supplementary to Uncyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 473 



of about 15 in. in length, but does not root at the joints, al- 

 though encouraged by layering, but dies back, like its female 

 parent, in winter. However, I have succeeded, this season, in 

 obtaining four fine plants of it, by dividing it at the rootstock, 

 which are all now in fine bloom. It is a great flowerer from May 

 until November, and will be a handsome addition to the flora of 

 rock-work, for which it seems peculiarly eligible. I may men- 

 tion, for the sake of those who advocate the existence of the 

 condition of sterility in hybrids, that it has hitherto continued 

 barren, although it has now been flowering these six years. The 

 description given in p. 373. of Mr. Tongue's hybrid answers so 

 nearly to the kind I have raised, that one would think that it 

 was the same plant, although it could not by any possibility 

 be so : if it deviate at all from that description, I would say 

 that the colour of the flower of my plant is orange ; that it is 

 larger than a sixpenny piece ; and that the sepals of the outer 

 series are not so long, nor so broad, as those of the inner one, 

 and are reflexed. — John Smith. Ballysagartmore, Lisinore, 

 Ireland, Jidy 20. 1835. 



[In the specimens sent, for which we thank Mr. Smith, the 

 likeness appears to us to be strong to P. formosa, but with the 

 stems, branches, and peduncles much slenderer, and the leaves 

 much smaller; the flowers are large for the habit, and the colour 

 very dissimilar to that of P. formosa. Mr. Tongue's hybrid 

 was more similar in habit to T. reptans.] 



LXXIV. Pomdcece. 



1506. CRAT^'GUS. [1824 s B G C co Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. SCO 



tl2933 mexic^na M. ^ S. Mexican a i ? | ? or 10 su W The table lands of Mexico 1823 or else 



The figure exhibits inflorescence, flowers, leaves, and fruit, 

 and these from a plant which flowered in summer, 1834, and 

 bore ripe fruit in November, 1834, each for the first time, in the 

 garden of Boyton House, Wilts, the residence of A. B. Lam- 

 bert, Esq., where this plant had been raised from seed received, 

 in 1829, from the native country of the species, "the table 

 lands of Mexico." The plant in the garden at Boyton House 

 is a small bushy tree, 8 ft. to 10 ft. high, spineless, apparently 

 evergreen ; the leaves may be stated to resemble those of Mespilus 

 grandiflora ; flowers disposed in many-flowered corymbs at the 

 tips of branchlets ; corolla pure white ; anthers pale pink; pome 

 (fruit) of about the size of a medlar of the common smaller 

 kind, globose, slightly tapered at the base, glabrous, when un- 

 ripe green, when ripe pale yellow with dots of brown ; flesh of 

 a disagreeble bitter taste. Mr. D. Don has deemed it a valuable 

 addition to our sorts of hardy shrubs, as it produces an abund- 

 ance of white blossoms, which are succeeded by fruit of unusual 

 size [it is much larger, even, than the almost cherry-sized 



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