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CYDONIA Chinensis. 
; Wahilere Quince. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
cua. Styli infra medium lana densa coherentes. Lindley in Linn. Trans. 
13.97. r . ets 
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_C. Chinensis ; foliis ovalibus argute serratis utrinque acutis complicatis subtis 
tomentosis. 
_C. Chinensis. Thowin. Ann. mus, 19.145. Link. enum. ber. 239. 
~ ___ Ramuli pilost, tandem glabri. Folia petiolata, stipulata, coriacea, ovalia, 
__-utringue acuta, arguté serrata, semi-complicata, supra viridia, lucida, 
__ sepius rubro tincta, subtds tomentosa, petiolo tomentoso supra canaliculato, 
serie duplici glandularum ; stipulee pallide, glanduloso-dentate, petioli lon- 
_ gitudine, 3-partite, lobo medio erecto ovato, lateralibus patentibus basi extis 
auriculatis.. Flores terminales, solitarii. Ovarium Susiforme, glabrum, sepe 
supra medium bracteatum. Calyx quinquepartitus, reflexus, intis tomen- 
tosus; laciniis subulatis, apice glanduloso-serratis. Petala patentia, breviter 
unguiculata, oblonga, rosea. Styli 5, bast connati. Stigmata capitata. 
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This curious species of Quince appears, from a paper 
of the late M. Thouin’s, published in the nineteenth volume 
of the Annales du Muséum, to have been in existence in 
England so long ago as the end of the last century. It 
does not, however, appear to have obtained the notice of 
any scientific work in this country, or to have been much 
known even upon the continent. We first saw it, some 
years since, in the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co., 
at Fulham; and it was in that establishment that the 
_ figure for our plate was taken, in March last. 
A handsome, hardy, small tree, or large shrub, pushing 
forth its leaves in the earliest spring, and frequently 
damaged by subsequent frosts. In warm situations it 
would probably be nearly evergreen; exposed to the full 
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