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HOVENIA. acerba. 
Crab Hovenia. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOQGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. RHAMNI (RHAMNER). Jussieu gen. 376. Div. IV. Sta- 
mina petalis opposita. Fructus tricoccus. 
HOVENIA. Cal.5-fidus. Petala 5 convoluta. Stamina petalis ob- 
voluta. Stylus 1; stigmata 3. Caps. pisiformis 3-sulca 3-locularis 3-valvis 
3-sperma, basi calycis persistente infra cincta. (Sem. in loculamento unicum, 
glaberrimum, rubrum). Arbor; folia alterna (stipulacea?); pedunculi axil- 
lares ct terminales dichotomi multiflori, apice post florescentiam divaricati, 
incrassatt et carnost edules sapore dulci, pedicellis brevibus linearibus uni- 
floris, flores caduci, interdim 4-petali 4-andri. Juss. loc. cit. 881. 
Hovenia acerba, foliis opacis pubescentibus integerrimis. Lindley MSS. 
Arbuscula gracilis ramis virgatis divaricatis. Folia ovato-lanceolata, 
acuminata, integerrima, opaca, pauld rugosa, utrinque pubescentia, subtis 
glaucescentia. Flores ....-.... Fructis ruber € pedunculis incrassatis, 
SLOVENI& dulcis multoties minor, sapore acerbo. Lindley MSS. ¢ 
“For this unpublished species of Hovenia we are 
obliged to Mr. Lambert, in whose greenhouse at Boyton, it 
flowered last spring. The fruit (see the detached figure of 
it in the annexed plate) of which only a single sample had 
ripened in August, has an austere flavour very unlike that 
of Hovenia dulcis, which is reported to be exceedingly 
grateful and similar in taste to a Bergamot Pear.” 
“There is some uncertainty about the native country of 
the present species. Mr. Lambert’s plant is supposed to have 
been raised from fruit introduced from California. But we ~ 
should rather consider it a native of the East Indies or 
China, both which countries produce Hoventa dulcis; we 
have also noticed in Mr. Cattley’s hothouse at Barnet, 
young plants of an Hovenia probably not essentially distinct 
from our present subject, and the seeds from which they 
have been raised were undoubtedly received from Calcutta.” 
Lindley MSS. 
In the above observations the term fruit is used, not in 
the technical or restricted signification of seedvessel, but 
in its more general sense, when applied to the esculent part 
of a plant, which in this genus happens to be the forked 
