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* STRANV^SIA glaucescens. 



Grey-leaved Stranvcesia. 



ICOSANDRIA PEXTAGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. Rosacea § Pome.e. 



STRANV^J'^SIA. Calyx 5-dentatus. Petala 5, concava, sessilia, patentia, basi 

 villosa. Sttimma 20, patula. Ovarium Tillosum, supenim, 5-loculare; ovulls cuique 

 loculo biuis. Styl'i 5, subcoucreti, apice liberi, stigmatibus totidein compresso-reniformi- 

 bus. Fructus sphcericus, clausiis, inehidens capsulam superam, quinquevalveni, osseam, 

 frasilem, loeulicido-debiscentcm. iSCTH?'?ia oblonga. compressa; fesid cartilagiuea; radi- 



cidA exseiiA. Arbores sempervirentes, Asi<e temperatte. Folia simplicia. Flores 



corymbosi. 



S. glaucescens ; foliis lanceolatis coriaceis serratis basi acuminatis subtus ad cqstam pe- 

 tiolo I'amisque junioribus floccoso-villosis, corymbis sublanatis, pedicellis alabastro 

 bisterve longioribus. 



Crattegus glaiica. Wallich. Cat. no. 673. 



Arbor mediocris, semperrirens, atroviridis, subglauca ; ramis purpureis jmiioribus 

 tojiieiitosis adultis glabriusculis. Folia cor'uicea, parkni idtidfLy laiiceolata, acuta, serrafa, 

 basi acuminata, subtus ad costain petiohwtque villosa. Corymbi multiflori, densi, albi, 

 jtoccoso-villosi. Calyx lanatus, 6-dentatus. Petala obloiuja, euiurgiiiata, concava, pa- 

 tentia, basi villoaa. Stamina '20, imequalia, dentibus calycis longiura. Ovarium sttperum, 

 tomentosum, b-loculare loculis disperniis. Styli 5, apice tantum liberi, glabri, stigmatibus 

 conipresso-reniforniibus. Fructus jparrus, sphcericus, aurantiacus, dentibus calycis clausus, 

 puhcscens. Capsula inclusa, subpubescens, ossea, frazils, b-locularis, 5-valvis, vcdvulis 

 medio septiferis ab axi solubilibus. Semina compressa, test& eartilagine& vestita ; 

 radiculii exsertd. 



It is about eleven years since the first plant of this new evergreen was first 

 brought to England by Dr. VVallich, and placed in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, under the name of CratcPgus glauca,by which it has been extensively 

 distributed. Its native countries are the provinces of Nepal and Kaniaon. 



In the neighbourhood of London the species is scarcely more hardy than a 

 myrtle ; but it grows very well against a wall where it is protected, and in such a 

 situation it flowers in the month of June. In warmer counties I have no doubt 

 that it will prove a valuable evergreen. The worst part of its habit is its pushing 

 early in the spring ; which exposes it to be damaged by frosts ; and this seems to 

 happen to it ui its native country, if we can judge from the dried specimens dis- 

 tributed by the East India Company, all of which, when ui flower, evidently have 

 the leaves injured by frost, or some such accident. Its leaves are something like 

 those of Photinia integrifolia, with which it was mixed in Dr. Wallich 's distri- 

 bution of dried specimens; its serrated leaves will however readily distinguish it. 



It takes by grafting, or budding upon the common thorn, and may now be pro- 

 cured without difficulty in the Nurseries under the name of Cratsgus glauca. 



As a genus this is one of the most remarkable in the Ponieous suborder of 

 Rosacese, in consequence of its truly capsular 5-valved fruit, resembling a pome, 

 only so far as the fleshy calyx is concerned. On this account it bears the same 

 relation to other FomeiE as Gaultheria to Vaccinium. It is true, that in some 

 other Pomeous genera tlie pericarp is dry, while the calyx tube only is fleshy, as 

 Cotoneaster and Photinia. But in none of them is there any tendency to a 

 separation of the carpels into valves. 



* The Honourable William Fo.^ Strangways, F. R.S., is so well known in this country 

 for a learned and indefatigable investigator of the Flora of Europe, as to vender super- 

 fluous any justification of the name now proposed for a most distinct and remarkable genus. 



