accepted name (2005):

Paeonia emodi Wall. Royle* 1834

Baker (1884):

12. P. Emodi, Wall., Cat. Ind., No. 4727 ; Hook. fil. and Thoms., Flora Brit. Ind., i., 30; Hook. fil., in Bot. Mag., t. 5719. P. officinalis, Hook. fil. and Thoms., Fl. Ind., 60, non Linn.—Stems 2—3 feet long, quite glabrous, bearing 2—3 flowers when at all luxuriant. Leaves thin in texture, glabrous on both surfaces, dark-green above, pale green beneath ; the lower with about 20—30 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate very confluent acuminate segments, 1—1 ½ inch broad. Flower white, 3—4 inches in diameter, several of the outer sepals produced into long leafy, sometimes compound points ; the petals -unequal obovate, the outer 1 ½ —1 ¾ inch broad.  Follicles 1—2, ovoid, tomentose, 1/2 inch in diameter ; stigma very small, orbicular, straight, with the two sides folded together. A native of the west temperate Himalayas, at an altitude of 5000 to 10,000 feet. A fine well-marked plant, still rare in English gardens, most like P. albiflora of the common cultivated kinds.

Stern (1946):

P.emodi Wall. ex Royle, Ill Bot. Himalayan Mts. 57 (1834); Wallich, " Cat." no. 4727 (1831), nomen subnudum; Bot. Mag. t. 5719 (1868) ; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India, 1, 30 (1872) ; Baker in Gard. Chron., N. Ser. 21,829 (1884) ; Lynch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 12, 437 (1890) ; Basu, Ind. Med. PI. 1, 36, t. 23 (1918) ; Coventry, Mid Flow. Kashmir, I, 19, t. 10 (1923) ; F. C. Stern in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 68, 129 (1943).

Syn. ...P.officinalis L. sec. Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 60 (1855), non L. emend. Willd.

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