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RAPHIOLEPIS indica. 
~ China Hawthorn or Raphiolepis. 
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ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosacEm. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex in- 
ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare. 
Arbores aut frutices. POMACER. 
RAPHIOLEPIS. Cal. infundibuliformis 5-dentatus deciduus. Fila- 
menta filiformia. Ovariwm (germen) biloculare. Pomum disco incrassato 
clausum, putamine chartaceo: semina dua gibbosa, testA coriacea crassis- 
sima. Frutex (Chine). Folia sempervirentia crenulata coriacea reticulata. 
Racemi terminales bracteis foliaceis persistentibus squamosi.. Lindley MSS. 
Raphiolepis indica. Lindley MSS. 
Crategus indica, Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 683. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1005. 
Loureiro cochin. 319, Curtis’s magaz. 17262 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 
203. 
Arbor magna, inermis ramis patentibus. Folia lanceolata, inequaliter 
serrata, glabra, alterna. Flos albus, corymbis racemosis, squamosis, ter- 
minalibus. Cal. superus, 5-fidus in senectute truncatus. Corolle petala 5, 
subrotunda, patentia. Stamina icosandra. Styli duo. Bacca calycina 
subrotunda, umbilicata, carnosa, 1-locularis, edulis: sem. 2-4, oblonga. 
Lignum rubescens, grave, tenax, aptissimum ad formandos remos, vel quos- 
libet palos, qui impulsi, vel pondere gravati, aliquantulum cedunt, nec 
franguntur. Lour. |. c. 
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Rapusonerrs is proposed by Mr. Lindley in an unpub- 
lished tract on Pomacea, the first section of Jussieu’s Order 
of Rosacrm. The character was kindly communicated to 
us from the author’s manuscript. 
The genus is distinguished from its coordinates of the 
same section by having a funnelform calyx, the whole . 
of which, down to where it adheres to the germen, falls 
off immediately after or at the same time with the petals 
of the flower; specially from Cratrmeus, where it has 
hitherto ranked, by a fruit-stone or putamen of a paper sub- 
stance, and from all other double-celled single-fruited 
coordinates by a seedcoat or testa of a leathery substance. 
The name (oe@ioy Aewis) has been suggested by the narrow 
bractes of the raceme, which in spontaneous specimens are 
sometimes found to have acquired a herbaceous or folia- 
ceous consistence, and are unlike any thing else in this 
order. 
