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LI. ROSACEA. (J. D. Hooker.) 



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V A shrub, branchlets as thick as a s-vran*s quill. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 1 J-lJ in. 



diam.; margins revolute (in drying?), perfectly glabrous, hardly shining above ; pe- 



twle ^ m. Panicles 4-5 in. long, glabrate; branches rather slender, F/ow^s shortly 



pedicelled, white. C^/'^^rappressed-pubescent, tube obconic; limb^ in, diam, ; lobes 



^?^^Iar, obtuse, glabrous within. Petals cochleate, claw glabrous. Styles 2, the 



united part pubescent. — I have not seen the petals, which Decaisne describes ; he 



mors it to Photinia, but the habit foliage and inflorescence are altogether those of 

 ^rmotrya, 



vw 4. E. Kookeriana, Dene, Mem. Fam. Pom. 146 ; robust, leaves 8-12 in. 

 veiy shortly and stoutly petioled elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate sharply 

 coarsely serrate, more or less pubescent beneath, nerves 20-30 pair, panicle tomen- 

 tose, branches spreading. Photinia subsessiiis, King in Herb, Cale. 



^- ^Eastern Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 6500-8000 it,,J.D. H. Bhotan. alt. 4-6500 ft. 



^ small tree., with very stout branches. Leaves 8-12 by 2-4J in., when young 

 thickly covered with rusty tomentose, old glabrate or glabrous, very thickly coria- 

 ceous, opaque above with impressed close-set nerves, serrated nearly to the truncate 

 rounded or subacute base ; petiole i-J in., very thick; stipiiles semi-lunate, very co- 

 ^eous. ^ Panicle 4-6 in. and as broad, finely softly tomentose, almost wooUy. 

 'fhwersi in- diam., white; bracts small, ovate; pedicels short, stout. Calyx-tube 

 soortly obconic; lobes rounded, obtuse. Petals contorted, orbicular, claw woolly. 

 ^W^ 2, base woolly. Fruit | in. long, ellipsoid, yellow. 



5. E.^dubia, Dene, Mem. Fam. Pom, 146, excl, somesyn, ; rather slender, 

 leaves 3-5 in. shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate 

 qmte glabrous shining above coarsely sharply serrate, nerves 10-12 pair, panicle 

 ^^ftly tomentose or only puterulo us, crown of ovary glabrous. Photinia? dubia, 

 :^dl in Tram, Linn, Soe. xiii. 104, 1. 10 ; Wall, Cat, 668, 1. P. dubia, Wen- 

 ^tnLinncea, 1874, 94, exel synonym. Crataegus ? Shicola, Ham. in Don 

 ^odr. 238. Mespilus tinctoria, Dan Prodr. 238. 



% Central and Eastern Himalaya : Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 5-6000 ft., J, D. K 

 ^^20TAN alt. 4000 ft, Griffith. 



A small tree, 20-40 ft. Leaves thinly coriaceous, not exceeding 1 J in. broad, 

 l^dually narrowed at the base into the petiole, which is slender and J-^in. Panicles 

 ^^ m. long and broad ; branches rather slender. Flowers not crowded, ^ in. diam., 

 rati ^^^^^y Pedicelled ; bracts short, subulate. Calyx-tube short, obconic ; lobes 

 2 ^^®^^'ariable, short, acute or obtuse. Petals orbicular, claw slightly woolly. Styles 

 sll^^i ^°®' on the short hemispheric glabrous top of the ovary. Fruit ^ in long, 

 jorUy ellipsoid, 1-seeded. eatable. 



eHi^+i**' bengralensis, Hoohf,; rather stout, leaves 4-8 in. long-petioled 

 ^ptic or elliptic oblong or lanceolate acuminate coarsely obtusely serrate or lobu- 

 ^qiute glabrous shining above,nerves 8-12 pair, panicle softly tomentose, crown 

 LW ^^^l^y- E. dubia, Dene. Me^n. Pom, 145, in paH ; Kurz, For, Fl, 

 5ln i''^'^' ^*^- Mespilus bengalensis, Roxb. Cat, Hort, Beng, 38 ; Fl. Ind. n. 

 '"• Photinia dubia, Wall, Cat. 668, 2, 3,. 4, and E. 



hillJ^^t®^ Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 4000 ft., C, B. Clarice, Khasia Mts. and Muku 

 gjlf*^' 3-4000 ft. Chittagong, Ava. Wallich] Tenassehim, Heifer; Malacca, 



r?' ■^«"'5'«y.— DisTRiB. Bhamo. 

 oKtiT ^S® ^^^"st tree. Leaves often 2A and sometimes SJ m. broad, sometimes acute, 



ggse or rounded with ' " '^ ' 



lobules or crenatures ; petiole stout or slender, J-lJ in., 



atonv r. -P«ww^/e« 3-5 in. long and broad, branched from the base, branches rather 



¥^t ^^^^^ i in. diam., white, smelling of hawthorn. Calyx-tube obcomc ; lobes 



fvJ^ ?'. obtuse. Petals orbicular, claw slightly woolly. Styles 2, base very wooUy. 



^t m.loDg, ellipsoid, 1-2-seeded, uneatable.— Confounded by WaUich, myself, 



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