ROSACEJE. 487 



tt Orary inferior. Fruit an apple or a l-o-pijrenous drupe. 

 rOMIEJE. 



* Ovary-cells 1-5, with 2 ovules in each cell. Leaves simple to lohed and jHunate. 

 Flowers regular. 



Pyki's, Liinmus. 



Calyx-limh deciduous or persistent. Ovary and apjjle 2-5-ccllcd, tlic cudocari> 

 often cartilaginous. Leaf-shoddiug trees or shrubs. 



* Flowers usually hy pairs from the a.vils of the leaves, or spuriously racemose from 

 the non-development of young foliage. Ovary-cells many ovuled. 



P. Indica, Roxb. Ava and Khakycn Hills. 



Young parts, pedicels, and calyx densely white-woolly. Petals an inch long. 

 Fruits pear-shaped, 1-H inch long, crowned by the calyx-limb. 



** Flowers corymbose or panicled at the end of the Irancldets or in the axils of the 

 upper leaves. Ovary -cells 2-ovuled. 



P. PAsniA, Don. Khakycn Hills. 



P. variolosa, Wall. 

 Flowers corymbose, on slender pedicels 1-2 inches long. Fruits globose, tho 

 size of a bullet. 



P. GRAN-DULOSA, Bcrtol. HiUs East of Tuung-ngoo at 7000 feet. 



F. Karensiuin, Kz. 



Flowers panicled, very shortly and stoutly pedicelled. Fruits as in preceding. 



EitlonoTKYA, Lindley, 

 Calyx-limh persistent. Ovary and berry 1-5-celled, tho endooari) and septa thin. 



X Leaves entire. 

 E. (PnoTiNiA) ixTEGRiFOLrA, Lill. Kat-toung, East of Toung-ngoo at 7000 feet. 



P. Xotoniana, VV.A. 



P. congenifolia, Ldl. 



Calyx and panicle puborulous. Eerrics the size of a pea. Evergreen tree. 



E. MACROCARTA, Kz. Tropical forests of Ivanibalu Toung in the 



Pegu Kange at 2000 feet. 



Quite glabrous. Fruit an apple of the size of a bullet. 



The fruits look more like apples, but tho tree is evergreen. Tlie very same 

 tree occurs also in tho outer hills of the Sikkim Himalaya (Kurz). 



X X Leaves coarsely crenate, at least towards the apex. Inflorescence rusty or 

 tawny woolly -tomentose. 



E. DCBIA. Ldl. Chittagong, Bhamo, and hills East of 



Mespilus Bengalensis, Roxb. Toung-ngoo at GOOO feet. 



Leaves glabrous. Calyx about a line long. 



*E. (jrKspiLrs) Jai'onica, Thb. Cultivated. 



The ' Loquat.' 



Leaves woolly-tomentosc beneath. Caly.x 3—1 lines long. 



B. Carpels usually numerous, rarely few, connate or more mually distinct and 

 inserted on a torus or inclosed in the calyx-tube. Fruit-carpels indehiscent, or rarely 

 dehiscent {in Spirece, etc.). 



f Carpels distinct, within the jwrsistcnf calyx-tube, which forms a comj)ound 

 spuriously itiferior fruit. 



