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purpose. This has been brought to perfection in our coun- 
try, at Lord Bagot’s, where, we are told, it has been used 
in the dessert, and much liked for its peculiar but agreeable 
subacid flavour. Mr. Abel, who had eaten it in China, 
while in the suite of Lord Amherst, praises it as a delicacy. 
The drawing of the flowering branch was taken at Colonel 
Ansley’s, at Otto House, North End. The foliage is large 
and very ornamental. 
Stem round, branching, with a cinereously brown rimose 
or cracked bark: branches rather bare of leaves at their 
lower part, and somewhat scarred: branchlets scattered, 
near, spreading, covered with a rusty fur. Leaves large, 
scattered, near, recurvedly spreading, forming at the ends of 
the branches a kind of rose, petioled, stipulate, oblong 
oval, long pointed, sharply and widishly dentate at the up- — 
per part, tapered downwards with an entire reflex margin, — 
smooth at the upper surface, and covered with a cinereously 
rusty fur at the under, midrib with nerves branching from 
both its sides: petiole thick short: stipules 2, the length of 
the petiole, oval, longpointed, furred. Panicle terminal, 
short, bracteate, with alternate horizontal bracteate rusty— 
furred spikelets: flowers sessile, closish, bracteate, white, — 
larger than those of the Hawthorn, odorous. Bractes oyal, 
sharp-pointed, concave, with a ferruginous fur on the out- 
side; those of the panicle fascicled, of the spikelets solitar 
and horizontal, of the flowers in threes and close-pressed to 
the calyx. Calyx thick, campanulate, half the length of the 
.corolla, ferrugiously furred below, adnate to the germen. 
above green smooth and stellately spreading. Petals rosace. 
ously expanded, obovate, unguiculate, crenulated at the 
edge, striate on the inside and villous. Germen shageily 
furred. The fruit is a yellow apple, with from one to five 
one-seeded cells. 
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