Tas. 7423. 
PYRUS oratmaGirorta. 
Native of Italy. 
Nat. Ord. Rosaczz.—Tribe Pomem, 
Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 626.) 
Prrus crategifolia; arbor v. arbuscula, ramulis petiolis corymbisque pubes- 
centibus, foliis gracile petiolatis late ovatis acutis subtus lanatis demum 
glabratis lobulatis, lobulis utrinque 4-6 grosse dentatis, petiolo gracili, 
stipulis brevibus acutis caducis, corymbis terminalibus laxifloris pubes- 
centibus, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis roseis, calycis tomentosi tubo 
campanulato, lobis lanceolatis deflexis demum deciduis, petalis orbiculatis 
nivels, staminibus ad 15, stylis 4-5 elongatis erectis tomentosis basi 
connatis, baccis ellipsoideis rubris. : 
P. crategifolia, Targ. Tozz. exw Savi Tratt. Alb. Tose. ed. ii, vol. i. (1801), 
p- 169. Archang. Comp. Fl. Ital. p. 232. 
P, florentina, Zarg. Tozz. in Mem. Soc. Moden. vol. xx. pars. ii. (1829), p. 302» 
t.20. DC. Prodr, vol. ii. p. 628; Walp. Rep. Bot. vol. ii. p. 53. 
P. torminalis B., Penore Syill. Fl. Neap, 243. 
Mespilus florentina, Bertol, Amen. Ital. p. 29. 
Cratsgus florentina, Zuccagn. Cent. Prim. Obs. Bot. Hort. Florent. vol. i. 
(1806), ex Roem. Collect. 142. Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 142. 
Sorbus florentina, Nym. Syll. Fl. Europ, p. 266. 
A native of Italy, and apparently a rare plant, growing 
in woods near Florence, Bologna, and Lucca, and a few 
other spots in the north of the Peninsula, but local. Its 
nearest ally is perhaps P. torminalis, from which it differs 
in the more cordate base of the leaves which are inciso- 
serrate and tomentose beneath, in the simple terminal 
corymb with very long pedicels, and in the four to five 
filiform styles, and in the small, ellipsoid, red fruit, — 
P.crategifolia forms a bush about four feet high in the 
Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in June, 
and was, I believe, raised from seed received from the 
late Mr. Grover of Florence, one of the most acute 
and accomplished of Italian Botanists. 
Descr.—A bush or small tree, with slender branches 
and dark brown bark; young branches, leaves beneath, 
and young inflorescence copiously woolly, at length glabres- 
JuLy Ist, 1895, 
