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Puorti’n1a Lindi. Carpels 2; when in the state of ovary, villose. Petals 
reflexed. Shrubs, or low trees. LEvergreen.. Flowers in terminal pa- 
nicles. Leaves simple, leathery, sawed or entire. In P. integrifolia, the 
ovaries are 3, and each includes 2 ovules. 
Coronga’stER Medik. Carpels 2—3; in the state of ovary enclosing 2 
ovules. Shrubs or low trees. Leaves simple, entire, woolly beneath. 
Flowers in lateral spreading corymbs. 
AMELA’NCHIER Medik. Ovaries 5, each divided by a partition, so that there 
are 10 cells; ovules, 1 in each cell. Ripe pome including 3—5 carpels. 
Petals lanceolate. Small trees. Leaves simple, serrate, deciduous. 
Flowers in racemes. 
Mr’spitus Lindl. Fruit top-shaped, spreadingly open at the top. Carpels 
2—5 compressed nuts with bony shells, each including 1 seed. Small 
trees, spiny or not. Leaves lanceolate, serrulate, deciduous. Flowers 
large, subsessile, subsolitary. 
Py’rus Lindl. Carpels 5, or 2—5. Seeds 2 in each carpel. Trees or 
shrubs. Leaves simple or pinnate, deciduous. Flowers in spreading ter- 
minal cymes or corymbs. 
Cypo'n1a Tourn. Carpels 5, each including many seeds. Low trees. 

Sect. 1. AmyGpa‘LExZ Juss. 
Genus I. 
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AMY’GDALUS Tourn. Tue Atmonp Tree. Lin. Syst. Icosandria 
Monogynia. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 402.; Dec. Fl. Fr., 4. p.486.; Prod., 2. p. 330.; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 482. 
Synonymes. Amygdaléphora Neck. ; Amandier, Fr. ; Mandelbaum, Ger. 
Derivation. From amvssé, to lacerate, in reference to the fissured shell of the nut. Martinius sus- 
pects that it comes from a Hebrew word which signifies vigilant; because its early flowers announce 
the return of spring. 
Description, §c. _ Deciduous shrubs or trees of the middle size, natives 
of the north of Africa, and the mountains of Asia; also of Russia, and the 
Levant. The fruit-bearing species are cultivated in the middle and south 
of Europe and the Levant; and are propagated chiefly by grafting ; and 
the others by grafting, layers, or suckers. The almond was included by 
Linnzus in the same genus with the peach, of which it is, doubtless, the parent, 
as trees have been found with almonds in a state of transition to peaches. 
They have been separated into two genera, on account of certain technical dis- 
tinctions in the fruit, which will probably be rejected, when, in consequence 
of extended experience, and a better knowledge of physiology, a more en- 
larged view shall be taken of the subject of establishing genera and species. 
%1,A.na‘na LZ. The dwarf, or shrubby, Almond. 
Identification. Lin. Mant., 396. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p.530.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 482. 
Synonymes. Prinus inérmis Gmel.; A. nana var. « vulgaris Dec.; Amandier nain Fr.; Zwerche- 
mandel, Ger. 
Engravings. ? Pluk. Alm.,t. 11. f. 3. ; Bot. Mag., t. 16]. ; N. Du Ham., 4. t. 30.; and our figs. 394, 395. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves oblong-linear, tapered at the base, serrated, glabrous ; 
flowers solitary, rose-coloured ; calyx cylindrically bell-shaped ; fruit of 
the same shape as that of A. communis, but much smaller. Frequent in 
Calmuck, and about Odessa. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 530.) 
Varieties. 
% A.n.2 gedrgica Dec. A. gedrgica Desf. Arb.,2. p.221. The Georgian dwarf Almond. — 
It differs from the species in having the lobes of the calyx lanceolate, and as long as its 
tube ; and the styles only tomentose at the base, being scarcely so there, and not protruded. 
A native of Georgia, which has been cultivated in the Geneva Botanic Garden. 
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