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PYRUS floribunda. 
Many-flowered Aronia. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomace*. Rich. Lindl. Rosacearum, sect. 1. Juss. gen. 
Tribus VIII. Dec. prodr. 
P YR US. SuprA, vol. 8 .fol. 651. 
Sect. Aronia Nob. (Adenorachis Decand. prodr. 2. 637.) 
P. floribunda; foliis obovato-lanceolatis argute crenulatis costa glandulosS.: 
subtds ramis pedicellis calycibusque dens& tomentosis, corymbis multi- 
floris, pomis nigris sphaericis pedicellisque glabris, ramis reclinatis. 
Frutex, ramis adultis cinereis, Icevibus, novellis tomentosis. Folia obovato- 
ianceolata, argute crenulata, suprd glabra, costd glandulosd, junioribus ob- 
tusis subtiis densh tomentosis ; adultis subtus undigue pubescentibus, acuminatis. 
Venae inconspicuee, subcequales, primaries patentes, rectiuscule, quandoque 
bifurcce, arcuatee abruptb inflexce, extemae hinc cum primariis continue 
elongates; venulae propriae subparallele, transverse, communes reticulate. 
Corymbi c opiosissimi, multiflori, foliis longiores, pedicellis calycibusque 
undique tomento densissimb vestitis. Flores albi; petalis concavis integris. 
Antherae inaperte rosee. Styli semper 5, glabriusculi. Poma fere tot quot 
Jlores, pisi majoris magnitudine, spherica, glabra, atro-purpurea, acerba, 
calyce parvo staminibusque persistentibus coronata. 
So many different plants are to be found either in 
gardens or herbaria, to which the definitions of the Pyrus 
arbutifolia and P. melanocarpa of authors are applicable, 
that we know not on which of those many kinds to fix 
those names. Without attempting to enter into any 
critical examination of this point, we may be here per¬ 
mitted to distinguish this species at least as a very distinct 
fotm from any to which the name of Pyrus arbutifolia can 
be applied. In the downiness of its leaves and calyces it 
agrees with that plant, but in the colour of its fruit it 
resembles P. melanocarpa; in habit, it is in a manner 
intermediate between the two; and in its peculiar charac¬ 
ters very distinct from both. 
