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-t' 370 LI. KOSACE^. (J.D.Hooker.) [Eriohotrya. 



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19. ERZOBOTSITA, Lindl. 



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Small or large trees. 



trees. Leaves simple, entire or serrate, very coriaceous ; 

 stipules lanceolate or broad. Floivers in thyrsoid panicles, white, Calyx-^ 

 tube tui'Liuate obconic or clavate ; lobes small, erect or spreading, persistent. 

 Petals 6, contorted or imbricate in bud, obovate or orbicular, usually ob- 

 lique and notched, margins sinuate, claw glabrous or woolly. Ovary 2-5-celled ; 

 styles 5, connate and woolly below ; ovules 2 in each cell, basal, ascending, pla- 

 centa sometimes cupuliform. Fruit a succulent or dry rarely 1-2-celled berry; ' 

 endocarp membranous, 1- rarely 2-3-seeded. Seeds large, ovoid and cylindric or 

 flattened on one side, testa hard coriaceous and mucilaginous ; cotyledons very 

 thick.^DiSTRiB. Himalaya, Malay Peninsida, Cliina, Japan, 



, I cannot distinguish Eriobotrya from Fhotinia, except by the inflorescence ; all the 

 other characters given by Decaisne break down amongst the species enumerated 

 under it; thus the petals are contorted in all but elliptica ond Japomca, and their 

 claws are glabrous in several ; the styles are only two in all but the above, and one 

 other, which has 3 styles ; the crown of the ovary is glabrous in E. dtihia^ and I do 

 not find the calyptriform process of the placenta in any h\xt j aponica \ but I have uxoi 

 examined all for this character, and it is one difficult to detect in dry specimens. 



bud. Styles 2 or 3. 



1. E. petiolata, Hook./.] robust, leaves 6-9 in. long-petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate thickly coriaceous entire or obtusely seiTate glabrous be- 

 neath, nerves 12-14 pair, inflorescence clothed with appressed tomentiim? 

 flowers pedicelled, calyx-lobes rounded, styles 2. E. elliptica, Serb. Ind. Or. -o- 

 f, Sr T. ; Dene, Mem, Fam. Pom, 145 m nart. 





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Eastern Himalaya; Sikkim, alt. 6-9000 ft. Bhotan at Tongsa, Griffith.^ 

 A tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 6-9 by 2-^ in.; case 

 acute; petiole U~2 in. Panicles 3-6 in. long and broad, branched from the base, very 

 spreading, clothed with rusty tomentum as are the very young leaves on both sur- 

 faces. Flowers J in. diam., not crowded, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube short, o^ 

 conic; lobes also short, semicircular. Petals contorted, orbicular, concave, cla 

 glabrous. — Misled by the provisional naming of the Indian collections disti^ 

 buted by Dr. Thomson and m^^eli, Decaisne has included this under E, elUpu:^^ 

 from which it differs entirely in the longer petioles, appressed almost scurfy tome ' 

 turn of the panicle and form of calyx. ; '* 



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2. E. latifolla, Hook, f, ; stout, leaves 6-8 in. long-petioled Dijauv 

 elliptic acute at both ends quite entire glabrous above beneath with deciau 

 tomentum, nerves 10-12 pair, panicle softly tomentose. 



MoALMAYNE ; on Thoung Gyne, alt. 5000 ft., Thos. Lobb, jta 



A shrub, 12 ft. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 3-4 in. broad, opaque above, q^^^ 

 glabrous beneath when old, without A trace of serratures, narrowed into tne ^^ 

 petiole which is 1^-2 in. long, ^ and glabrous except the young leaves ^.^1^ g^y 

 softly woolly. Pajiicle 6 in. long and as broad, much branched, clothed witn ^^^ 

 pubescence. Flowers ^ in. diam., crowded. Calyx-tube broadly ^^^^^^^'/.o 

 rounded. Petals contorted, broadly obovate or orbicular, claw glabrous. i^^V^^ 



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S. B. lonirifolia, Hook.f. ; rotust, leayes 7-10 in. shortly F^i^'^^ 



owly olalanceolate acuminate quite entire narrowed into the petiole, n^^?^ ^Tini. 

 pair almost horizontal, panicle glahrate. Photinia longifolia. Dene. Mem. J 



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