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XLVIII. ROSACEA. 



[Parinarium. 



Stamens 2 ; drupe small, coriaceous ; calyx-tube 

 short ........ 



Style terminal; trees or shrubs ; leaves simple. 

 Petals large; calyx 5-toothed ; drupe pulpy . 

 Petals minute or o; calyx 5- to lo-toothed; drupe 

 fleshy ........ 



Carpels many, fleshy or pulpy, not included in calyx-tube. 



Climbing thorny shrubs ; leaves lobed serrate 



Calyx-tube becoming fleshy and enclosing the carpels ; 



fruit a pome, with 3 to 5 bony or coriaceous 



stones. 



Flowers corymbose or fascicled .... 



Flowers panicled ...... 



3. Parastemon 



4- 



Prunus 



5. Pygeum 



6. RuBus 



7. Pyrus 



8. Eriobotrya 



1. PARINARIUM, Juss. 



Trees. Leaves entire, alternate. Flowers bisexual in panicled 

 corymbose racemes, bibracteolate, usually white. Calyx-tube 

 funnel-shaped or campanulate, lobes 5. Petals 5, sometimes 

 clawed. Stamens 6 to 30; filaments united in an incomplete ring 

 or in an unilateral bundle, all perfect or some anantherous. Carpel 

 I, adnate to one side of the calyx-tube, 2-celled; ovules 2 or i. 

 Drupe round, globose or ovoid, woody, 2-celled not pulpy. Species 

 about 50, tropics of both worlds. 



Leaves whitish beneath, woolly pubescent. 



Leaves thin, 1-5 to 3 in. long, thinly whitish, 



pubescent ; panicles lax 

 Leaves stiffly coriaceous, 3 to 4 in. long, thick, 



yellow woolly; panicles very short 

 Leaves 5 in. long, elliptic, wide 

 Leaves oblong 8 in. long; panicle large many- 

 nerved ...... 



Leaves glabrous. 



Flowers in sessile, solitary spikes. 



Stamens 10; fruit i in. through; flowers 

 small ....... 



Stamens 12 to 16; fruit much thicker; 

 flowers large ..... 



Flowers racemed or panicled; fruit woody; 

 flowers straight. 

 Leaves large, sub-sessile, base broad, 3 in. 

 wide ....... 



Leaves smaller, base narrowed; petioles -2 in. 



long; stamens 12 to 16 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, stiff ; stamens 10 . 

 Leaves broad, lanceolate; stamens 20 to 30 . 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate. 



Panicles short ; flowers curved ; petals 

 unequal ...... 



Panicle corymboid ; petals equal 



(i) P. costatum 



(2) P. rubiginosum 



(3) P. polyneurum 



(4) P. oblongifolium 



(5) P. spicatum 



(6) P. Maingayi 



(7) P. datum 



(8) P. scabrum 



(9) P. asperulum 

 (10) P, Kunstleri 



(11) P. heteropetalum 



[12) P. Griffithianum 



(i) P. costatum Bl. Mel. Bot. i. Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 311; 

 King, I.e. 277. 



Tree 60 ft. tall or more, 2 '5 to 3 ft. through. Branchlets 

 puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or ovate- 



