Kew collection from Messrs. Fisher, Son & Sibray of 
the Handsworth Nurseries, Sheffield, in January, 1904, 
under the name of Pyrus Aria himalaica. As a garden- 
tree it is, in some respects, the finest of all the Whitebeams 
in cultivation, especially in regard to the size of its foliage 
and flowers. The fruits, although large, are not so brightly 
coloured as in various forms of P. Aria itself. This species 
is somewhat uncertain in its behaviour under cultivation. 
After growing quite well for a number of years it will, 
without any ostensible cause, and sometimes in the middle 
of the active growing season, suddenly droop and soon 
afterwards die. To this unfortunate circumstance is probably 
due the fact that although the species came into cultivation 
in England nearly eighty years ago, there are few, if any, 
fully grown trees in this country. 
Description.— Tree, of medium size under cultivation, 
sometimes of large dimensions in the wild state; innovations 
white-woolly, branches soon becoming glabrous, purplish- 
brown and _ lenticelled; buds ovoid, subacute, glabrous. 
Leaves elliptic, rounded or shortly cuneate at the base, — 
shortly acuminate or subacute or obtuse at the apex, 
irregularly simply or double toothed and sometimes slightly 
lobulate, 5-8 in. long, 3~4 in. wide, firm when full grown, 
at first loosely white-pubescent but soon glabrous above, 
persistently white-tomentose beneath, lateral nerves 12-15 
on each side ending in the marginal teeth; petiole stout, 
1-l in. long. Corymbs short, 24 in. across, many-flowered, 
rather dense and white-tomentose ; pedicels short or very 
short. eceptacle with a green glabrous base, elsewhere 
white-villous as are the triangular or lanceolate-subulate 
sepals, Petals white, villous within. Stamens about 25; 
anthers purple. Carpels connate and at the same time 
adnate to the receptacle; styles 3-5, connate at the base 
and woolly below. uit globose, # in. across, tipped by 
the persistent calyx, red in the wild state, reddish-green in 
cultivated examples, brownish as it ripens, lenticelled; 
endocarp thinly papery. Be 
Fig. 1, longitudinal section of a flower, the petals removed; 2, petal, seen 
from upper side; 8, transverse section of receptacle and ovary; 4, branch of 
fruiting corymb; 5, longitudinal section of fruit:—1-3 enlarged, 4 and 5 of 
natural size, - 
