348 Account of New Chinese and Indian Chrysanthemums, 

 to my characters of them, though I referred the Chrysanthe- 

 mum lndicum of Loureiro to my C. Sinense, I did not quote 

 his* C. Procumbens as belonging to the Chrysanthemum 

 lndicum of Linnaeus, though his reference to Plukenet's 

 Matricaria Sinensis minore flore, &c. would perhaps have 

 justified it. I was deterred by the description of the pro- 

 cumbent character of the stem of his species, which certainly 

 did not at all accord with the appearance of the plant I had 

 under my observation. However, since my examination of 

 the two varieties just noticed, it appears to me that Lou- 

 reiro's character, and consequently his name, may be founded 

 on the cultivated varieties which he describes, and not on 

 a plant in a single state of inflorescence. The descriptions 

 of Loureiro are not generally considered as particularly 

 accurate, and a general accordance of plants with them may 

 therefore be sufficient to identify them, which I am therefore 

 disposed to do in the present case. 



The Small Yellow Single Chrysanthemum^' which should 

 with more propriety be called the Single' Yellow Indian 

 Chrysanthemum, has flowered this season in the Garden of the 

 Society ; it had before blossomed in December, 1821, but not 

 in the interval, for want of that high autumnal temperature 

 which is necessary to advance its flowers. It was described 

 in the Paper above referred to, and though of more upright 

 growth than the double varieties now noticed, has evidently 

 a general specific accordance, but whether it should be con- 

 sidered as the actual type of the species, or only as a cultivated 



Loureiro, Flora Cochinchinensis, page 499, and Willdenow's Edit. 

 Vol. ii. page 610. 



t See- Horticultural Transactions, Vol. v. page 159. 



