Buchanan (afterwards Hamilton) and again by Wallich 
The bulk of the specimens in the Kew herbarium are more 
or less intermediate between the Nepal and the Kumaon 
forms, the amount and degree of persistence of the tomentum 
showing considerable variation. 
According to Loudon (Encye. of Trees and Shrubs, 
p. 424) P. Pashia was. first introduced into England in 
1825, but the precise history of the tree from which the 
plate now given was prepared is not known. It has been 
growing in the collection of Rosaceae at Kew for many 
years; it is a grafted plant, but is in vigorous health, being 
now 25 ft. high, 20 ft. in spread of branches, with a 
trunk 2 ft. 3 in. in girth. It flowers with all the pro- 
fusion characteristic of its kind, but is more attractive than 
the majority because of the compactness of its flower-clusters — 
and the full-rounded contour of the individual blossoms. 
The deep-red anthers, too, show up strongly against the 
pure white petals, and the tree is worthy of more notice 
from arboriculturists than it has yet received. : 
Descriprion.— Tree, small to medium in size, with 
branchlets that blacken on drying, glabrous or soon be- 
coming so; buds conical, glabrous, }-} in. long. Leaves 
ovate tending to rounded-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, gradu- 
ally narrowed or at times obtuse at the tip, rounded at the 
base, finely crenulate, usually 2-33 in. long, 14-2 in. wide, 
glabrous or soon becoming so, when full-grown papery 
very dark green; petioles slender, 13-2 in. long. Corymi 
many-flowered, on short branchlets, glabrous or soon b 
coming so; pedicels about 4 in. long. Receptacle glabrous 
Sepals at length falling off, triangular or ovate, obtuse or 
acute, or occasionally apiculate, glabrous without, more or 
less cottony-pubescent within, the hairs on their margins 
glandular and more persistent elsewhere, sometimes dis- 
appearing. Petals at first suffused with pale rose, at length 
becoming white. Stamens exceeding 25. Styles usually 5. 
Fruit globose or obovoid-globose, brownish green or brown, 
dotted with numerous pale lenticels, over 1 in. in diameter. — 
Fig. 1, flower about to open; 2, vertical section of flowers, the petals 
ee showing bases of filaments and styles; 3 and 4, stamens:—all 
enlarged. 
