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FRAGARIA indica. 

 ellow-jfowered Strawberry 



IGOSANDRIA POLYGYXIA. 



FRAGARIA. (Germiua plura indtfmita, vcre supera, rrceptaculo 



' Semina totidem nuda.) Cat* 



Pet. 5. Receptaculum Herat* 



tommuni imposifa, singula monostyla. 

 patens 10-tidus laciuiis alternis niinoribus. 



niferum magnum. 



pulposum, baccatum coloratura, rapd deoidatHft. 



$$lm sttpt radiculites; folia ternata, nuissime digi- 



minutes, quid am dioici; receplacuhim esculent nm. J ussieo. geta. 838. 



1". indica; calycis laciniis exterioribus majoribus obovatis tridentatis. 

 llort. Kexc. ed. 2. 3. 273. 



Fragaria indica. Andrews $ reposit. 47.0. 



Du'chesnea fragifornris. Smith in tin. sac. trans. 10. 373. 



^ / ubescens, reptans, JlageUis Jiliformibus, mbidis, hirsutis, duriusculis. 

 roW&in nodis solitario-distantia^ ternata % foliolis rhombeo-ovalibus, incrqua- 

 liter modoque siibduplicailm crenato-iucisis, utrinque pube rariori sericeis 9 

 brevioribus pctiolo hirsuto : stipulce gemincPj parvcr, lanceolatcr, opposite 

 amplcxicaules. Pedunculi axillares 9 solitarily uuif/ori, hirsuti, strict i. CaJ. 

 saturate vireris, rotatus, pilosus, foliolis cequilongis ; interioribus 5 angulato- 

 ovatis, acutis, post anthesin conniventibus ; exterioribus totidem patentissimis, 

 obovatis^ apice tricrenatis media crend duplo latiore. Cor. calycem vix 

 czquans, fava, rotata, decidua, peta/is oblongo-obcordatis. Fructus ercctus 9 

 sphcericus, saturate coccincus, nitidus, inodorus 9 insipidus, seminibus crcbris 

 nitentibus concoloribus obiter receptaculo baccato adhecrentibus consitus. 



A species remarkable for uniting in itself the blossom 

 of the Cinquefoil and the fruit of the Strawberry; but has 

 no other value in the garden than that which may be put 



on the fine bright poppy-coloured fruit as an ornament. 



being 



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d destitute of all flavour and 



fragrance. Native of the mountains of the continent of 

 India, where it was seen by Dr. .Buchanan 00 the sand by 



the sides of the rivers in Nepaul. We hear that there 



is still another yellow-flowered species with insipid scarlet 

 fruit, which is as peculiar to the islands of India as this is 

 to the continent, but which has not yet, we believe, reached 

 the european gardens. 



Introduced by the late Mr. Charles Grevillc, by whom it 

 was cultivated at Paddington in 1304. Usually treated as 



a greenhouse plant; but we have seen it in a still more 





