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Celastrus Pyr acanthus. Pyracantha- 

 Leaved Staff-Tree. 



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Oafs and Order* 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Char after. 



Cor. 5-petaIa patens. Cap/. 3-gona, 3-vaIvis : valvis medio 

 feptiferis. Setri. calyptrata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CELASTRUS pyracanthus ; ramis teretibus, foliis ellipticis 

 fubintegerrimis lucidis, paniculis axillaribus 

 paucifloris, pedicellis unifloris divaricatis. 



CELASTRUS fpinis nudis, ramis teretibus foliis acutis. 

 Hort. Cliff. .72. Sp. PI. 285. Reich. 553. 

 Willd. Sp. 1. 1129. Mill. Icon. t. 87. Hort. 

 Kezv. 1. 272. G<ert. FrucJ. 2. /. 95. 



C. fpinofus, foliis obovatis integris marginatis paniculis axil- 

 laribus. Tbunb. Prod. 42. 



LYCIUM aethiopicum, pyracanthae folio. Comm. Hort. 1. 

 p. 163. /. 84. Weinm. Phyt. t. 687. Raj. 

 Dend. 72. 



ALATERNUS Arbuti foliis lucidis. Pink. Phyt. t. 126. f. 2 

 et 3. 



RHAMNO fimilis ; Africana ; fruftu triloculari folio pyra- 

 canthae. Bcerh. hid. Alt. 2. p. 212. - 



This evergreen fhrub is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, from which country it was early introduced into Hol- 

 land, and thence difperfed over molt parts of Europe. It 

 has been long common in our greenhoufes. This genus is fo 

 *ubje£t to vary, under cultivation, with refpe6t to being with 

 °r without fpines, that it is not poflible to make ufe of this 

 circumftance as a fixed character ; the individual from which 



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