may, we think, be safely assumed that its origin has been 

 the East, as is indeed indicated by one of its garden names. 



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Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, in May 1827. Propagated by grafting or 

 budding on the common Hawthorn. 



Mr. Watson has confounded it with the C. aronia, a 

 very different species, more nearly related to the Azarole. 

 We have specimens, by the liberality of Messrs. Loddiges, 

 from the very plant from which Mr. Watson's figure, which, 

 by the way, is not good, was made. 



A middle-sized 



with the habit of C. oxyacantha 



but more robust. Leaves lucid, quite smooth, falling off 

 late in the season ; near the inflorescence, and on old 

 branches, lanceolate, and quite entire, or oblong, cuneate, 

 3-toothed at the end; on the more vigorous branches pin- 

 natifid, serrate, somewhat cuneate : stipules very large, pin- 

 natifid. half cordate. 



Cy 



many - flowered, compact 



perfectly smooth. Cali/a^ with a linear-oblong tube, a short 

 campanulate limb, and acuminate, glandless teeth. Petals 

 denticulate, white. Sti/k thick, simple. Fruit black, oval, 

 or fusiform, crowned with the persistent limb of the calyx. 



J. L. 



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