372 LI. ROSACEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriolotrya. 



and others -with E, dubia, but very distinct ; a mucli larger tree, 'with longer 

 broader petioled leaves vith slender petioles; the top of the ovary being voolly also 



-well distinguishes it. 



7. E« angrustissixnay HooTcJiL'^ quite glabrous, leaves erect 2-4 in. 

 very narrow linear-lanceolate narrowed into the short petiole obtuse remotely 

 serrate, panicle small glabrous. 



Khasia Mts. alt. 5000 ft. Simons ; Mooshye, and between Myrung and Nunklov, 

 Hook. f,^T. 



A very remarkable shrub, 4 ft. high, found by Thomson and myself in but two 

 spots, and there forming a low fastigiate brushwood on river banks, with stout dark 

 branches, and erect rigid leaves, not much exceeding \ in. in breadth; nerves 8-10 

 pair, ascending ; petiole slender, \ in. Panicles 1^ in. ; branches short, erect, gla- 

 brous. Flowers few, | in. diam. Calyx pubescent; tube short; lobes rounded. 

 Petals obovate or obcordate, claw woolly. Styles 3, slender, base and crown of ovary 

 woolly. 



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Petals quincuncial. Styles 5, 



8. E. elliptic a, Z/n^;/. in Trans. Linn. Sac. xiii. 102; very robust, leave* 

 petioled 6-10 in. obovate or oblong-lanceolate entire or coarsely serrate glabrous 

 Deneath, nerves about 20 pair, inflorescence densely clothed with soft spreading 

 wool, flowers sessile, styles 5, fruit small obovoid or globose. Wall. Cat 667. 

 E. japonica, /3. elliptica, Wenzig in Zinnia, 1874, 100. Mespilus Ouila, Sam. 

 in D<m Prodr. 238. 



Nepax, Wallich ; Mishmi Huxs, Griffith. 



Similar in many respects to E, japonica, but leaves much broader, glabrous be- 

 neath, with glabrous petioles 1-1^ in. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx-lobes 

 triangular. Petals orbicular, claw woolly. Styles 5, woolly to the top ; stigmas large, 

 spathulate, recurved. Griffith's specimens have fruit, which is nearly globose op- 

 wards of ^ in. diam. and 1 -seeded, 



9, E. Japonica, Lindl ; branches very robust, and leaves beneath and 

 inflorescence densely softly woolly, leaves subsessile narrowly oblanceolate acu- 

 minate remotely serrate woolly beneath, petiole very short, fruit ovoid larg« 

 intruded at the top. W. ^ Am. Prodr. 302 ; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suffl- 

 32 ; Wight Ic. t. 226. Mespilus japonica, Banks ; Roxb. Fl Ind. ii. 510. (The 

 Loquat.) 



Cultivated in many parts of India. 



Branchlets as thick as the little finger. x^t;i*c/co \}-o uj ± j-w x^., ^x*--- — - 

 coriaceous ; base obtuse or narrowed into the very short stout woolly petiole; nervfiB 

 12-15, very prominent beneath. Panicles 3-6 in. long and broad; branches "^^^^J^V 

 Flowers ^ in. diam., crowded, fragrant. Calyx-tube shovt ; lobes ovate, subacute. P^^^ 

 broadly ovate. Fruit l-\\ in. long, rathei "" ' "" 



seeded. 



tiffly 



narrower 



as 5 



larPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



E. iiACROCARPA, Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 443 ; evergreen, glabrous, leave* 

 5-6 in., from obovato to oblong-lanceolate shortly subobtusely acuminate quite en ^^ 

 narrowed into the stout J-| in. petiole coriaceous smooth glossy, fruit ^l^^S^^^lilua 

 of a bullet glabrous crowned with the calyx-limb, peduncle 1-3 in. stout simple gla^ro^ 

 axillary in the upper leaves of the thick branchlets. — Bibma, rare in forests on iN. 

 slopes of Kambala-toung ; and Pegu at Yomah, alt. 2-3000 ft., Kurz. 



20. PYSVS. Linn. 



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r^r 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves deciduous, sim 

 Flowers Tvliitfl red or pink, in terminal cyme 



deciduous. 



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