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Pyrus Kumaoni Decaisne, Jard. Fruit. I. 328, sub t. 7 (1872). — Hooker f., 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 374 (1879).— Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 665 

 (1906). 



Pyrus Wilhelmii Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 665, fig. 363 n (1906); 

 in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Spec. III. 120 (1907). 



Yunnan: Mengtze, mountain woods, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 

 10035a, type); same locality, alt. 1400 m., A. Henry (No. 10035b). 

 Himalayas: Kashmir to Kumaon (ex Hooker). 



This variety differs from the type in its glabrous or nearly glabrous 

 inflorescence and leaves and in the ovate, broader and often obtuse 

 calyx-lobes. I am unable to separate P. Wilhelmii specifically from 

 this variety; broadly ovate leaves occur also in P. pashia and the state- 

 ment that P. Wilhelmii has only 3 styles is not borne out by the speci- 

 men which represents Henry's No. 10035a, on which P. Wilhelmii is 

 based, in the herbarium of the Arboretum, as the number of styles 

 varies in that specimen from 3 to 5. 



Besides P. pashia there occurs in the western Himalayas another 

 closely related species, P. Jaequemontii Decaisne (Jard. Fruit. I. t. 8. 

 1872). This according to Decaisne differs from P. pashia in its 

 smooth, not verruculose, young fruits. It is so far very imperfectly 

 known, as neither the flowers nor the mature fruits have been de- 

 scribed. 



Arnold Arboretum, 

 Harvard University. 



