RAPHIO'LEPIS IN'DICA. 
INDIAN HAWTHORN. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
Order 
DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACE.®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
China. 
4 feet. 
Feb. to Aug 
Shrub. 
in 180(5. 
No. 802. 
The generic name, Raphiolepis, is compounded 
of the Greek words raphis, a needle, and lepis, a 
scale, to designate the character of the bracteas, or 
little awl-like scales, which will be seen on the 
peduncles, beneath the flowers. 
In the nurseries, a shrub is always to be met 
with under the name Snowy Mespilus; and by 
which the Mespilus Canadensis of Linneus, or 
Amelanchier botryapium of modern botanists, w as 
formerly intended. But of late, it appears, that 
some nurserymen have given the name Snowy 
Mespilus to the plant before us, which was long 
known as Crataegus Indica, from its having been 
published in the Botanical Magazine under this 
title. That these shrubs may be clearly distin- 
guished, we will publish the Amelanchier in ques- 
tion, to guard our friends, as far as we are able, from 
disappointment through this confusion of names. 
As a standard, this shrub forms a light and airy 
head, and its abundant racemes of delicately white 
flowers, in spring, produce a very pleasing effect in 
the shrubbery. It may be propagated by budding 
or grafting it on the hawthorn or quince. 
Don's Syst. Bot.2, 601. 
