XXVI. ROSACEA! CRATE GUS. 369 
§54. C. Azardlus 
Sepals obtuse. Styles 1—3 Fruit globose, scarlet. Seeds usually two; 
and hence the name, common at Montpelier, pommettes a deux closes. (Dec. 
Prod.) A low tree, never found wild as a bush. South of France and 
Italy, in small woods and in rough places. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft ; in Eng- 
land 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1656. Flowers white; May and June. 
Fruit red; ripe in September. Leaves drop with the first frost, without 
much change of colour. 
Varieties. In the Nouveau Du Hamel, six varieties are enumerated, viz.:— 1. 
Meéspilus. Aronia, with the leaves hairy beneath ; 2. Azarole, with large deep 
red fruit ; 3. Azarole, with yellowish white fruit; 4. Azarole, with long 
fruit of a whitish yellow; 5. Azarole, with double flowers; and, 6. the 
White Azarole of Italy. With the exception of the first-mentioned, none 
of these varieties, as far as we know, are in British gardens. 
‘The fruit, when ripe, is mealy, and somewhat acid; and, in Italy and the 
Levant, it is occasionally sent to table. 
¥% 19. C. (A.) marocca‘na Pers. The Morocco Thorn. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p. 37.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 600. 
Synonymes. DeCandolle expresses a doubt whether C. matra Lin. fil. Sup. 253. be not a synonyme 
of this species; Sarrour, Arabian. . ; i 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., 1855. ; fig. 707. in p. 397.; the plate in Arb. Brit., Ist edit,, vol. vi.,; and 
our fig. 655. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves wedge-shaped, 3-lobed, and pinnatifid, glabrous, 
glandless. Stipules cut, rather palmately. Flowers upon long peduncles, 
in terminal glabrous corymbs. Sepals obtuse. Styles 2. (Dec. Prod.) A 
handsome pyramidal low tree, with dark-coloured branches. Palestine, on 
Mount Sinai and St. Catherine; and ? Morocco. Height 15 ft. to 35 ft. 
Flowers pure white, very fragrant ; May and June. Fruit scarlet ; ripe in 
October. 
Closely resembling C. Azardlus, but smaller in all its parts. It produces its 
leaves very early in the season, im mild winters even in January ; and it retains 
them very late. It is a small, but decided tree, and may be considered one 
of the handsomest species of the genus. Horticultural Society’s Garden 
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