1836 
* KAGENECKIA crategifólia. 
Crategus-leaved Kageneckia. 
— 
Nat. ord. RosACE&, $ QuILLANE. 
KAGENECKIA. Flores unisexuales. Calyx 5-fidus, laciniis wstivatione 
imbricatis. Petala 5. Stamina marum 15, cestivatione deflexa, quorum series 
exterior prima erigitur, Discus ceraceus tubum calycis muniens. Carpella 5, 
petalis alterna, tomentosa, omnind sejuncta, ovulis plurimis horizontalibus; styli 
subnulli; stigmata simplicia emarginata, — Folliculi lignosi, dehiscentes; semi- 
nibus samaroideis. 
K. crategoides ; floribus corymbosis, foliis oblongis serratis acutis, sepalis mar- 
gine tomentosis subdenticulatis. 
K. crategoides. Don in Edinb. Ph. Journ. n. s. 10, 229. 
“Lydea Lyday. Molin. Hist:nat. chil. ed. 2. 300.” 
MÀ 
À very pretty and half-hardy evergreen shrub, native of 
Chili, and flowering in this country in June. 
I call it half-hardy because I have never yet seen it cul- 
tivated in the open air, except beneath the protection of 
walls, but I have no doubt that it will succeed perfectly in 
our South-western counties. 
The plant has never yet been increased except by seed, 
but it would doubtless multiply by layers, if not by cuttings. 
Our drawings were made in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society in June last. 
Professor Don refers this genus, Quillaia and Vauque- 
linia, to an order he separates from Rosacez, under the 
name of Quillajiz, for the following reasons, “ Quillaia and 
Kageneckia, (he says,) together with Vauquelinia, I consider, 
* Dedicated by the authors of the Flora Peruviana to M. de Kageneck, Am- 
bassador from the | iem of Germany to the King of Spain. 
