Tap, 8256. 
PYRUS Pasuia, var. KuMaont. 
Himalaya. 
RosacEaAE. Tribe PoMEAR. 
Pyrvs, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626. 
Pyrus Pashia, var. Kumaoni, Stapf; a P. Pashia, Ham. ex Don (typica) 
ramis foliis corymbis et calyce extus glabris vel si juventute magis 
minusve gossypinis mox glabratis et sepalis saepe latius triangularibus 
et apice minus productis distinguenda. . 
Arbor humilis vel mediocris, ramulis glabris vel citissime glabratis exsiccando 
nigricantibus; gemmae conicae, glabrae, 3-5 mm. longae. Folia ovata ad. 
rotundato-ellipticum vel ovato-lanceolatum virgentia, apice sensim 
attenuata vel obtusa, basi rotundata, margine minute crenulata, plurima 
5-9 em. longa, 3-5 em. lata, glabra vel citissime glabrata, matura papy- 
racea, nigro-viridia; petioli graciles, plerumque 3-5 cm. longi. Corymbi 
multiflora in ramis abbreviatis, glabri vel cito glabrati; pedicelli circiter 
lem. longi. Receptaculum glabrum. Sepala demum decidua, triangularia 
vel ovata, obtusa vel acuta, raro in apiculum producta, extus glabra, 
intus magis minusve gossypino-villosa, villis secundum margines glandu- 
loso-ciliolatas diutius persistentibus caeterum interdum evandis. Petala 
primo roseo-suffusa, deinde alba. Stamina ultra 25. Styli plerumque 5. 
Fructus globosus vel obovoideo-globosus, brunneo-viridis vel brunneus, 
lenticellis pallidis crebris notatus, ad 3 cm. diametro. P. Kumaoni, 
Dene, Jard. Fruit. vol. i. sub tab. vii.; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. 
p. 374.—O. Srapr. 
It has already been suggested by Dr. Schneider (Ill. 
Handb. Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 665) that the tree cultivated in 
European collections as Pyrus Pashia, which Decaisne has 
distinguished from the typical form of that species as 
P. Kumaoni, may be no more than a glabrous variety of 
P. Pashia proper. A careful study of the material in the 
herbarium at Kew has enabled Dr. Stapf to completely 
confirm this view. P. Pashia, taken in its wider sense, 
ranges throughout the whole of the temperate Himalaya 
from Kashmir to Bhutan, and extends thence to the Khasia 
and Naga Hills, to Manipur and northern Burma and into 
western China. The form now figured was described by 
Decaisne from a specimen collected by Strachey and 
Winterbottom in Kumaon between 5,000 and 8,000 ft. 
above sea-level, where it is said to be common. The form 
which constitutes the type of the species is one with densely 
cottony leaves and ealyees, which was collected in Nepal by 
May, 1909. ; . 
