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* LINDLEYA mespiloides. 
Medlar-like Lindleya. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacex. $ QUILLAJÆ, Endl. 
LINDLEYA. Calyx tubo turbinato, limbo quinquepartito. Corolle 
petala 5, calycis fauci inserta, eiusdem laciniis alterna, brevissime ungui- 
culata, patentia. Stamina 15-20, disco annulari calycis faucem marginanti ` 
inserta; anthers lanceolatee, basi uncinato-reflexse, cruribus insequalibus, 
connatis, biloculares. Ovaria 5, in unicum quinqueloculare coalita. Ovula 
in quovis loculo 2, collateralia, infra apicem affixa, pendula. Styli 5, termi- 
nales; stigmata subclavata. Capsula calyce persistente suffulta, ovato- 
pentagona, lignosa, quinquesuleata, quinquelocularis, loculicide quinque- 
valvis, loculis di- v. abortu monospermis. Semina margine membranaceo 
cincta. ... Arbor mexicana, glaberrima ; folis sparsis, simplicibus, in- 
tegris, crenulatis, stipulis petiolaribus geminis, floribus ad apicem ramulorum 
axillaribus, solitariis, pedunculatis, bracteatis, albis. Endl. gen. no. 6399. 
L. mespiloides, Humb. Bonp. Kunth. nov. gen. pl. 6. 239. t. 562. Lis. 
DeCand. Prodr. 2. 548. 
Semina ovalia, tenuia, alata, testd mucilaginosd vesiculosd. Cotyledones 
tenues, plane. Radicula conica, exserta, hilo proxima. 
This plant is an evergreen tree of small size, looking very 
much like Mespilus grandiflora, but with flowers as sweet- 
scented as the Hawthorn bloom. It belongs to a small set of 
Rosaceous plants, of which one, the Kageneckia crategifolia, 
has been already figured at t. 1836 of this work. The late 
Professor Don attempted to distinguish them as a peculiar 
natural order, but unwisely, and on erroneous grounds. That 
they are really nothing more than Rosaceous plants is proved 
by this plant grafting readily on the common Thorn and the 
larger kinds of Cotoneaster ; in which way it is propagated. 
But although Lindleya and its allies are by no means to be 
separated from Rosacez, they form a peculiar group, remark- 
* Named thus by Humboldt and Kunth, in the year 1823, after the 
present editor of the Botanical Register. 
