even after the petals have fallen; these latter are white and 
vary much in breadth. Regel enumerates four varieties of 
the fruit, distinguished by form (ovoid or globose), colour 
(greenish and red), the top being depressed or not, and the 
surface obtusely ribbed or smooth. Loudon quotes Knight 
for the statement that some of the finest cultivated apples 
raised by the latter were due to fertilization by the pollen of 
this, and that their progeny proved more hardy and their 
fruit matured earlier, and was higher flavoured. Loudon 
further regards the P. daccata as doubtless a subvariety of 
this, differing only in not having a persistent calyx; but the 
whole character of its fruit is so different, and that of the 
connate style of this so constant, that however like in foliage 
and flower, I cannot think them the same. 
Spach divides the species into two, one, Malus Fontaine- 
siana with triangular-lanceolate calyx segments; the other, 
M. prunifolia, with oblong-lanceolate calyx segments, and 
which flowers a fortnight earlier. 
Pyrus prunifolia has been an inhabitant of Kew for 
upwards of a century, and flowers in April and May, fruiting 
in October. 
Duscr. A small tree ; young shoots, petioles, leaves beneath 
and inflorescence cottony. Leaves two to three inches long, 
ovate or obovate, or nearly orbicular, subacute, rarely acu- 
minate, margin with small, close-set, rather unequal serra- 
tures; petiole often as long as the blade. Unmlbels sessile, 
6—10-flowered ; peduncles, one to one and a half inches long. 
Flowers white, one and a half inches in diameter. Calyx-tube 
obconical, lobes lanceolate, villous. Petals orbicular or 
oblong. Styles connate below the middle. Berry about an 
inch in diameter, globose or ovoid, base intruded, smooth or 
obscurely channelled, crowned by the persistent calyx, green 
or amber yellow and bright red in varying proportions.— 
#7. DD. i, eee 
Fig. 1, Flower with petals reversed :—magnified. 
