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554. C. Azartilut 



Sepals obtuse. Styles 1 3 Fruit globose, scarlet. Seeds usually two; 

 and hence the name, common at Montpelier, pommettes a deux closes. (Dec. 

 Prod.} A low tree, never found wild as a bush. South of France and 

 Italy, in small woods and in rough places. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft ; in Eng- 

 land 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1G56. Flowers white; May and June. 



I Fruit red ; ripe in September. Leaves drop with the first frost, without 



i much change of colour. 



'arieties. In the Noiiveau Du Hamel,s\x varieties are enumerated, viz. : 1. 

 1 jl/espilus .-Jronia, with the leaves hairy beneath ; 2. Azarole, with large deep 

 . red fruit ; 3. Azarole, with yellowish white fruit ; 4. Azarole, with long 

 I fruit of a whitish yellow ; 5. Azarole, with double flowers ; and, 6. the 

 j White Azarole of Italy. With the exception of the first-mentioned, none 

 of these varieties, as far as we know, are in British gardens. 



The fruit, when ripe, is mealy, and somewhat acid ; and, in Italy and the 

 evant, it is occasionally sent to table. 



S 19. C. (A.) marocca'na Pers. The Morocco Thorn. 



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'(entification. Pers. Syn., 2. p. 37. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 600. 

 \/noni/?iies. DeCandollo expresses a doubt whether C. maOra Lin.Jil. Sup. 253. be not a synonyme 

 ofthib species; Sarrour, Arabian. 



ftgraviviii. Bot. Reg., 1855. ; fig. "07. in p. 397. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and 

 puryig. USo. 



pec. Char., Sfc. Leaves wedge-shaped, 3-lobed, and pinnatifid, glabrous, 

 I glandless. Stipules cut, rather palmately. Flowers upon long peduncles, 

 1 in terminal glabrous corymbs. Sepals obtuse. Styles 2. (Dec. Prod.) A 

 j handsome pyramidal low tree, with dark-coloured branches. Palestine, on 

 j Mount Sinai and St. Catherine; and ? Morocco. Height 15 ft. to 35 ft. 



Flowers pure white, very fragrant ; May and June. Fruit scarlet ; ripe in 



October. 



Closely resembling C. Azarblus, but smaller in all its parts. It produces its 

 ives very early in the season, in mild winters even in January ; and it retains 

 ',em very late. It is a small, but decided tree, and may be considered one 



the handsomest species of the genus. Horticultural Society's Garden 



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