374 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
The leaves and calyxes are covered on both sides with long hairs. The 
globular slightly compressed fruit has somewhat the appearance of being 
ribbed like a melon ; is larger than that of any other species of the genus, ex- 
cept C. Arénia and C. mexicana; greenish yellow when ripe ; and easily dis- 
tinguishable by the bracteas generally adhering to it. The foliage is the latest 
in appearing of any of the species, except C. orientalis, frequently equally late. 
§ xi. Heterophylia. 
Sect. Char. Leaves cuneate, and sub-persistent. Fruit long, middle-sized, 
and crimson. 
*% 23. C. nETEROPHY’LLA Flugge. The various-leaved Thorn. 
Identification. Flugge Ann. Mus., 12. p. 423, t. 38.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.629.; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 600. ; 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1847. 
Synonymes. C.neapolitana Hort. : 
Engravings. Ann. Mus., 12, t. 38.; Bot. Reg., t. 1161. and t. 1847.; Ag. 713. in p. 399.; the plate 
in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi. ; and our /ig. 661. 
661. C. heterophylla. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves bright, falling off late, lanceolate-cuneate, toothed 
at the apex, 3-cleft; segments serrate. Tube of the calyx fusiform. Cymes 
many-flowered. Flowers 1-styled. Fruit ovate, including one nut, with a 
hard bony shell, and one seed. Stipules large, pinnatifid. (Lindl.) A low 
trec, with ascending branches. Native country uncertain, most probably 
the South of Europe; possibly a hybrid between the common hawthorn, 
and the azarole, or some other species. Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Cultivated 
in 1816. Flowers white, produced in great abundance; May. Fruit rich 
crimson, resembling in shape that of the common hawthorn, but narrower ; 
ripe in September and October. 
A very handsome and most desirable species; producing its leaves and 
flowers early in the spring, and retaining its leaves and fruit till the first 
autumnal frosts. 
