632 MALACEAE 
Faminy 14. MALACEAE — APPLE FAMILY 
Trees o Leaves alternate: blades simple and pinnately veined, 
or eel compound. owers perfect, regular. ypanthium adnate 
the ovary. Calyx b mostly 5 sepals. Corolla of mostly 5 petals. 
Androecium of numerous, or rarel w, stamen E Gynoecium o 
wholly or partially united carpels, or rareiy of 1 carpel. Fruit a pome. 
About 20 genera and 500 species of wide peas ti Ceiba on. 
Endocarp of the mature carpels papery or thin coriaceous. . MALEAE. 
Endocarp of the mature carpels bony, distinct or coherent. Il. CRATAEGEAE. 
I. MALEAE 
Leaf-blades pinnately compoun 1. SORBUS. 
Lea s simple, entire, oond, or lobed. 
Cavities of the ovary (carpels) as mn as the styles. 
ne simple; pom 
ells: hypanthium-orifice nearly closed by a anm 2. PYRUS. 
Boma depress , not dilated upward ; esh without 
grit-cells: hypanthium-orifice o 3. MA 
Cyme Combo dnd? pome small, ber ry-like. 4. ARON 
Cavities of the ovary becoming twice as many as the styles. 5. ANC HIER 
I. ATAEGEAE 
Ovules solitary in each carpel, or, if 2, dissimilar. 6. CRATAEGUS. 
Ovules 2 in each carpel, alike. 7. COTONEASTER. 
. SORBUS [Tourn.] L. Leaf-blades pinnate: leaflets toothed. Cyme 
compound, flat-topped. Hypanthium urceolate, not bracteolate. Corolla 
white. Pome berry-like, bright-colored, per- 
sistent.—About 10 species, natives of the 
north temperate zone 
1. S. americana Marsh. Small tree, with 
smooth bark: leaflets 11-17; blades lanceo- 
late, acuminate, glabrous or slightly pubes- 
em. long, sharply 
ent when young, 3.5—10 long, s 
serrate with mucronate teeth: cymes 8-15 
em rolla ereamy wh 4—6 
te 4 
TAIN-ASH.)—Rocky woods and X s 
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in acid soil, Blue Ridge and m Pro 
inces, N. C. to Tenn., Man, and Newf SE 
S [Tou L. Leaf-blades simple, usually toothed. Cym 
n.] me 
staple Ga d. Pome usually tapering to the base.—About 12 species, 
natives of the Old. World. 
t T 
\ 
s L. Tree, usually thorny: 
‘caf blades € unl woe A obovate, slen- 
PS Nos 
der, petioled, 3-8 em. long, glabrous or : PU 
nearly so in age, acute or acuminate: cyme 
oe ere Ss els 1.8-5 cm 
d icels 1. : 
long: sepals about as long as the hypan- 
thium: iis creamy white, about 2.5 cm. 
broad: pome, in the wild form, seldom over 
9 em. long, in the numerous cultivated forms 
oen much pomi (PEAR R.)— Woods, thick- 
ets, and roadsides, various provinces, Fla. to 
Tex., Calif., and Me. Nat. of the Old World 
= E 
and cult. 
