1836 



*KAGENECKIA crateegi folia. 



Cratcegus-leaved Kageneckia. 



Nat. ord. RosACEiE, § Quillaji^. 



KAGENECKIA. .F/ores unisexuales. Ca Z</.r 5-fidus, lacinlis aestivatione 

 imbricatis. Petala 5. Stamina marum 15, eesdvatione deflexa, quorum series 

 exterior prima erigitur. Discus ceraceus tubum calycis muniens. Carpella 5, 

 petalis alterna, tomentosa, omnino sejuncta, ovulis plurimis liorizontalibus ; styli 

 subnulli; stigmata simplicia emarginata. FoZZicii/ilignosi, dehiscentes ; semi- 

 nibus samaroideis. 



K. cratacgoides ; floribus corymbosls, foliis oblongis serratis acutis, sepalis mar- 



gine tomentosis subdenticulatis. 

 K. crataegoides. Don in Edinb. Ph. Journ. n. s. 10. 229. 

 " Lydaea Lyday. Molin. Hist nat. chil. ed. 2. 300." 



A very pretty and half-hardy evergTeen shrub, native of 

 Chili, and flowering in this country in June. 



I call it half-hardy because I have never yet seen it cul- 

 tivated in the open air, except beneath the protection of 

 walls, but I have no doubt that it will succeed perfectly in 

 our South-western counties. 



The plant has never yet been increased except by seed, 

 but it would doubtless multiply by layers, if not by cuttings. 

 Our drawings were made in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society in June last. 



Professor Don refers this genus, Quillaia and Vauque- 

 linia, to an order he separates from Rosaceae, under the 

 name of Quillajiae, for the following reasons, " Quillaia and 

 Kageneckia, (he says,) together with Vauquelinia, I consider, 



* Dedicated by the authors of the Flora Peruviana to M. de Kageneck, Am- 

 bassador from the Emperor of Germany to the King of Spain. 



