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stamens about 25 ; the fruit speckled and very good stewed.— The specks on the fruit 

 are like those of P. variolosa, but smaller, 



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Leaves entire. 



3T. II. Pyrus proper. 



5-celled ; styles free. Fruit globose or pyriform, flesh granular 

 ■flowered corymbs. 



Petals white, claw glabrous. 



—Flowers 



commanis 



Orient, ii, 653: leaves oblong 



short, calyx-lobes ovate or lanceolate persistent, fruit pyriform. Boxb. iL Irui. 

 ii. 510 ; Brandts Fo7\ FL 203. (The Common Pear.) 



Believed to be wild in Kash^hr (Brandis) ; cultivated in the N. W. Himalaya, 

 alt, 2-8000 ft., and in Western Tibet to alt. 10,000 ft.— Distrib. N. Persia west- 

 ward to S. Europe, 



'irub, glabrous or with woolly young parts and inflorescence, you^ 



Leaves variable in breadth and in length of point, of young pi^ 



^ Corymbs terminating short shoots. Flowers 1^ in. diam. ^fF' Tl 



- ' Fruit 1-2 inches, gradually narrowed into ine 



often spinous, 

 lobed. 



variable. 



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peduncle. 



Petals obovate, white. 



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.6. P. Pashia, Ham. in Dm P^odr. 236; young parts coolly, lea^2 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate crenulate the young serrulate, &}^"'^ 

 when old, cymes corymbose or subumbellate woolly, calyx-lobes ^^^^^^^^^ -^ 

 petals white and pink, fruit globose warted. Wenzig. in Limicea, 1874, -^^.^^^ ^ 

 Jard. Fruit., Le Poirier, t. 7 (Firm) ; Kurz, For. FL Brit, Burm, 441. r. 

 variolosa, Wall Cat. 680 ; Brandis For. FL 204. P. verruculosa, iJew** 

 Piant. Nuov. Asiat. ii. 10, t. 2. P. nepalensis, Herb. Ham. et. Hort. 



Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 2500-8000 ft. (sometimei 

 tjvated, Brandis). Khasia Mts., alt. 5000 ft. Ava, fFrt^fe A.— Distrib. Yu^an. ^^^ 

 A deciduous tree, in a young state like a Cratcegus with 3 lobed and ^^ J^, 

 sharply serrated leaves glabrous or woolly beneath, and often spinescent ^^**°^ J 

 branches dark, woody. Leaves 2-4 in., acuminate, sometimes caudate, glabrous ^ 

 black when dry ; petiole slender, half the length of the blade. Inflorescence very ^^^ 

 riable, usually corymbose with a very short peduncle and woolly, but the Pf^",^. 

 sometimes very thin, or is all but absent when the flowers are fascicled ^^ "^ i^j^j 

 pedicels ^-2 in., slender in flower, stout in fruit. Flowers 1 in. diam. ^^^fl^^i^e. 

 ovate, acute, usually very woolly, especially externally. Petah orbicular-oDo ^ 

 StaTuens about 30. Styles 3-5, qaite free, more or less woolly at the base. ^^^ 

 very variable in size, 1-1 i in. diam., dark yellow-brown, scurfy, covered wit^^ ^^^ 

 white spots, austere, eatable when decaying— A very variable plant, especially ^^ 

 inflorescence ; I was inclined to suppose that Khasia specimens with acutely se ^^^^ 

 leaves and longer pedicels were diflTerent specifically, but I suspect the leave 

 from young trees, and there is every gradation of pedicel from ^2 in. 



6. P. kumaoni, Dene. Jard. Fruit, under Firm Pashia ; l^^^^^^^or 

 or ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate crenulate, glabrous, base ^^ ^pt 

 rounded, cymes corymbose glabrous, calyx-lobes broad rounded glabrous 

 the woolly margins, fruit globose warted. . - 





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Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-8000 ft, Boyh, Sir 

 Winterbottom, &c. ^e gla- 



Very similar in foliage to P. Pashia but at once distinguishable by tne m 

 brous corymbs and broad rounded calyx-lobes. 



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Jacquemontiana, Dene. Jard, Fruit. (Pirns) t. o } ^^ 

 lanceolate acute cremikte erlabrous, base rounded, corymbs 





lobes tomentose above, young 



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