purpose. This has been brought to perfection in our Coun- 

 try, at Lord Bagot's, where, we are told, it has been used 

 in the dessert, and much liked for its peculiar but agreeable 

 subacid flavour. Mr. Abel, who had eaten it in China, 

 while in the suite of Lord Amherst, praises it as a delicacy. 

 The drawing of the flowering branch was taken at Colonel 

 Ansley's, at Otto House, North End. The foliage is large 

 and very ornamental. 



Stem round, branching, with a cinereously brown rimose 

 or cracked bark: branches rather bare of leaves at their 

 lower part, and somewhat scarred: branchlets scattered, 

 near, spreading, covered with a rusty fur. Leaves large, 

 scattered, near, recurvedly spreading, forming at the ends of 

 the branches a kind of rose, petioled, stipulate, oblong- 

 oval, long pointed, sharply and widishly dentate at the up- 

 per part, tapered downwards with an entire reflex margin, 

 smooth at the upper surface, and covered with a cinereously 

 rusty fur at the under, midrib with nerves branching from 

 both its sides: petiole thick short: stipules 2, the length of 

 the petiole, oval, longpointed, furred. Panicle terminal, 

 short, bracteate, with alternate horizontal bracteate rusty- 

 furred spikelets: Jlowers sessile, closish, bracteate, white, 

 larger than those of the Hawthorn, odorous. Bractes oval, 

 sharp-pointed, concave, with a ferruginous fur on the out- 

 side; those of the panicle fascicled, of the spikelets solitary 

 and horizontal, of the flowers in threes and close-pressed to 

 the calyx. Calyx thick, campanulate, half the length of the 

 corolla, ferruginously furred below, adnate to the germen, 

 above green smooth and stellately spreading. Petals rosace- 

 ously expanded, obovate, unguiculate, crenulated at the 

 edge, striate on the inside and villous. Germen shaggily 

 furred. The fruit is a yellow apple, with from one to five 

 one-seeded cells. 



