CROWEA LATIFOLIA. 
(Broad-leaved Cvowpa.) 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACEtE. 
Generic Character.— Calyx five-parted, persistent. 
Petals five, sessile. Stamens ten, shorter than the 
petals, flat, subulate, connected by entangled hairs. 
Anthers oblong, cordate, united lengthwise to the 
filaments on their inner side, and terminated by a 
long beard. Ovaries five, united. Style from the base 
of the ovary, five-furrowed. Stigma five-furrowed. 
Capsules five, joined. Carpels one-seeded. Seeds with 
an arillus. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Branches three-angled. Leaves alternate, ovate- lan- 
ceolate, entire, covered with pellucid dots. Peduncles 
axillary, one-flowered, having minute bracts at their 
base. Flowers rosy pink. 
There are only two species known of this fine genus, and both are very 
handsome. C. saligna was introduced in 1790, and figured in the ''Botanical 
Magazine," t. 989 : the present subject, C. latifolia, is the finest of the two, and was 
cultivated in this country so long ago as 1824, but has remained so scarce, that even 
at the present time, it is met with in very few collections. Both are natives of New 
Holland, and therefore require the shelter of a dry and airy greenhouse, where they 
continue in flower nearly the whole of the year. 
In cultivation, use light and porous soil, containing plenty of fibre ; lay abundance 
of crocks for drainage ; use moderate-sized pots in potting ; syringe and water freely 
during summer, but administer water cautiously in winter, and place the plants near 
the glass in as light and airy a situation as possible, following exactly the directions 
given for the culture of the various genera of the tribe Boroniea. 
Our drawing of this beautiful plant was made in the nursery of Messrs. Rollissons, 
of Tooting, in the summer of 1846. 
The genus was founded by Dr. Smith, and is named in honour of his friend 
James Crowe, Esq., of Norwich, an excellent British botanist, and a great collector 
of Willows. 
Kutaceous plants are rather numerous — consisting, according to Dr. Lindley's 
" Vegetable Kingdom," of forty-seven genera — they are all remarkable for emitting 
a powerful odour, which in some cases becomes unpleasant, as in the Bucku 
plants {Baryosma) of the Cape. This aromatic principle is in combination with 
