Tas, 6780, 
PYRUS (Cyponta) Mavtet. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacez.—Tribe Pomez. 
Genus Pyrvs, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol.i. p. 626.) 
Pyrvus (Cydonia) Maulei; frutex spinosus glaberrimus, foliis obovatis crenatis 
apice rotundatis basi cuneatis: in petiolum angustatis, floribus subsessilibus 
fasciculatis, calycis lobis rotundatis ciliatis deciduis, petalis unguiculatis obo- 
vato-spathulatis concavis coccineis v. rubro-aurantiacis, stylo glaberrimo gracile 
elongato supra medium 2-5-fido ramis gracilibus, fructu globoso aurantiaco v. 
aureo basi et apice profunde intruso extus viscidulo. 
P. Maulei, Masters in Gard, Chron. N.S. vol. ii. (1874), p. 756, t. 159, et vol. iii. 
p- 744, £. 144. ; 
This is one of the most valuable additions to the shrub- 
beries of England that has been introduced within the last 
decade of years, for it was in 1874 that it was first made 
known from plants introduced by Messrs. Maule and Sons, 
of Bristol, and which were appropriately named after the 
head of the firm by Dr. Masters, with a full description 
and figure in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle.” | Whether, how- 
ever, it will prove as distinct from the old P. japonica as 
Dr. Masters thinks it is, may be doubtful; if it be so, the 
principal character is probably in the fruit, which is in this 
globose and of a bright yellow with scarce any trace of 
angles, whilst in P. japonica it is longer, more ovoid, 
distinctly five-angled, and of a very different texture and 
taste. As to the fruit, however, it is a suspicious circum- 
stance that in the figure of it which accompanied that of 
the drawing which Messrs. Maule received from Japan, it 
is represented as cylindric oblong, truncate, and slightly 
umbilicate at both ends, deeply longitudinally ribbed, and 
yellow dotted with red, characters wholly at variance with 
that of plants ripened in England, whether by Mr. Maule 
and well figured in the Chronicle, at fig. 144, or at Kew 
and here figured, which agree remarkably well together. 
Again, the petals of P. Maulei are described as orange-red, 
_ OCTOBER Ist, 1884. 
