tion to those of the Double White. On first opening they appear of a 
deep rose colour, but when expanded become paler. The petals are 
numerous, and regularly arranged over one another, forming a peculiarly 
nice, even, and compact flower, faintly veined with red. The exterior 
petals are of a roundish form, always darker in colour than the interior 
ones. They are each about an inch broad, and become recurved after 
the flower has been sometime open. The interior petals are much 
smaller, and pointed, and of a pale rose colour; at first they are erect, 
concave, and closely set together, so that the centre of the flower is con¬ 
siderably elevated: they afterwards expand almost flat, and leave a little 
hollow space in the centre, which is very often hid by small, narrow, 
irregularly formed petals, with a yellowish tip, having the appearance 
of stamina. The flowers continue a long time in perfection, and are 
slightly fragrant. 
It is generally believed to have been first imported in 1808, for the 
Royal Garden, Kew. The figure of it in the Botanical Magazine, was 
made from a plant which flowered in the Collection of Messrs. Chandler, 
at Vauxhall, in 1814; but neither in that work, nor in Curtis’s Mono¬ 
graph, to which we have also referred, is it stated when it was intro¬ 
duced. Messrs. Loddiges mention it in their Botanical Cabinet, as 
having been very rare in 1811, when Mr. Aiton presented them with a 
cutting of it. A few years afterwards it was in great repute, and 
began to be common in the nurseries about London. It is usually 
received from China for the Hemngularis, a variety no less remarkable 
for the regular disposition of its petals, than for the peculiar elegance of 
its flowers, which are admirably represented in several collections of 
Chinese drawings we have seen, and particularly in the one belonging 
to the Horticultural Society. We would almost be inclined to question 
whether such a variety as this existed in China, if the drawings of the 
other sorts, which have been introduced from thence, were not in ge¬ 
neral so accurate, as to place the matter beyond a doubt. 
We are acquainted with a plant, which is cultivated in some 
Collections under the name of the Large-flowering Myrtle-leaved, but 
which does not appear to be different from the one above described. 
