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RAPHIOLEPIS indica. 
China Hawthorn or Raphiolepis. 
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ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosAcEx. Jussieu gen. 334. Div, I. Germen simplex in- 
ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. 
Arbores ut frutices. PoMACER.* . 
RAPHIOLEPIS. , Cal. infundibuliformis 6-dentatus deciduus. Fila- 
menta filiformia, " Ovarium (germen) biloculare. Pomum disco incrassato 
clausum, putamine chartaceo: seinixa dua’ gibbosa, testà coriaceà crassis- 
simi. Frutex (China). Folia sempervirentta crenulata coriacea reticulata. 
Racemi terminales bracteis foliaceis persistentibus squamosi.. Lindley MSS. 
Raphiolepis indica. Lindley MSS. i t7 
Creteegus indica. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 683. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1005. 
Loureiro cochin. 319. igs magaz. 17261 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 
Arbor magna, inermis ramis patentibus. Folia lanceolata, inequalitèr 
serrata, glabra, alterna. Flos albus, corymbis racemosis, squamosis, ter- 
minalibus. Cal. superus, 5-fidus in senectute truncatus. Corolle petala 5, 
subrotunda, patentia. Stamina icosandra. Styli duo. Bacca calycina 
subrotunda, umbilicata, carnosa, 1-locularis, edulis: sem. 2-4, oblonga. 
Lignum rubescens, grave, tenax, aptissimum ad formandos remos, vel quos- 
libet palos, ci impulsi, vel pondere gravati, aliquantulum. cedunt, nec 
franguntur. Lour. I. c. 
RapnioLeris is proposed by Mr. Lindley in an unpub- 
lished tract on PoMAcEz, the first section of Jussieu's Order 
of Rosacez. The character was kindly communicated to 
us from the author's manuscript. 
The genus is distinguished from its coordinates of the 
same section by having a funnelform calyx, the whole 
of which, down to where it adheres to the germen, falls 
off immediately after or at the same time with the petals 
of the flower; specially from Crarzeus, where it has 
hitherto ranked, by a fruit-stone or putamen of a paper sub- 
Stance, and from all other double-celled single-fruited 
Coordinates by a seedcoat or testa of a leathery substance. 
The name (pæpiov Aeris) has been suggested by the narrow 
bractes of the raceme, which in spontaneous specimens are 
sometimes found to have acquired a herbaceous or folia- 
ceous consistence, and are unlike any thing else in this 
order. 
