Tas. 7988. 
CYDONTA stvensts. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacka#,—Tribe Pomacea. 
Genus Cyponta, Tourn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. i. p, 626, sub. 
Pyro). 
CypDONIA stnensis; arbor parva, tortuoso-ramosa, foliis petiolatis adultis 
crassiusculis ovatis vel obovatis cum petiolo usque ad 4 poll. longis (in 
ramis florigeris seepius minoribus lanceolatisque) acutis basi cuneatis 
petiolo marginibusque glanduloso-serrulatis glabrescentibus, stipulis 
pedatis cito deciduis oblongo-lanceolatixs 3-4 lin. longis margine glandn- 
losis basi utrinque lobis binis parvis deflexis instructis lobis exterioribus 
minutis, pedunculis brevibus unifloris basi bracteis numerosis ovato- 
oblongis circiter semipollicaribus margine glandulosis ornatis, floribus 
circiter 14 poll. diametro, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis 3-4 lin, 
longis acutis recurvis margine glandulosis precipue intus albo-lanatis, 
petalis ohovato-oblongis 7-8 lin. longis apice rotundatis roseis basi albis 
et rubro-zonatis, staminibus uniseriatis quam petalis dimidio brevioribus 
stylos excedentibus, ovario 5-loculari, stylis glabris medio connatis, 
stigmatibus capitatis, fructu oblongo-ovoideo circiter 6 poll. longo aureo, 
seminibus -numerosissimis subtriangularibus. uno angulo rotundato 
compressis 3-4} lin. longis brunneis opacis Jeevibus. 
C. sinensis, Thouin in Ann. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. de Par. vol. xix. (1812), 
pp. 144-153. tt. 8 e¢ 9. Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 1815, p. 200. DC. Prodr. 
vol. ii. p. 638. Duhamel, Traité des Arbres et Arbustes, vol. vi. t. 75, 
Herbier Général de Vv Amateur, vol. ii. t. 75. Rev. Hort, 1889, p. 228, 
cum ic. color. W.B. H. in Kew Bulletin, 1899, p. 224. Wien. Illustr. 
Gart. Zeit. vol. xxvi. (1901), p. 207, t. 2. Hemsl. in Hook, Ic. Pl. sub 
tt. 2657-8. 
C. chinensis, Lind. Bot. Reg. vol. xi. (1825), t. 905. 
Pyrus sinensis, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 452, non Lindl. nee 
Auctor, alior. plurim. 
P. cathayensis, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1887), p. 256, pro 
parte. 
P, chinensis, Spreng. Syst. vol. ii. p. 510. 
P. chinensis, Roxb. Fl, Ind. vol. ii. p. 511. 
Cheenomeles chinensis, Kehne, Dendrol. p. 262, 
This quince was originally described and figured in 
black and white, by Thouin, from a tree in the Jardin 
des Plantes, Paris, and he states that it was introduced 
into England and Holland during the last decade of the 
eighteenth century. We find no confirmation of this 
statement, and Lindley seems to have been the first to 
DeceMBER Ist, 1904, 
