178 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
alternate, leathery, stalked leaves, and white or red flowers in racemes or 
panicles. The calyx is funnel-shaped, with five awl-shaped lobes, which 
fall away when the flower withers. The petals are clawed, five in 
number, oblong; stamens numerous. Fruit, a pulpy berry, with one or 
two cells. They are natives of China and J apan. 
Srhaeinl Spiacios RHAPHIOLEPIS INDICA (Indian). Indian Hawthorn. 
‘A half-hardy shrub, 4 feet high, with egg-shaped or 
lance-shaped leaves. Flowers white or pinkish, as large as those of 
Crategus Oxyacantha, in short, terminal panicles ; February to August. 
Introduced from China (1806). There are several varieties which 
are usually regarded in our greenhouses as distinct species; rubra 
has reddish flowers; phcostemon has white flowers with brown 
stamens; salicifolia has white flowers and slender lance - shaped, 
willow-like leaves, 
Ru. JAPONICA (Japanese), Hardy shrub, 6 to 10 feet high, with 
glossy, dark green, oval leaves apparently in whorls at the ends of the 
branches. Flowers pure white, 3-inch across, fragrant, in erect terminal 
panicles; June, Introduced from J apan (1865). 
Gulitvailen, Rhaphiolepis should be grown in a compost of loam, 
evere weather to cover it with mats, The J apanese 
S well as singly. Either species may be pro- 
pagated from cuttings, which are made from the ripened wood, and 
struck in sand under a bell-glass, 
AMELANCHIERS 
Natural Order Rosacrz. Genus Amelanchier 
AMELANCHTER (the name applied to the Medlar in Savoy). A genus 
of four or five species of hardy shrubs or small trees, with alternate, 
deciduous, toothed leaves, and White flowers in racemes. The lobes 
. = —. do not fall off as in Rhaphiolepis, and the fruit is three- 
: ve-ce led. © species are natives of the Mediterranean sha a 
apan, and North America, 4. vulgaris has been grown in British 
oe for at least three hundred years; and is esteemed for the fine 
sae toe flowers in spring and the autumnal tints of its foliage, 
re than for its edible, though not particularly palatable, fruit. 
