11. P.Wittmanniana Hartw. ex Lindl. var. nudicarpa Schipczinsky in Not. Syst. Herb. Hort. Bot. PetroP.2, 44 (1921).Syn. P.Wittmanniana Steven in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 21, iii, 275 (1848), et in Ann. Sc. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, 12, 374 (1849) ; Boissier, Ft. Orient. 1, 97 (1867), pro parte ; Ruprecht, Fl. Caw. (in Mem. Acad. Sc. St. Petersb., Ser. 7, 15, no. a), 46 (1869) ; Bot. Mag. t. 6645 (1882) ; Baker, in Gard. Chron. 21, 779 (1884) ; Smirnov, Emm. Espec. PI. Vase. Caw. (in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1887) 962 (1887); Lynch in Jown. Roy. Hort. Soc. 12, 435 (1890); Huth in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 14, 266 (1891), pro parte; Lomakin in Trud. Tiflis Bot. Soda, 2, 280, 283 (1897); Busch in Kusnezow, Busch & Fomin, Mat. Fl. Caw. Crit. 3, iii, 12 (1901), 224 (1903) ; Rev. Hort. 1906, P.348-9, fig. 139, 140; Grossheim, Fl. Kavkaza, 2, 91 (1930) ; Saunders in New Flora and Silva, 3, 237 (1931) ; Meyer in Gartenfl. 84, 175, cum fig. (1935) ; Komarov, Fl. U.R.S.S. 7, 29, t. 3, fig. 3 (1937) ; F. C. Stem in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 68, 126 (1943). — non Lindl. (1846).P.corallina Retz. var. Wittmanniana Albow Prodr. Fl. Colchicae (Trud. Tiflis Bot. Sada, 1, SuppL), 14 (1895), quoad plantam carpellis glabris.P.Hartwissiana Hort. ex Trautvetter in Acta Horti PetroP.8, 61 (1883), nomen subnudum. Paeonia sp.Fischer in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1, 207 (1842).

Description. Stem glabrous, up to i m. high. Lower leaves biternate. Leaflets elliptic to broadly obovate, acute, cuneate at the base, dark green and glabrous above, glaucous and villose beneath. Flowers 9-11 cm. in diameter. Petals concave, broadly obovate, creamy yellow. Stamens 2 cm. long, filaments crimson, anthers yellow. Carpels 2-4, green, glabrous, stigma purple. Follicles 4 cm. long.

Differs only from P.Wittmanniana by the glabrous carpels.

Distribution. western caucasus : Georgia, Tiflis (woods of Pontus and Kolchis), alpine meadows of Abkhazia. This paeony, which is commonly known in our gardens as P.wittmanniana, has been dealt with under the preceding account of the species. This form with glabrous carpels must now be known by Schipczinsky's varietal name of P.Wittmanniana var. nudicarpa to separate it from P.Wittmanniana proper, which has tomentose carpels. [end page 59]