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linear. Calyx-tube urceolate turbinate or obconic, lobes 5 erect or reflexed, per- 

 Bistent or deciduous. I^etals 6, quincuncially imbricate in bud. Stamem 20 or 

 more, filaments sometimes connate at the base. Disk annular, or coating the 

 ^yx"tube. Cm-pels 2-6, connate and adnate to the calyx-tube, styles 2-5, free 

 or connate below^ stigmas truncate ; ovules 2 in each -cell, basal, collateral, 

 ascending. Fruit (a pome) fleshy, 2-5-celled ; cells with a membranous or car- 

 tilaginous often 2-Yalved endocarp, 1-2-seeded. Seeds when in pairs plano- 

 convex, testa coriaceous: cotyledons amygdaloid, — DisiiOB. N. temp, and cold 

 r^egions ; species 40. 



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oECT. I. IlKaluB. Leaves entire. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles more or less 

 united below. Fruit globose ; flesh of imiform consistence ; endocarp coriaceous 

 or Uke parchment.— Flowers fascicled or subumbellate. 



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- ■■I- P- Malus, Linn. ; Ledeb. FL Boss. ii. 96; leaves ovate shortly acumi- 

 ^late crenate glabrous above tomentose beneath, calyx densely tomentose lobes 

 persistent, petals pink, fruit large very shortly peduncled. JRoxb. Fl/ Jnd. ii. 

 ^1 ; Brandts Far. FL 205 ; Wall. Cat. 7111. Malus communis, Desf. ; Boiss. 

 J^t^ Orient, ii. 656; Dene. Mem. Fa7n. Pom. 153. 



11 ApP^^^^% "^Id in the Nohth Western Himalata, ascending to 9000 ft., and to 

 ^400 in Western Tibet; cultivated in N, W. India, Central India, the Dekkan, 

 *c, DisTRtB. from Persia westwards to the Mediterranean. 



V A tree, rarely exceeding 30 ft. Branches and foliage at length glabrous. Leaves 

 ^^in.; petiole half the length of the blade, tomentose or woolly. Flowers lJ-2 in. 

 ^^. Calyx-lobes broad-ovate, acute, persistent. Petals with a tomentose claw. 

 yf«s5, muted below the middle. i^rweY globose, intruded at both ends. 



^. 2. P. baccata, Linn. ; Ledeb. FL Ross. ii. 97 ; leaves elliptic-ovate acu- 

 "^ate serrulate glabrous, calyx glabrous, peduncles very long, petals white, fruit 

 ^U globose. P. baccata v. himalaica, Maxim. Diag. Dec. xv, 167 ; Wmzig 

 I ^^^a, 1874, 44 ; Brandis For. Fl. 205 ; Wall. Cat. 681. Malus baccata, 

 . «»/• ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Porn. 154. (The Siberian Crab.) 



^Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-10,000 ft. (sometimes 

 i^wvated), and in Bhotak, alt. 7500 ft., Griffith. Khasia Mrs., alt. 6000 ft.— 

 ^/IB. Siberia to Manchuria, 

 yoim *?. ^ *'"®®' *^°^ s^°^*^' ^e^^ rounded. Leaves 2-Z\n., rarely almost orticular, 



ejected on a short peduncTeT'Vedicels' s"le^er7'2-3 in. Cdyx glabrous or pubenilous 



blad '' ", ""^ or as well as tne petiole puoesc 



?^e. i'fotters li-2 in. diam.. in sessile umbels 



!-3 in. Caly. ^ - • , , • 



WrC '^""*°'^'ini within ; lo))es lanceolate, deciduous. Petals very variable m 

 diam J ^*y^^ ^~5, nearly free, very woolly at their united bases. Fruit ^-1 m. 

 theTl' '^ or scarlet, intruded at the base.— The fruit of this is much smaller than m 

 Fin,??"*"" ^°™ of the plant, and often subpyriform like that figured in Pallas 



'ora Bossica, i. t. x. 



^^' ^. Bikklmensis, Hooh.f.x leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate acumi- 

 le aaw„i.. . . -^ .. pg(J^ncles very long, fruit small 



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"^iM Himalaya, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. K Bhotan, Griffith. 

 acutfii ^ ^i^ilar to P. baccata, but the leaves (which attain 5 by 3 in.) are more 

 clea^^,^®^ate, woolly beneath and on the petiole and on the midrib above, the pedun- 

 (of Ml ^^^^^ ^® ^Iso very woolly. It is marked by Decaisne as a distinct species 

 ii ^?,ii^)' b^t I suspect it will prove a form of P. baccata. The claw of the petals 

 Wo**fC ' the limb broadly obovate-oblong or almost orbicular ; the styles are united 

 . w Uie middle into a perfectly glabrous column; the calyx-lobes deciduous; the 



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