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CRATZEGUS crenulata. 
Indian Pyracantha. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosackx. $ Pome. 
CRATAGUS. Supra, v. 13. fol. 1128. 
C. erenulata ; spinescens, sempervirens, ramulis junioribus tomentosis, foliis 
angusté oblongis nitidis crenato-serratis in petiolum angustatis corymbis 
sequalibus v. longioribus, calycibus glabris laciniis subrotundis mem- 
branaceo-marginatis, stylis 5 glabris, pomis depresso-globosis. 
C. crenulata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. 509. D.C. prodr. 2. 626. 
Mespilus crenulata, Don. prodr. fl. nep. 238. 
This plant is the Pyracantha of the Indian mountains, and 
rivals that of Caucasus in its rich scarlet haws, which are 
however of a peculiar vermilion tint, and of a very depressed 
figure. Their flavour too is by no means ungrateful. In 
fact, if it would bear our climate with certainty, it would be 
preferable to the Pyracantha itself, for its leaves have a 
remarkable glossy surface, and the plant is in all respects 
handsomer. 
'The shrub is a native of Nepal, whence it was long since 
received by Dr. Roxburgh, who named it, and says that in 
the Caleutta garden it had grown to the height of from six to 
eight feet in eight years ; it would have been better for us if 
he had found it unkeepable. As it is we do not anticipate 
its hardiness in severe winters. In the garden of the Horti- 
cultural Society, where our drawing was made, it has survived 
several winters, trained against a south wall. 
Fig. 1. is a section of a flower, without the petals, shewing 
the calyx, disk, stamens and carpels, which latter adhere to 
the tube of the calyx, by their back, but are not united to 
each other. 
A fine hardy evergreen shrub, attaining about the same 
size as the common Pyracantha, and requiring the same kind 
