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variety with single flowers is uncertain ; it is more probably 

 the latter. All the cultivated varieties, according to Lou- 

 reiro, have small flowers ; he has particularly mentioned four. 

 — The 1st, with double ligulate yellow flowers ; this agrees 

 with the figure published in the Transactions of the Horti- 

 cultural Society,* from a drawing belonging to the East India 

 Company. The 2nd. With a yellow ray and disc ; probably 

 the Double Yellow Indian here described. The 3rd. With a 

 yellow disc and white ray ; of this we have not yet obtained a 

 plant, nor seen a drawing. The 4th. With the disc and ray 

 white ; this is, I suppose, the Double White Indian. 



The conversion of the tubular florets of the disc into a more 

 ornamental form by elongation and enlargement, instead of 

 their becoming ligulate florets, is a mode of variation in Chrys- 

 anthemums I was not before acquainted with. It exists in 

 the two above described varieties of the Chrysanthemum 

 Indicum, as well as in the Yellow Warata'h Chrysanthemum; 

 and as there is no other instance of this kind of variation in 

 the Chinese Chrysanthemums, the circumstance gives addi- 

 tional strength to the supposition that this plant belongs to a 

 distinct species. The first of Loureiro's varieties of C. 

 Indicum above noticed, has a multiplication of ligulate florets, 

 like the varieties of C. Sinense. 



In the preceding description of the Chinese Chrysanthe- 

 mums, I have omitted any notice of the scent of Chamomile 

 in the flowers, which, in fact, with one exception, is common 

 to the whole of them, though differing in strength. The 

 excess appears to exist whenever a greater portion of the 

 * See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. iv. Plate 13. 

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