Tas. 8629. 
PYRUS YUNNANENSIS. 
China. 
Rosaceas. Tribe Pommar. 
Pyrus, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626. 
Pyrus (§ Eriolobus) yunnanensis, Franch, Pl. Delavay. p. 228 (1889); species 
P. Tschonoskit, Maxim., valde affinis, floribus minoribus pro corymbo 
numerosioribus fructibus minoribus rubris foliisque ramulorum sterilium 
altius lobatis facillime distinguenda. ; 
Arbor inermis, 6—9-metralis ; innovationes primum dense tomentosi demum 
glabrati, brunneo-rubescentes. Folia decidua, ramulorum floriferorum 
ovata, margine minute irregulariter serrata, ramulorum sterilium saepius 
subobovata, plus minusve lobulata lobulis iterum serratis, omnia apice 
acuta, basi cordata vel rotundata, 5-11 cm. longa, 3°5-7°5 cm. lata, supra 
sordide viridia primum floccosa demum fere glabra, subtus dense velutina 
demum glabrescentia ; nervi laterales utrinsecus 6-9; petiolus 1°7-3°5 cm, 
longus, pubescens. lores 1°5 cm. lati, in corymbos 5-7°5 cm. latos 
ramulos dense tomentosos 8-4-foliatos terminantes dispositi; rhachis 
dense tomentosa; pedicelli dense tomentosi, circiter 2°5 em.longi. Calyx 
dense tomentosus ; lobi 2°5 mm. longi, triangulares, demum reflexi. Petala 
pallide rosea vel fere alba, 6 mm. longa, orbicularia, ungue breve tomentoso 
suffulta. Stamina circiter 20 ; filamenta glabra ; antheraeluteae. Ovariwm 
5-loculare; styli 5, ad medium usque connati. Fructus globosi, 1-2 cm. 
diametro, intense rubri maculis albis notati, calycis lobis persistentibus 
coronati; carnes scruposae, acerbae. Semina 3 mm. longa, securiformia, 
brunnea.—Eriolobus yunnanensis, Schneider in Handb. Laubholzk. vol. i. 
p. 727 (1906). Pyrus Veitchii, Hort.; Gard. Chron. 1912, vol. lii. p. 288 
[nomen]; Veitch, Cat. New Hardy Plants from China—Autumn 1918, 
p. 12. P. Veitchiana, Hort.; Gard. Chron. 1912, l.c.[{nomen].—W. J. Bean. 
The handsome tree now figured belongs to that section 
of Pyrus which Roemer established as a separate genus, 
Eriolobus. To it belong also the Japanese P. T'schonosku, 
Maxim., figured at t. 8179 of this work, and P. trilohata, 
DC., a native of Syria, very rare in gardens but repre- 
sented in the Kew collection. riolobus differs from the 
Aria group, in which Franchet placed P. yunnanensis, by 
the styles being united for their lower third or more, and 
from Malus by the flesh of the fruit having grit-cells. 
The tree from which our figure was prepared is now 
growing in the collection of Pyrus immediately south of 
the Temperate House at Kew. It was purchased in 
1913 from Messrs. Veitch, who raised it in 1900 in their 
Coombe Wood Nursery from seed sent from the district 
of Chang-yang in Western China by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 
A tree heavily laden with the handsome fruits was 
Ocroper, 1915. 
