Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul¬ 
tural Society, in May last, from a plant presented to the 
Society by Messrs. Loddiges, under the name of Mespilus 
floribunda, which we have partially adopted. It has been 
many years in this country, as appears from the Banksian 
Herbarium, in which are laid specimens of it, from the 
Garden of the late Dr. Fothergill. In the same invaluable 
collection are also two specimens from the Garden of the 
late Mr. Peter Collinson, marked “ Mespilus arbutifolia 
L. var. calycibus hirtis.” Of these, we conceive the 
smaller one, on the right side, to be of this species; the 
other is probably from a different plant. 
A hardy shrub, forming a dense bush, which in the 
spring is covered with a profusion of white flowers, ele¬ 
gantly set off by the rosy red of their unburst antherae; 
and in the autumn rendered scarcely less an object of 
ornament by the clusters of dark blackish-purple berries 
with which its branches are loaded. 
A shrub with the full-grown branches reclinate, cinereous, 
and smooth, the young ones downy. Leaves obovate-lanceo- 
late, finely crenulate, smooth above, with a glandular costa, 
the younger obtuse, densely downy beneath, the old ones 
pubescent beneath, and tapering to a point. Corymbs pro¬ 
duced in unusual abundance, many-flowered, longer than 
the leaves; the pedicels and calyxes covered all over with 
down. Flowers white, with concave, entire petals. Anthers, 
when unexpanded, red. Styles always 5, smoothish. 
Haws almost as many as there are flowers, the size of 
a large pea, round, sfnooth, dark purple, austere, crowned 
by the minute calyx and persistent stamens. 
J. L. 
