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-RAPHIOLEPIS saalicifolia. 
Wrllow-leaved Raphiolepis. 
ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosackm. Jussieu gen. $34. Div. I. Germen simplex infe- 
rum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare, 
Arbores aut frutices. PPOMACER. : 
RAPHIOLEPIS. Supra vol. 6. fol. 468. 
R. salicifolia, foliis elongato-lanceolatis, panicula subeorymboso-fastigiante, 
petalis dentes calycis ‘equantibus, staminibus coarctatis calyce aliquo- 
tiés brevioribus. 
Arbuscula. Rami teretes; juniores subrubentes, graciles. Folia ovali- 
elongata, utrinque attenuata, @qualitér serrata. Cal. virescens, dentibus 
subulatis corollam subequantibus.  Racemus paniculatus, ranulis subcorym- 
boso-fastigiantibus. Flores albi; petala lanceolata. Stamina alba, brevia, 
congesto-fasciculata, erecta. 
** Rapuioteris has been established upon the Cratra/aus 
indica of Linnzus (see vol. 6. fol. 468 of this Register) 
a name which seems to have been applied to several plants 
sufficiently different from each other to’ be considered 
distinct species, and not agreeing among themselves in 
_ character more than the species of a natural genus are 
** expected to do. What the precise plant may have been 
which Linnzeus intended by Crarmaus indica, it is not 
now perhaps very easy to determine. Loureiro, who first 
distinguished two species, ascribes to his Crarzaus indica 
roundish petals, and to his Crarzeus rubra lanceolate 
petals. Of the former there are specimens in Sir Joseph 
Banks’s Herbarium, brought from Macao by Mr. Henry 
Bradley; but, we believe, not in the gardens of this 
country. The plant we have now before us (Mr. Lindley, 
we have little hesitation in considering the latter.. At 
least, we are persuaded that Loureiro had either this plant 
in view, or a nearly related species, which we shall pre- 
sently have occasion to notice. Besides these, we believe 
there are several plants in the collections about London, 
which will constitute as many distinct species. Among 
“them may certainly be included a shrub imported from 
“VOL, VIII. Pp . 
whom we are quoting, speaks of his Rapuioteris rubra) — 
