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Pyrus,] 



LI. ROSACEA. (J, D. Hooker.) 



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twigs and young parts clothed with a flocculent cotton that falls away in white flakes. 

 leaves 3-4 m., rather membranous, pale green, not shining, point very long, coarsely 

 ferrate, base acute or rounded; petiole very slender. Cory7nb more rounded than in 

 Its allies, white and tomentose when young, more rusty or glabrous when old; 

 Dranches rather short ; covered when fruiting with raised lenticels. Flowers \ in. 

 «m.; pedicels slender. Calyx-tube pyriform ; limb expanded, glabrous within, 

 teeth tnangular, acute. Vetals obovate, woolly within in bud, claw pubescent. Sta- 

 mens blender. Bisk glabrous, inconspicuous. Styles 2, very slender, united below 

 ™ middle, glabrous. Fruit ^^ in. diam., rather pyriform, crown tubular i its own 

 (uameter, with a deep depression and conical centre. 



1 "^Y f^Brrug^inea, Hook, /. ; branchlets leaves heneath and corymbs 

 '^f-y ^lotlied with rusty wool, leaves very shortly petioled broadly elliptic 

 suddenly acuminate serrulate, corvmbs few-flowered, styles 3. Sorbus sikkim- 

 m^ vm\ ferruginea, Wmziy in LinruBa, 1874, 60. 



;.; Bhotan, Griffith. 



- Branchlets with few lenticels. Leaves 2|-3 in., lower half or one-third quite en- 



i|^ upper surface sparsely pubescent orglabrate; nerves 6-8 pair, spreading and 



wng; petiole \ in., densely woolly. Corymbs densely woolly, of few primary sub- 



^ t^7^ ^i'auches ^-J in., which are twice or thrice divided into erect stout pedi- 



dJ'l ^^^^ 5 ^"- ^^^"i- Calyx-tube pyriform; lobes short, triangular, acute, very 



^eciciuous. Petals obovate, woolly on the face and claw. Stamens slender. Disk 



imAA}'^^^' ^^y^^^ usually 3, glabrous, united to the middle ; ovules inserted in the 

 '«*uaie of the axis, 



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'•i' P. Thomson!, King MSS. ; glabrous, leaves very shortly petioled 



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eihptic-lanceolate or -oblanceofate acuminate serrate above the middle, corymbs 

 g^brous, styles 2-4, fruit % in. diam. . 



^:i?^^^*^ Himalaya, alt. 8-10,000 ft,, J! B. K, C.B, Clarke. 



A large tree; branches glabrous, sparingly lenticellate. Leaves 3 in., brown when 

 y»apnarentlv n.i.,1. 4. .,n „i 1 *„^ rarely rounded or obtuse; nerves 



Corymb of few primary subumbel- 

 ^ erect main branches, 1 in. long, di-trichotomously forked. Flowers | in. diam.; 

 ^icels slender. Calyx-tube pyriform; limb expanded ; teeth ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 "clal ^^^^ woolly. Stamen stout. Styles stout, united at the middle or base, 



croZ*^^' ^^^^s attached in the middle of the axis. Fruit with few white spots, 

 PaJ^ ?^^^- Seeds tumid.— Young flowering specimens of this were distributed as 

 cosoTv^ ^^^«^«, Wall., var. ?, and are cited by Decaisne under his Micromeles vcrru- 

 ipi^^V^^^^^spidata, Bertol.) from which it differs in the glabrous narrow leaves 

 "^ ®«ort petioles serrated only beyond tlie middle. 



y» apparently glabrous at all stages; base acute 

 late ^^^^' spreading and arched; petiole }~h, in. 



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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



(Mal 



to P i^--^"S) SiEVERsii, Ledeb, Fl. Alt. ii. 222. A Soongarian species, closely allied 

 (Mem l?^*^^^' differing in being branched from the base, is enumerated by Decaisne 



P ' /Ttr^' -^^^^s) as having been found in Kashmir by Jacquemont. 

 oblol^'i.1 ^^^^^^s) CASTANEiFOLiA, Dcm. Mem. Fam, Pom. 169; "leaves oblong or 

 , ?&~lanceo!MfA Qnnr«;»,of « v.«^« M.f«..« o/iiifniTf ctxTf'xit^ cAixhrciUR. Tifitiole rather loner 



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: P. 



SIKKIMENSIS 



fecluH T^-t'''^*^ ifom Kikkim and the Hhasia mts. Jiiius, var. »., wio oi^iwuu pmut 

 BtatedT v°^^^ ^^*® variety, I cannot recognise by the description, though it is of a plant 

 Var fl ,5*® ^'^^^d by myself; the Khasia one includes P. granulosa and verriicosa.— 

 tfi*J ^\^^l<^ifclia, this T do not rf^cofmise though it professes to be a Sikkim disco- 



nune. 



Tnicrocarpa, a Sikkim plant, is I suppose P. Griffith 





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