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I'yrus.] LI. EOSACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 375 



.1. Punjab in woods by mountain torrents, JacqueTnont, 



-: I know this only by the above characters given by its autbor, who says that it 

 much resembles P.Paskia, but is easily recognised by its smooth young fruit; he 

 however does not speak positively of its being a distinct species. The form of the 

 calyx-lobes is not stated. 



, Sect. Ill, Aria. Leaves simple, entire or margin lobulate. Calyx-lobes 

 persistent. Ovari/ 2-5-celled, styles 2-5. Fruit pyriform or globose crowjaed 

 With the calyx-lobeSj flesh granular, endocarp membranous, 



IV '^^ lanata, Don P^-odr, 237; leaves broadly oblong margins lobulate 

 lobules sen'ulate woolly beneath, corymbs densely woolly, petals glabrous 

 within, stj^les 2-3 woolly all over. P. kumaonensis, WaU, Cat G78. P. 

 ^a, Serb. Ind. Or. Hook. /. 8f Thoim. ; Brandis For. FL 206 (excL syn. P. 

 wtita), P. Aria var. kumaonensis, Maxim. Diagn. Dec, xv. 173. Sorbus 

 ^lanata, Wenzig in Linncea^ 1874, 61. 



- Eastern temperate Himalaya; from Kashmie to Kumaok, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 

 i^ A middle sized tree, with the young parts densely woolly; bark of branches 

 fiinooth, dark brown, shining. Leaves 5-8 by 2-4 in., acute, glabrous above when 

 <»W, except often the midrib ; lobules of leaf with many serratures ; base acute or 

 rounded; nerves 8^12, nearly straight; petioles-fin. Coryvihs short, 2-5 in. broad, 

 terminal and subterminal, much branched. Flowers shortly pedicelled, ^ in. diam., 

 ^ ■: . Ca/yo: turbinate; lobes short, ovate, acute. Petals narrou'ly obovate, nar- 

 fowed into naked claw. Stamens 20. Styles 2-3, densely woolly. Fruit very few 

 JiJ a corymb, or solitary, i-li in. diam., globose and 2-3-seeded, or smaller pyriform 



LrA"^"^^®*^^'^""^^"'^ differs from P. Aria in the lobulate leaves (like those of P. 



^yolia, Poir.) with regularly serrulate lobes, much larger flowers and fewer very 



^^^ fruits, the latter of which are rery variable in size and shape according to 

 e number of seeds ripened. I have not cited Aria kumaonensis. Dene., or A. lanata^ 

 cne. (Mem. Fam. Pom. 162, 163) under this or the following, the species being so 



?iicii confounded ; one of them is the Sorbus nepalensis of gardens and (Jratmgus ( Aria\ 



f^mdata, Spach. (««tY.j Buff. ii. 106), 



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W f vestita, Wall. Cat. 679 ; leaves elliptic acute not or obscurely lo- 

 8urf '^^^^^^^^ ^^^1 shortly petioled most densely woolly beneath and on both 

 ^"^aces when voung, coiymbs densely woolly, petals woolly within, styles 3-5 

 ^,oUy at the fese only. P. crenata, Lvndl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1G55, not of Dm ; 

 ^yenzig m Linnmi, 1874, 60. 



Temperate Himalaya; from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. , . , 

 A tree very closely aUied to P. lanata, but distinguished by the more elliptic and 

 .L^^ ^^olly leaves with rarely marginal lobules, and more numerous nerves. The 

 arp ^^oader petals woolly within and the styles glabrous except at the very base, 

 ^'^^ excellent characters. The figure in the 'Botanical Eegister' if intended for this is 

 «]..??' ^^d one in respect of its representing slender petioles and a want of woolly 

 le7r ?■ . ^ ^^ ^""^ understand why Lindley identifies it with Don s P. crenata, the 

 ha^^^*^^>^g serrate and not crenate, and the corymbs compound. ^ Very old leaves 

 ■ y ^^ Momentum on the leaves beneath appressed, polished and silvery. 

 / <f t^'jj^^^^^^^a ; leaves smaller, narrower, very membranous. P. Ana, L. ? Hook, 

 r^ ■«• Herb. Lid. Or.— Khasia, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



'.Sect. IV. Sorbus. Leaves pinnate. Cahjx-lohes persistent. _ Ovary 2-4- 

 «nd ^y^^ ^~^' ^^^®- ■^'*«*^ globose crowned with tlie persistent calyx ; 

 °carp membranous or coriaceous. 



*. Aucuparia, Ga^rtn.) Ledeb. FL Boss. ii. 100; glabrous or with 

 woolly down, leaflets 7-12 Dair linear-oblong obtuse and apiculate or 





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