XXVI. TJOSA^CE^ : C()Wa\\7.^. 3'21 



Genus XI. 



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COW A' N/J D. Don. The Cowania. Lin. Si/st. Icosanclria Polygynia. 



1; Identification. D. Don, in Sw. Fl. Gard., 2d series. . 



s\Dcrii'ation. In honour of Jfl?nra Cowan, a London merchant, who several times visited Mexico 

 I i and Peru, whence he introduced a great many plants. 



i\Gen.Char. Caly.t: b-cMt. Petals 5. Ovaries .'i 14^. Ovule erect. %/ terminal, 

 continuous. Achenia adorned with the pkimose persistent style, (i). Bon.) 

 Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen ; wedge-shaped, oblong, 

 pinnatifid, plaited. Flowers terminal, solitary, almost sessile, red. Shrub ; 

 native of Mexico ; very ornamental, but somewhat tender in British gardens. 



The \)\a\ted-leaved Cowania. 



p. 452. 



1. C. plica'ta D. Don. 



Swt. Brit. Flor. Gard.,t. 400.; Gard. Mas., 13. 

 Swt. Brit. Fl. Gard., t. 400. ; and our /g. 6S0. 



'fdcntification. 

 Engravitigs. 



oec. Char., ^c. Leaves wedge-shaped, 

 oblong, pinnatifid, plaited. {D. Don.) 

 A rigid, evergreen, decumbent, much- 

 branched shrub. Mexico. Height 1 ft. 

 to 2 ft. Introduced in 1835. Flowers ; 

 Jark red ; June and July. Naked 

 young wood dark brown. 



Branches copiously clothed with 

 talked glands. Petioles of the leaves 

 fery short, slightly channeled above, 

 jeathing at the base. Stipules adherent, 

 flowers, when protruding from the bud 

 lactly like those of .ffosa. This pro- 

 mising evergreen shrub, being extremely 

 ifficult to propagate, has been lost, for the present, to British gardens. 



.550. Cowaiuff iil'ckta. 



Sect. IV. ^o'sEyE Dec. 



Genus XII. 



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i?O^SA Toum. The Rose Tree. Lin. Si/st. Icosandria Polygynia. 



Mtification. Toum. Inst., 1. p. C36. t. 408. ; Lin. Gen., 631. , Lara. 111., t. 440. ; Lindl. Ros. Men., 



!vo, 1820 ; Pronville's Nomen. Rais., ]8!H, Monog. Ros., 1824 ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 564. 



nonymes. Rhodophora Neck. Elem. ; Rosier, Fr. ; Roseustock, Ger. ; Roozeboom, Dtitch \ 



llosajo, Ital. ; Rosal, Span. ; and Roseira, Portvgvese. 



irivation. From rkos, red, Celtic ; in reference to the colour of the flowers of most of the species. 



'en. Char. Calyx with the tube contracted at the mouth, and with the seg- 

 ments usually pinnately divided. Petals 5. Stamens numerous. Carpels 

 numerous, bony, inserted on the inside of the tube of the calyx, which at 

 length becomes baccate and encloses them. They are dry and indehiscent, 

 bearing each a style on the inner side. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves compound, alternate, stipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; impari- 

 pinnate. Stipules attached to the petiole. Prickles simple. Flowers large, 

 showy; red, white, or yellow ; fragrant. 



jShrubs, for the most part deciduous ; natives of Europe, and of the tem- 

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