ROSACEA. 139 



On the edges of shola, road-sides, etc. Abundant. Nilgiris : 

 Ootacamund, Pykara, flowering May. 



Geh, Dist, Nilgiri and Pulney hills only. 



PHOTINIA. F.B.I. 51 XXI. 



Trees with simple evergreen leaves and small flowers 

 of five sepals, five petals, many stamens, and a few (one to 

 five) carpels, entirely enclosed in calyx tube which ripens 

 into a small berry with one to five thin-walled chambers 

 containing the seeds. 



Species under ten in tropical and sub-tropical regions of Asia. 



Leaves serrate or crenate P. lindleyana. 



Leaves quite entire P. notoniana. 



Photinia lindleyana Wight and Aniott ; Herh. Wight 

 Prop. I0I2 and 1013 ! ; F.B.L ii 380, XXI I ; Lindley's 

 Rowan. A medium-sized tree with crooked branches. 

 Leaf-stalks ij^ inches, red : blade ovate-elliptic, rounded 

 or occasionally unequal at the base, acute-mucronate, 

 serrate-crenate or sometimes almost entire, very hard and 

 coriaceous, dark-green above, lighter underneath ; nerves 

 slender about sixteen pairs, joined by close reticulation. 

 Panicle irregular, i^ to 3 inches high, few flowered. 

 Fruit 54 inch. t. 102. Wight Ic. t. 228.; 



Nilgiris : Pykara, Coonoor. Not collected on Pulneys 

 Fyson 2229, 2471, 2533. 



In outline the tree is somewhat like P. notoniana but flatter, without 

 tall pyramidal masses of foliage. 



Photinia notoniana Wight and Arnott ; Herb, Wight 

 Prop' IOT4 ! ; F.B.L ii 380, XXI 2 ; common Pulney 

 Rowan. In the open a small, or in woods a large, tree 

 with straight or crooked trunk and spreading branches. 

 Bark rough and dark, and on the young branches smooth 

 but for the numerous lenticels : branchlets angular 

 green or red. Leaf-stalks % to ij^ inches, glabrous as 



