Tas. 7773. 
PYRUS a.niro.a. 
Native of Japan and China. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Pomea. 
Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626.) 
Pyrus (Sorbus) alnifolia; arbor parva, ramis lenticellatis cortice fusco _ 
vestitis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-rotundatis acutis vel acuminatis 
argute duplo-triplicato-serratis basi rotandatis cordatisve submembrana- 
ceis glabris penninerviis, nervis numerosis parallelis supra impressis 
subtus gracilibus prominulis, nervulis tenuissimis, corymbis breviter 
dunculatis multifloris, pedunculi ramis pedicellisque brevibus puberu- 
is, floribns ad 4} poll. diam. albis, calycis tomentosi lobis obtusis, 
talorum ungue barbato, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subglobosis 4 poll. 
ongis basi et apice rotundatis rubris. 
P. alnifolia, Franch. & Sav. Enum, Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 350. 
Sorbus alnifolia, C. Koch in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. (1864) p. 249. 
Maxim. Mel. Biol. Dec. ix. (1872) p 173. 
Cratzgus alnifolia, Sieb. & Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. vol. iv. pars IT. 
(1843) p. 180. Miguel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p.40. Franch. 
& Sav. le. vol. i. p. 141. 
Aria tiliwfolia. Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Par. Sér. 1. vol. x. (1874) p. 166. 
A. alnifolia, Deene. l.c. 
Pyrus alnifolia is @ small tree, first described from 
Japan, where it was discovered by Siebold. It inhabits 
the upper limit of the forest region in many parts of the 
Archipelago, including that of the celebrated mountain 
Fudji-yama. Maximovicz found it in Eastern Manchuria, 
and Dr. Henry at elevations of seven thousand feet to nine 
thousand five hundred feet in the Hupeh province of 
China proper. 
The specimen here figured is from a plant which flowered 
in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May, 
1900. It was purchased from Mr. L. Spiith, Nurseryman 
of Berlin, in 1896. 
Descr.—A small tree, glabrous except the corymbs. 
Leaves two to three inches long, shortly petioled, broadly 
ovate or almost orbicular, acute or acuminate, sharply, 
doubly or trebly serrate, base rounded or cordate, bright 
green above, with many parallel immersed nerves, which are 
prominent, but very slender on the pale under surface, 
Mar lst, 1901, 
