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on the shoot deeply toothed, the upper ones deeply parallel-lobed as well as 

 toothed ; usually more or less hollowed at the base ; I to if ins. wide, not so 

 long ; bright green and almost or quite smooth ; stalk to i J ins. long, slender. 

 Flowers | in. across ; borne in May t each on a slender hairy stalk up to I in. 

 long, in corymbs. Calyx-tube downy, the lobes smooth ; stamens twenty, 

 anthers bright pink ; styles one to three. Fruit scarlet, $ in. long, oval. 



Native of the southern United States ; introduced early in the nineteenth 

 century, but has frequently quite disappeared from cultivation. It is too tender 

 for all but the milder parts of Britain, and although it may live for several 

 years and flower, as it has done at Kew, I have never seen it bear fruit. It 

 is very distinct in the shape and deep parallel lobing of the leaf. 



C. AFRICA, Beadle. 



A small tree up to 20 ft. high, or a shrub ; branchlets zigzag, armed with 

 thorns i to i^ ins. long ; young shoots and leaves soon smooth. Leaves 

 broadly diamond-shaped, obovate, oval or even roundish, more or less tapeVed 

 at the base, the upper half toothed and either pointed or rounded at the apex ; 

 lobed on strong barren shoots ; f to 2 ins. long, nearly or quite as wide ; stalks 

 |- to \ in. long, and, like the base of the leaf, very glandular. Flower f in. 

 diameter, white, produced three to six together on corymbs i^ to 2 ins. across ; 

 flower-stalk and calyx shaggy, calyx lobes conspicuously glandular-toothed ; 

 stamens ten ; anthers yellow ; styles three to five. Fruit globose, ^ in. 

 diameter, orange red. 



Native of the south-eastern United States ; introduced in 1900. It belongs 

 to the group of which C. flava is the type, but promises to be a much 

 handsomer tree than that. It flowers very freely, and its fruits are richly, if 

 not very brightly coloured. It is marked by the very glandular leaf-bases, leaf- 

 stalks, and inflorescence. 



C. AZAROLUS, Linnceus. AZAROLE. 



(C. Aronia, 



A small, very slightly spiny tree, up to 30 ft. high ; young shoots covered 

 with fine down. Leaves wedge-shaped at the base, i^ to 3 ins. long, nearly 

 as wide ; obovate to rhomboidal, three- or five-lobed (sometimes almost to the 

 midrib), lobes toothed at the end or sometimes entire ; bright green, ulti- 

 mately nearly smooth above, downy beneath ; stalk -J- to I in. long ; stipules 

 deeply toothed, cockscomb-shaped. Flowers white, about ^ in. across, 

 produced during June in densely flowered corymbs 2 to 3 ins. across ; stamens 

 twenty ; style one or two (rarely three). Fruit up to f or i in. diameter, 

 globose, mostly orange or yellow, but varying to whitish or red, apple-like in 

 flavour. 



Native of the Orient ; cultivated in England in the seventeenth century, 

 but never, I think, very common most of the trees so-called being either 

 C. orientalis 'or C. sinaica. The latter is closely allied and very similar in 

 general appearance, but its leaves are smooth. C. orientalis is different in 

 general aspect, its leaves are thinner, and with narrower, deeper lobing as 

 a rule, and the flowers have from three to five styles. The species is cultivated 

 in S.E. Europe for its edible fruits, which vary much in size and colour. 



C. BERBERIFOLIA, Torrey and Gray. 



A tree up to 20 ft. high, with crooked, horizontal branches, making a dense 

 flat-topped head ; young shoots at first hairy ; thorns up to \\> ins. long, 

 abundant. Leaves obovate or oval, always narrowed and entire "at the base, 



