928 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART UI 
2 39. P. cRaNpiro\L1A Lindl. The large-leaved Aronia. 
Identification, Lindl. Hort. Trans., 7. p.'232. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1154. ; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 649. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1154.; and our fig. 650. 
Spec. Char., &c. Stem erect, and, as well as the branches, smoothish. Leaves 
oblong, or obovate, acute, glabrous. Fruit spherical, and, as well as the 
calyxes, glabrous. Corymbs few-flowered, 
coarctate. Fruit with a villous disk. (Don’s 
Miil., ii. p. 649.) Native of North America ; 
introduced in 1810, and flowering in May and 
June. Its flowers are white, its fruit dark 
purple. A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 5 ft. 
high ; bearing a profusion of flowers, and dark 
purple fruit ; and, on that account, and also on 
account of the purple tinge of its leaves, highly 
ornamental. Dr. Lindley considers it as the 
most valuable species of this division of Pyrus 
that has hitherto been described. 

§ viii. Chamaeméspilus Dec. 
Sect. Char. _ Petals upright, conniving, concave. Styles 2. Pome ovate. 
Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. (Dec. Prod., ii. 
p- 637.) ° 
2 40. P. Coameme’spitus Lindl. The dwarf Medlar. 
Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 98.; Dec. 
Prod., 2. p.637.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 649. 
Synonymes. Crate\gus Chamzméspilus Jacq. Austr., t.231.5 
Méspilus Chamezméspilus Lin. Sp., 685.; Sérbus Chame- 
méspilus Crantz Austr., 83. t. 1. f. 3. ; the bastard Quince. 
Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 231.; Crantz Austr., 83. t. 1. 
f. 3.; and our fig. 651. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- 
brous, except bearing on the under surface, 
when young, down, which is deciduous. 
Flowers white, tinted with rose. (Dec. Prod., 
ii. p. 637.) A shrub, a native of rough 
mountainous places in Europe; growing to 
the height of 5ft. or 6ft., and flowering in 
May and June. It was introduced in 1683, 
and is occasionally met with in collections. 
There are plants of it at Messrs. Loddiges, 
and in the Camberwell Nursery, at Is. 6d. 
each; and as the plant forms a compact bush, 
and flowers and fruits in the greatest abun- 
dance, it merits to be much more extensively 
introduced into collections than it appears to 
have hitherto been. It grafts beautifully on 
the common hawthorn; and, indeed, whoever 
has a quickset hedge may have a collection of 
all the species of this genus. 

App. i. Species of Pyrus not sufficiently known. 
P. alnifolia Lindl. in Lin. Trans., 13. p. 98., is a native of North America, at Fort Mandon, with 
glabrous roundish leaves, feather-nerved, and rather glaucous beneath. The fruit black and 
sugary. 
P. tomentosa Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637. 5 Malus tomentdsa Dum. Cours., ed. 2. 5. p.438.; is a native of 
Siberia, said to be allied to P. baccata ; but the flowers, as well as fruit, are unknown. : 
P. rubictinda Hoffmans. (Verz., 1824, p. 192.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.637.) has the leaves oval-acuminate, 
with a fruit pony red and partly yellow, somewhat resembling the common apple, but covered with 
a glaucous bloom. Its native country is unknown. 
