supplementary to Eficyc. of Plants and Hart. Brit. 583 



corollas are blush-coloured. '* It appears to be a hardy shrub ; 

 our specimen, however, was taken, in- January last, from a plant 



which had flowered in a green-house For its introduction, 



the public is indebted to John Reeves, Esq." ( Bot. Reg., Oct.) 

 LXXIV. PomdcecE. 



1505. AfE'SPILUS. 

 12894 lob^ta Poir. \dbei.lenfed ^ or 15 my.jn W ... 1800 G co Bot. mag. 34i2 

 Synonymes: lobkta Poir., Encyc. bot. suppl., iv. 71.; Smith«' Dec, Prod., ii. 633.: grandiflbra 

 Smith, Exot. bot. i. p. 33. 1. 18. 



The causes of this species having three specific. epithets are 

 these: — De Candolle has, in his Prod., superseded the name 

 grand ifl6ra*S'?w^//^ by that of SmithzV Dec, where he has remarked, 

 as if for a reason, that its flowers are smaller by almost half 

 than those of germanica, the common medlar. Dr. Hooker has 

 now communicated that De Candolle applied his name Smith// 

 " . . . . without being aware that it was the lobata of Poiret, who 

 described it from plants growing in the French nurseries." 

 {Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



Lobata is a small tree of much interest in the shrubbery or 

 the pleasure-ground. It is very hardy, grows readily, flowers 

 pretty abundantly, and is ornamental in its flowers and in its 

 copious vesture of darkish-green foliage. The leaves are much 

 narrower than those of germanica, and show some tendency to 

 lobedness. 



CRAT^^GUS. 



mexic^na M. Sf S., information on, additional to that given in p. 473, 474., chiefly on the points of 

 the introduction of, and the degree of its hardiness, in Britain. 



I see by your Magazine that there are some doubts thrown 

 out respecting the introduction of the Cratae^gus mexicana, which, 

 in a few words, I can easily clear up. The fruits of it were 

 brought to this country by the late Lord Napier, on his return 

 from Mexico, and he gave them to me. I planted the seeds im- 

 mediately, and they very soon came up ; and I have no doubt 

 that these were the first seeds which came to this country. He 

 also brought home several other valuable seeds of species of 

 plants new to Britain : among them was a very fine new species 

 of ^'rbutus, resembling very much the A. ^ndrachne, which has 

 not yet flowered. I believe there is only one more plant in 

 the country besides the one I possess. I first of all tried the 

 plants of the Cratae^gus as standards; but they were so much 

 injured by the frost, that I put two of them against the garden 

 wall, where they are not the least injured by the frost ; and last 

 year they produced fruit for the first time. The fruit remains 

 on the trees until the middle of December, or perhaps longer. 

 This year it has also flowered and fruited finer than last ; and I 

 can supply you with specimens of each if you wish it. [We 

 should be happy to receive them.] From the appearance of its 

 growth, it must be a much larger tree than any of its genus. I 

 have just now come into flower and fruit that magnificent, new, 



