



* See Linnean Transactions, Vol. xiv. page 142. 



