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PYRUSS sinsdsum 
The Chinese Pear. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PowaAcEx. Juss. Eindley’s synops. 103. 
PYRUS. — Suprà, vol. 6. fol. 514. 
P. chinensis; foliis cordatis apiculatis lucidis serratis : junioribus subtús 
pubescentibus, pedunculis corymbosis, calycibus intüs glabris, fructu 
verrucoso osseo. 
Ri vulgò Nas. Pyrus sativa fructu magno duro. Kempf. amen. 800. 
Pyrus communis. ' Lour. fl. Cochin Ch. p. 321. 
Pyrus sinensis. Lindley in hort. trans. 6. 396. Hort. soc. fruit catalogue, 
. 154. 
yt Pyri communis similis; differt tamen ramis validioribus pallidè 
viridibus demüm fusco-viridibus, foliis majoribus lucidis fer? semper- 
virentibus, fructibus austeris pomiformibus verrucosis osseis, calyce demüm 
intùs semper glabro nec lanuginoso. 
This, the Chinese Pear, Sandy Pear, or Snow Pear, as 
it is indiscriminately called, is a species at present very 
little known in Europe. It is a native of China, whence it 
was originally introduced by the Horticultural Society in 
the year 1820, on board the Cornwall, Captain John 
Peter Wilson. 
It differs from the European Pear in having longer and 
greener branches; larger, more lucid, and almost ever- 
green leaves; insipid, apple-shaped, warted, very gritty 
fruit; and a calyx, the inside of which is destitute of the 
down that is found in all the varieties of the European 
Pear. 
The Chinese call it the Sandy Pear, in consequence of 
the grittiness of its fruit, which is occasionally ripened in 
* See fol. 1196. 
