PLATE CCCCLXN. 
MALUS JAPONICA. 
Scarlet-flowering Japan Apple. 
et pe CLASS XII ORDER V. 
| ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNLA, Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
“Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, concavum, ‘Empacemenr, ‘Cup one leaf, hollow, five-parted, 
quinquefidum, persistens, and remaining. . 
Corotta, Petala quinque, subrotunda, -con- Briossom. Five petals, nearly round, and hol- 
low 
‘Stamina. Filamenta viginti, subulata, corolla Cuives. Twenty, awl-shaped, and shorter than 
breviora, calyci inserta, Antherz simplices. the blossom, and inserted into the cup, 
ips sim =n 
Pistitum. Germen inferum, Styli 5. Filum Pointas, Seed-bud beneath. Shafts 5. Thread 
Aongitud:ne staminum. Stigmata simplicia. the length of the stamens. Summit simple, 
‘Perrcagrium. ;Pomum subrotundum, umbili- Sgep-vessEL, An apple nearly round, navel- 
) catum, vce ee: loculis , fleshy, skinny: partitions five locula- 
quinqueloculari 
* ‘Semins. Nonrall vblcaga, sprit basi acu- as els me oblong, obtuse, pointed at the 
a -hinc convexa, inde plana base, convex on the side, and then flat. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Matus j . foliis alternis, — et JAPAN ae: with alternate leaves lance- and 
oa emg et lucidis : arginibus spathula-shaped,-smooth, and shining: with 
scrblats, ‘suffruticibus, et pees, arbo- finely aceed | margins, pains and some- 
iet ramuli alterni, recti, ad times growing to a es 
basin nodosi, colore schisti: floribus fasci- large branches are airante and straight out, 
? ue quaternis, et cocci- knotty at the base, and of a slaty colour. 
neis : petalis concavis, quinque vel decem, Flowers grow in bunches mostly of four to- 
Floret in Martio et Aprili, gether, of a bright scarlet colour. 
tals are concave, and from five to ten in 
ee ‘number. Flowers in March and 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
- A petal. 
2 eee _2. The empalement, chives, and pointals, 
¥ Titus spread open, one tip magnified, 
4. Seed-bud and pointals, summit magnified. 
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Tuus handsome fruit-tree will Doabtlens soon become an object of general cultivation in this — 
from the brillia and duration of its done scarlet blossoms, It is — = but obs wal 
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* inched returned the genus back to its old standard, not through any a 
to alter, but abechate sy Be on | ~ Sesame 4 of its eae under the generic Bears 
Hieeatiod 
re het ddir ction of this fine plant we ton Gedebaed to the Hon. C. Greville, in whose 
Bie cg Mt first flowered, and from our figure was taken. 
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