Rosacee—Photinia. £77 
China, Japan, and California. Name from dwrtewvos, shining, 
from the laurel-like foliage. Handsome shrubs, requiring pro- 
tection in very severe weather. 
1. Ph. serrulata, syn. Crat&égus glabra.—A handsome shrub 
with large Laurel-like coriaceous leaves and terminal flat 
corymbs of small white flowers. A native of China and Japan. 
2. Ph. arbutifolia, syn. Cratégus arbutifolia.—As the name 
implies, the foliage of this closely resembles that of the common 
Arbutus. The flowers are larger, in an elongated panicle, and 
the petioles and young branches bright red. This is a native 
of California. 
3. Ph. Japonica, syn. Eriobdtrya Japénica. Loquat.— 
Leaves large, oblong, rugose, downy beneath. Flowers white, 
appearing in November. Fruit about the size of a small apple, 
pale orange-red, rarely produced in the open air in England, 
even against a wall. The fruit is edible, and grown in con- 
siderable quantities in the South of France. Anative of China 
and Japan. 
13. RAPHIOLEPIS, 
Evergreen shrubs or trees with simple coriaceous leaves and 
white or pink flowers. Calyx-limb deciduous. Berry pulpy, 
l- or 2-celled, 1- or 2-seeded. A small genus of about five 
species from Japan and China, closely allied to Photinia. 
Name from fad¢is, a needle, and Aeris, a scale, referring to the 
slender bracts. 
1. &. ovdta.—A handsome shrub with glossy dark green 
oval or obovate leaves crowded at the end of the branches. 
Flowers white, fragrant, about eight lines in diameter, arranged 
in large terminal thyrsoid panicles. Japan. 
14, AMBLANCHIER. 
Small trees or shrubs with alternate simple deciduous leaves 
and white racemose flowers. Calyx urceolate ; lobes persistent. 
Berry imperfectly 4- to 10-celled; cells 1-seeded. Only. four 
species are known, but they are widely dispersed, occurring 
in the Mediterranean region, Japan, and North America. 
Amelanchier is the Savoy name of the Medlar. A. vulgiris 
and A. Canadénsis with their varieties are elegant small 
trees with oblong, oval or nearly orbicular toothed leaves 
and white racemose flowers in early Spring. Some of the 
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