Tab. 7354. 

 OSTEOMELES anthyllidifolia. 

 Native of Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands. 



Nat. Ord. Eosace^;. — Tribe Pome^. 

 Genus Osteomeles, Lindl; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 628.) 



Osteomei/es anthyllidifolia ; fruticuhis sempervirens, ramulis rigidis, foliis 

 pinnatis breviter petiolatis, foliolis ad 12-jugis parvis sessilibus alternis 

 oblongig obovato-oblongisve obtusis apiculatis coriaceis ntrinque v. snbtns 

 subsericeo pilosis v. fere glaberrimis et lucidis, racbi trigono medio 

 sulcato, floribus in corymbos terminales axillares paucidoros dispositis 

 albis, sepalis ovatis subacutis, petalis sepalis duplo longioribus obovato- 

 oblongis patulis, staminibus subbiseriatis petalis brevioribus, drupis 

 pisiformibus coccineis sepalis persist entibus coronatis. 



O. anthyllidifolia, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 98, t. 8. DC. Prodr. 

 vol. ii. p. 633. A. Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. N.S. vi. (1857), 388. Maxim, 

 in Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 182. Hemsl. in Bot. Challenger Exped. vol. i. 

 Introd. p. 18, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii., p. 265, and vol. xxviii. 

 p. 56. Gard. Chron. (1893), p. 743. Lemoine Prix Cour. n. 124 (1893), 

 p. iii. 



O. subrotunda, C Koch in Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 250. 

 Miq. I. c. p. 41. 



Pyrns anthyllidifolia, Smith in Bees Cyclop, vol. xxix. n. 29. 



The genus Osteomeles was founded by Lindley on the 

 plant here figured, which was discovered in Hawaii 

 (Sandwich Islands) by Archibald Menzies, the surgeon and 

 naturalist who accompanied Captain Vancouver, R.N., in 

 his voyage to survey the coasts of N.W. America in 1792. 

 Lindley's figure, in the " Linngean Transactions," repre- 

 sents a different form of the plant from that given in our 

 plate, the leaflets and petals being more distant, obovate- 

 spathulate, and the filaments longer. Tbe same species 

 has been found to extend westward as far as Burma, 

 availing itself, as it were, by stepping-stones, across the 

 Pacific of Bonin, and the Loo-choo Islds., and thence ex- 

 tending to China, where it inhabits the mountains of Yun- 

 nan, and the Shan States, where it was found by Col. Sir 

 Henry Collett, K.C.B., when serving in the last Burmese 

 war. What is even more curious, is the southern extension 

 of this pecular little shrub far into the Southern hemisphere, 



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