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LI. ROSACE-ffi. (J. D. Hooker.) 



[^Fyrus. 



►blong lanceolate and acuminate sharply serrate 

 P. ursina. Herb. Strach. 8c Wint. No. 5. Sorbi 



Orient, ii, 657. 



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Western temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 11,500-13,000 ft. 

 DisTHiB. Turkestan and from the Caucasus -westward to the Atlantic, and from Siberia 

 to N. China and Japan. . 



A small tree, young parts with white cottony tomentum which sometimes persists 

 on the petioles and inflorescence. Leaves 4-8 in.; leaflets f-H in., entire towards 

 the rounded base. Corymbs usually quite glabrous. Flowers ^-^ in. diam., pedicels 

 short. Calyx glabrous, lobes broad short rounded or subacute. Petals white, orbicu- 

 lar. Styles 2-5, quite free, woolly at the base. Fruit globose, |-| in. diam., ^^;'7 

 Strachey and Winterbottom's specimens have a fine glaucous bloom on the fruit whicn 

 appears to hare been blue like those of P.foUolosa, but the specimens want the rusty 

 tomentum of that species. 



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11. P. follolosa. Wall PI. As. Rar. ii. 81, t. 189; Cat. 667, in part\ 

 mibftsnence on leaves beneath petioles and inflorescence rusty brown, leaflets 



pair linear-oblong acute or obtuse apiculate sharply serrate pale brown 

 when ary beneath, petals orbicular-obovate, style very short. P. ursma^ 

 Wall. Cat. 675 ;• Brandis For. Fl. 206. Sorbus ursina and foliosa (^'''"'^'' (^ 

 foliolosa), Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 159. S. ursina, Wendg in Linmea, 1874, 



75. 



10-15 



Temperate Himalaya, from Ktjnawtjr to Sixuim, alt. 9-12,000 ft. 



Very near P. Aucujparia, but a more rubust plant with red-brown tomentum on 

 the petioles inflorescence and midribs of the leaves beneath, at length glabrate; tne 

 flowers also are smaller,moredensely crowded, with linear bracts intermixed, andUiiV 

 much stouter peduncles and pedicels. Fruit small, bluish-red, ovoid, globose or 

 turbinate. Styles usually 5.— The flowers in Sikkim specimens are greenish ^f^^^, 

 and rather foetid, but Gen. Munro sends a specimen from Kunawur with red flowers. 

 Wallich describes the fruit as red. — There are two specimens under this name an 

 number in Wallich's Herbarium, one with the lithographed ticket 677 attached tia| 

 also a MSS. label stating it to have been procured from Gossain Than (a l?^^"^^^? 

 Nepal which Wallich did not himself visit) ; the other specimen has a similar MJ^ 

 ticket stating it to be found at Sheopore by himself; on both tickets he bas written 

 • an ab. ursina. Wall, distincta? '— Of these the first in no way differs from his turee 

 sheets of P. ursina (Cat. 675); whilst the second is a totally different plant, vi2. -t^ 

 Wallichii, mihi. The description in Wallich's 'Plant. As. Ear.' is that ot ^i 

 foliolosa (and ursina) except in that he describes the tomentum of the young pi^^ 

 as white, whereas it is rusty-red, as he says it is on the fully daveloped leaves • 

 As the ursi7ia of Wallich's Catalogue and Herbarium is the foliolosa of his ri& 

 As. Ear., the latter name must replace the former. 



12. P. micropbylla, Wall. Cat. 676; nearly glabrous, slender, leafl^ 

 10-17 pair small linear-oblong acute deeply and acutely serrate, corymbs loiw 

 peduncled lax-flowered, petals small orbicular, Sorbus microphylla, Dcn^- ^^ 

 Fam. Pom. 159 ; Weiizirj in Zinncea, 1874, 76. . 



Temperate Himalaya ; Sibmore, Webb (in Herb. Wall.) ; Sikkim, alt. 10-14,000 -* 

 J. D. K, C, B. Clarke. ^^^ 



Possibly only a form (or young state ?) of P. foliolosa or Jucuparia^ but a J^ 

 much more slender subscaudent plant with more deeply serrate leaflets, g'-J }^:^jIq^ 

 verv slender flattened petioles, longer peduncles and pedicels and large bluish oe ^^^ 

 and 5 styles. Wallich's specimens have no flowers, those of Sikkim ones are re^^ ^ 

 the globose fruit is white or pale blue. What pubescence is present resenibles ^^^ 

 P, foliolosa. It is remarkable that no one since Capt. Webb has found this i 

 Western Himalaya. ' 



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P. Wallichli, ITook.Jil.; young parts clothed witn ^^^"^:^te 

 5-9 pair 1-2 in. linear-oblong acute or apiculate -^-"-^^^ ^^ 



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