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PASONIA Moutan. «. 
Sir Abraham Hume's Tree-Paony. Moutan. 
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POLYANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNcULACE®. Decand. syst. nat. 1. 127. Div. II. Ra- 
nunculacee spuriz, Nempé antheris introrsis donate. ; 
PHUONIA. Cal. 5-sepalus, sepalis subfoliaceis ineequalibus orbiculatis 
persistentibus. Pet. 5 (interdum 6-10) orbicularia subeequalia ungue de- 
Stituta. Discus carnosus germina cingens; germ. 2-5 grossa; stig. sessilia 
crassa falcata bilamellata crispa; capss. (folliculive) 2-5, ovate, apice stig- 
mate superate; l-loc., polysperma, suturd longitudinali superné dehis- 
centes: sem. subglobosa nitida; umbilicus prominulus; albumen carnosum; 
embryo in basi locatus. Herbe aut raritis suffrutices ; rad. perennes collo 
crasso subhorizontali, fibris fasciculatis extits nigricantibus aut omnibus aut 
alits cylindricis, alteris in tubercula ovata cylindraceave incrassatis; vagine 
squamose ad basin caulis; gemma: radicales squamis petiolaribus constantes 5 
fol. alterna petiolata bis ternatim secta; flores terminales, ampli, purpurei, 
rosei, aut albi (nunquam nec ceerulei nec lute), facilé multiplices. Dec. 1. c. 
. 
P. Moutan, caule fruticoso, foliis bipinnatim sectis, segmentis ovali- 
oblongis subtts glaucis, capsulis villosis interdim urceolo inclusis. 
Decand. loc. cit. 387. 
Peonia Moutan. Curtis's magaz. 1154. Bonpl. nav. et malm. 1. et 61. t. 1. 
et 23. Smith in Rees’s cyclop.n.1. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 315. 
Peeonia suffruticosa. Andrews’s reposit. 373, 448, 
Peeonia officinalis, var. Thunb. jap. 230. Lour. cochin. 1. 343. 
Moutan ou Pivoine, arbrisseau de Chine. Mem. chin. 3. 461. 
(8) Papaveracea; capsulis in urceolo omnind inclusis. 
Peonia papaveracea. Andrews’s reposit. 463. Smith in Rees’s c clop. n. 2. 
Frutex elegantissimus in hortis nostris scepiis see aan RP cal 8-10 pedes 
interdum crescens ; caulis teres, ramosus, digiti crassitie, levis; rami novelli 
Soliosi, catert nudi; fol. patentia, biternatim bipinnatimve secta, segmentis 
ovalibus oblongisve, infertoribus integris, summis trilobis superné intenseé viridi- 
bus glabris, subtus glaucis pilos minimos sparsos gerentibus; flores terminales, 
ampli, solitarti, suaveolentes; fol. floralia 2 immediat2 sub flore involucralia, 
2-3-partita, lobis oblongis sepiis reflexis; cal. 5-sepalus; pet. 5-10 et plu- 
rima magna orbiculata scepé tnciso-dentata. g 
(«) Urceolus carnosus germinum basin cingens, apice dentatus; germina 
2-9 ovato-oblonga tomentoso-villosa, stigmate crispo rubro coronata; capss. 
pollicem longe, rufis villis onuste, stigmate coronate, ints 5-7-sperme, 
mature patentes. Variat floribus sepius plenis, semiplenisve roseo-purpureis 
aut albis, petalis subintegris aut incisis, ramis longioribus aut brevioribus, 
Soliis majoribus pallidioribus aut minoribus intensits viridibus. 
(8) (que forsan species propria) habet flores magnos semiplenos albos ad 
basin Adare elegantér purpureo-radiatos; pet. septits apice lacera; capss. 
Jere semper 6 villosas dispermas. Germina hujus stirpis sunt, pritis observante 
cl. R. Brown, intra urceolum carnoso-membranaceum glabrum subglobosum 
apice perforatum dentatumque, modo singularissimo ut in Caricibus, inclusa ! 
stigmata extra orificium urceolt paululiim exserta. Dec. |. c. 
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