Class. 
DECANDRIA, 
CROWEA LATIFOLIA. 
(Broad-leaved Cvowea.) 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RUTACEiE. 
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 wi| 
an arillus. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shru 
Branches three-angled. Leaves alternate, ovate-la 
ceolate, entire, covered with pellucid dots. Peduncl 
axillary, one-flowered, having minute bracts at the 
base. Flowers rosy pink. 
There are only two species known of this fine genus, and both are vei 
handsome. C. saligna was introduced in 1790, and figured in the “Botanic* 
Magazine,” t. 989 : the present subject, C. latifolia, is the finest of the two, and wa 
cultivated in this country so long ago as 1824, but has remained so scarce, that eve 
at the present time, it is met with in very few collections. Both are natives of Nil 
Holland, and therefore require the shelter of a dry and airy greenhouse, where the 
continue in flower nearly the whole of the year. 
In cultivation, use light and porous soil, containing plenty of fibre ; lay abundanc 
of crocks for drainage ; use moderate-sized pots in potting ; syringe and water freel 
during summer, hut administer water cautiously in winter, and place the plants nea 
the glass in as light and airy a situation as possible, following exactly the direction 
given for the culture of the various genera of the tribe Boroniecs. 
Our drawing of this beautiful plant was made in the nursery of Messrs. Rollissom 
of Tooting, in the summer of 1846. 
The genus was founded by Dr. Smith, and is named in honour of his frien 
James Crowe, Esq., of Norwich, an excellent British botanist, and a great collecto 
of Willows. 
Rutaceous plants are rather numerous — consisting, according to Dr. Lindley 
“ Vegetable Kingdom,” of forty-seven genera — -they are all remarkable for emittin 
a powerful odour, which in some cases becomes unpleasant, as in the Bucki 
plants ( Baryosma ) of the Cape. This aromatic principle is in combination wit] 
