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PYRUS* sinensis. 

 The Chinese Pear. 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord, PomacEjE. Juss. Lindley's synops. 103. 

 PYRUS. — Suprd, vol. 6. foL 514. 



P. chinensis ; foliis cordatis apiculatis lucidis serratis : junioribus subtiis 



pubescentibus, pedunculis corymbosis, calycibus intils glabris, fructu 



verrucoso osseo. 

 Ri vulg6 Nas. Pyrus sativa fructu magno duro. Kcempf. amcen. 800. 

 Pyrus communis. Lour. Ji. Cochin Ch. p. 321. 

 Pyrus sinensis. Lindley in hart, trans. 6. 396. Hort. soc. fruit catalogue, 



p. 154. 



Arbor Pyri communis similis ; differt tamen ramis validioribus pallid^ 

 viridibus demiim fusco-viridibus, foliis majoribus lucidis fere seniper- 

 virentibus, fructibus austeris pomiformibus verrucosis osseis, calyce demiim 

 intils semper glabra nee lanuginoso. 



This, the Chinese Pear, Sandy Pear, or Snow Pear, as 

 it is indiscriminately called, is a species at present very 

 little known in Europe. It is a native of China, whence it 

 was originally introduced by the Horticultural Society in 

 the year 1820, on board the Cornwall, Captain John 

 Peter Wilson. 



It differs from the European Pear in having longer and 

 greener branches ; larger, more lucid, and almost ever- 

 green leaves ; insipid, apple-shaped, warted, very gritty 

 fruit ; and a calyx, the inside of which is destitute of the 

 down that is found in all the varieties of the European 

 Pear. 



The Chinese call it the Sandy Pear, in consequence of 

 the grittiness of its fruit, which is occasionally ripened in 



* Seefol. 1196. 



