mpplemcniary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 453 



riaceous. Stipules adherent. Flowers terminal, solitary, almost 

 sessile; red, and very handsome. (Z). Don.) 



Spec. Char.^ ^r. C. plicata. Leaves wedge-shaped, oblong, 

 pinnatifid, plaited. Ovaries 14. (Z). Don.) 



" A rigid, evergreen, decumbent, much-branched shrub, about 

 2 ft. high, and furnished with a dark-brown bark. Branches 

 copiously clothed with stalked glands, scaly below from the re- 

 mains of past leaves. Leaves cuneately oblong, pinnatifid, 

 plicate, half an inch or more in length, dark green ; minutely 

 glandular and shining above ; white and downy beneath with 

 adpressed cottony pubescence. The nerves prominent. Lobes 

 varying from 5 to 7, short, obtuse ; the margins revolute and 

 occasionally toothed. Petioles very short, slightly channelled 

 above, sheathing at the base. Stipules adherent; the free apices 

 subulate, hairy, green, shorter than the adherent portion. 

 Flowers terminal, solitary ; when in the bud state, exactly like 

 those of jRosa. Peduncles scarcely a nail long, cylindrical, 

 thickened towards the apex, copiously downy and glandular, 

 and furnished at the base with a single, linear, acuminate, chan- 

 neled, glandular bractea. Calyx turbinate, hollow, copiously 

 downy and glandular; tube glabrous, shining, and green within; 

 limb 5-parted, spreading ; segments ovate, acuminate, entire. 

 Petals 5, obovate, double the length of the calycine segments, of 

 a rich lilac. Stamens 72, disposed in many series. Filaments 

 capillary, glabrous, white, pink at the base. Anthers cordate, 

 yellow, bilocular; the cells parallel, and opening lengthwise. 

 Ovaria 14, free, arising from the centre of the torus, which is 

 seated at the bottom of the calyx ; oblong, clavate, copiously 

 silky. Styles continuous, short. Stigmas terminal, simple, 

 yellow, minutely papillose. Achenia about 8, turbinate, silky, 

 crowned by the persistent feathery styles, which are l^^in. long." 



" We have seldom," Professor Don remarks, " had an op- 

 portunity of laying before our readers a subject of equal interest 

 and beauty with the present, which is not only a new species, 

 but an entirely new genus, to our gardens. It was raised by our 

 zealous friend Mr. Thomas Blair, gardener to Mr. Clay, at 

 Stamford Hill, from seeds picked from a specimen collected by 

 Captain Colquhoun in the Uplands of Mexico. It promises to 

 be sufficiently hardy to endure our winters in the open air; and, 

 as it is an evergreen shrub, with a peculiar habit, and large 

 showy blossoms resembling a small rose, it must be regarded 

 as the most valuable addition made to our gardens for some 

 years past. The genus was originally founded by us in the 14th 

 volume of the Lin7icean Transactions.^ upon another species, col- 

 lected in the same country by Sesse and Mocino, and which is 

 distinguished from the present one by its tripartite leaves with 

 entire lobes. The genus is exactly intermediate between Dryas 



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