APKIM908.3 MAKiyO.—OBSERV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. (jy 



the half-length of petals, erect-patent, attaining 5mm. in 

 length ; filaments subulate, glabrous, white ; anther oval, deep 

 purple. St\'les 2, quite free, close, erect, equal to or more 

 or less longer than the stamens in height, filiform, glabrous ; 

 stigma terminal, small, depressed-capitate. Carpels 2, adnate 

 to the cah'x-tube ; ovules 2 in each carpel, ascending, ob- 

 ovoid-oblong. Pomes 1-11-subracemoso-umbellate on the 



top of ' kurztrieb ', 7-1 -imm. in diameter, rounded at the 

 base, often somewhat umbilicate and naked from the free 

 portion of the calyx-tube at the top, light fulvous when 

 matured, dispersedly or densely variolate with unequal-sized 

 pustules ; pulp austere ; endcarp cartilaginous, 2-valved ; 

 pedicels slender, strict, very shortly obconically enlarged under 

 the pome and continued to it, l-2|cm. or more long. Seeds 

 solitary or two in each carpel, obovate, more or less oblique, 

 compressed, slightly angulate, acute at the base, about 6mm. 

 long ; testa crustaceous, smooth, atropurpureo-castaneous ; 

 cotyledons obovoid, compressed, rounded at the apex, bifid at 

 the base ; hypocotyl minute. 



Nom. Jap. Mame-nashi (nov.), Inu-nashi (vernacular name 

 in the province of Ise). 



Hab. Prov. Ise : Hadzu-mura near Tarusaka-^^ama, spon- 

 taneous (y. Uyematsu, K. Imai and K. Teraoka ! April 13, 

 1902 ; F. TJyematsu ! June, 10, 1903, July 31, 1904 ; M. Kawa- 

 saki I 1903, May 1904; K. Imai I July 31, 1904 ; T. Makino \ 

 Aug. 1905 ; K. Nakahara ! April 1908) ; Prov. Shinano : Near 

 Mt. Yatsugatake (T. Makino ! Aug. 1907). 



This is a species very closely allied to Pirus Calhryana 

 Decne. and P. betulasfolia Bunge, and it ma\' be perhaps identic- 

 al to P. Calleryana Decne. It differs from P. betulasfolia 

 Decne., which has the griseous branches, and more conspicuous- 

 ly veined shining and serrato-dentate leaves, with more densely 

 tomentose young leaves and inflorescence, longer common 

 rachis, more numerous flowers, glandular-margined calj^x-seg- 

 ments, and pome slightly attenuated to the pedicel and thinly 

 variolate. It has also a resemblance to Pirus variolosa Wall. 

 (=P. Pashia Hamilt.) of India and southern China. 



