1 



^ - 



380 



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



\^Pyru8l 



WenzJg doubtfully (and erroneously) refers P. Nussia, Don.— Var. 5. ferruginea is P. 



Jerruginea, 



P. CRENATA. Bon, Ptodr, 237 ; "leaves long-petioled ovate acute crenate glabroud 

 above, young beneath and branchlets white-tomentoae, corymbs simply woolly, calyx- 

 lobes ovate acute.— Suemba in Upper Nepal, Hamilton. Obs. P. Pollveria differ in 

 the shorter broader serrate not crenate leaves and in the more numerous flowers. — -1 

 do not recognise the above. — Can it be the common pear ? 



.i^ 



■? 



-\ 



21. PKOTXMXA, LindL 



.rubs. Leaves coriaceous, quite entire or semilatej 



Floivers small, corymbose, white. Calyx-tuhe olh 



limb 5-cieft ; lobes short, persistent. Petals 5, contorted or imbricate m 



" ' - - - - - Staynem 20 or more. 



Evei^ 

 stipules subulate, deciduous, 

 conic ; 



bud, orbicular or obovate, claw glabrous or woolly. - ^ 



Ovary with a conical pubescent or woolly crown, 2- rarely 3-celled ; styles ly 

 rarely 3, free, or combined at the bar- ^^^^ • --"i-- ^ /•^Ho+otoI nparlv basal 



in each cell, ascending. Fruit small ^ 

 hard ; endocarp crusteceous or membranous. Seeds obovoid, triquetrous or com- 

 pressed, nearly as long as the fruit, testa coriaceous. — Distkib. Eastern tropical 

 and subtropical Asia j species 7 or 8. 



1. P. Ziindleyana, Wight ^ Am. Pt-odr. 302; quite glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic oblong or ovate acute crenulate or entire base rounded, nerves lo- 

 pair faint, petiole long stout, flowers ^ in. diam., claw of petal villous, fnut tur- 

 binate or subglobose. Wight Ic. t. 228 ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 141. V.p^o- 

 toniana, Wall. Cat. 671, not of Wight 8f Am. P serrulata, Lindl y. Wen::xg m 

 Zinnaa, 1874, 94. 



NixoHiRRi Biu.s, Noion, Wight, &c. i fthe 



A small tree? everywhere glabrous except the crown of the ovary and claw ^ 

 petals ; branches stout. Leaves 3-6 in., very thickly coriaceous, not shining on ei 

 surface, flat; nerves nearly horizontal ; petiole 1^-2 in., cylindric. Gorymhs 3-5 i • 

 diam., much branched from the base, branches stout. Flowers \ in- diam., p^ 

 celled; bracts subulate. Calyx-lobes rounded. Petals orbicular-obovate, claw ^__ 

 tinct. Styles 2, very stout, short. Fruit ^ in. long, smooth, glaucous ; ^°^^^ 

 crustaceous. — Wallich's P. Notoniana is only a form of Lindleyana, with the ere 

 tures few and confined to near the top of the leaf. 



2. P, 



3 obloBg or lanceolate acuminate 

 many and slender, petiole long 



7f Wall. 



glabrous, flowers J in. diam., fruit globose. ' Wight Lc. 991 ; IIL t. o" j ^^'" 

 Mem. Fam. Pom. 141 ; Bedd, FL Sylv. t. 192. P. Blumei, Dene. L c. i^ 

 Eriobotrya integrifolia, Kurz, For. FL Brit. Burm. i. 442. 



NiLGHiRRi and Pulney Mts., Wight, &c. Khasia ]Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. 

 TABAN, alt. 7-7200 ft., Kurz. Ceylon; Central province, alt. 6-7000 ft. 

 Java. 



DlSTBlB 



A small tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, which is finely pubescent. ^^^ 

 2J-6 in., very variable, sometimes caudate-acuminate, thickly coriaceous, ^-henu ^^^ 



nerves very deUcate, hardly shining above; petiole f-2 in., flat or S^^^"^^ r^^^ii 

 Corj/Tni excessively branched, 3-10 in. diam.; branches slender in A^^^^',^ ^W 

 fruit. i^/owCT-5 pedicelled, white. Calyx-lobes rounded. Petals orbicular, ^^l^^^^^sl' 

 brous or slightly villous. Fruit I in. diam., blue, glaucous ; endocarp "?®"^^ttority 

 Seeds compressed, radicular end incurved.— 1 refer Kurz's plant hereon ^'^^^^ ggni 

 of his citation of Beddome ; he describes the leaves as sometimes cuneate-oDlo g 

 with a few inconspicuous teeth. 



1^ -J ..', -■ 



r L , J 



^' ' 



■J- 



'I - - 







'i 



