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* STRANVASIA glaucéscens. 
Grey-leaved Stranvesia. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacez $ POMES. 
STRANVJESIA. Calyx 5-dentatus. Petala 5, concava, sessilia, patentia, basi 
villosa, Stamina 90, patula. Ovarium villosum, superum, 5-loculare ; ovulis cuique 
loculo binis. Styli 5, subeonereti, apice liberi, stigmatibus totidem compresso- 
bus. Fructus spheericus, clausus, includens capsulam superam, quinquevalvem, osseam, 
fragilem, loculicido-dehiscentem. Semina oblonga, compressa ; testà cartilaginea; radi- 
culà exsertà.—— Arbores sempervirentes, Asie temperate. Folia simplicia. Flores 
corymbosi. 
S. glaucescens ; foliis lanceolatis coriaceis serratis basi acuminatis subtüs ad costam pe- 
tiolo ramisque junioribus floccoso-villosis, corymbis sublanatis, pedicellis alabastro 
bisterve longioribus. 
Crategus glauca. Wallich. Cat. no. 673. 
It is about eleven years since the first plant of this new evergreen was first 
brought to England by Dr. Wallich, and placed in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, under the name of Crateegus glauca, by which it has been extensively 
distributed. Its native countries are the provinces of Nepal and Kamaon. 
In the neighbourhood of London the species is scarcely more hardy than a 
myrtle ; but it grows very well against a wall where it 1s protected, and in such a 
situation it flowers in the month of June. In warmer counties I se pou tse 
that it will prove a valuable evergreen. The worst part of its babit is its pushing 
early in the spring ; which exposes it to be damaged by frosts ; and Qe de 
happen to it in its native country, if we can judge from the dried e mtv há 
tributed by the East India Company, all of which, when in flower, hi y like 
the leaves injured by frost, or some such accident. Its leaves are ie ch 
those of Photinia integrifolia, with which it was mixed in Dr. Wallich's yt = 
bution of dried specimens; its serrated leaves will however readily distinguish 1t. 
: : be pro- 
It takes by grafting, or budding upon the common thorn, and may now bé p 
cured without difficulty in the Nurseries under the name of Crategus glauca. 
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As a genus this is one of the most remarkable in the Pomeous suborder o 
Rosacez, pu consequence of its truly capsular 5-valved fruit, — ees 
only so far as the fleshy calyx is concerned. On this account it ap ne 
relation to other Pome® as Gaultheria to Vaccinium. It is true, t ae os 
other Pomeous genera the pericarp is dry, while the calyx tube only = es ji 
Cotoneaster and Photinia. But in none of them is there any ten ency to a 
Separation of the carpels into valves. 
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* The Honourable William Fox Strangways, F.R.S., is $0 well gne oem sagra. 
for a learned and indefatigable investigator of the Flora of mmi eye markable genus. 
uous any justification of the name now proposed for a most distinet anc re 
