Osteomeles. | ROSACEAR. 119 
tube ~~ eo and setose, the 4 brownish lobes of the same length, and 
deciduous. Stamens 2, exserted, the anthers didymous, rounded. Achene 
time, ai glabrous. Style short, with a thick capitate and fimbriate, 
searcely exserted stigma. 
Top of Mt. Eeka! Maui, and table land of the highest mountain of Kauai, in 
swampy ground, where the ate forms tufts or tussocks of ee character. 
4, OSTEOMELES, Lindl. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the carpels, with 5 persistent lobes. Petals 5, 
oblong, patent. Stamens 10 to many, inserted in the throat of the calyx. 
Carpels 5, cohering with each other and with the calyx; styles as many, 
with thickened truncate stigmas. Ovule 1 in each carpel, erect. Drupe 
fleshy, its 5 pyrenae crustaceous, cohering, their apices often free from 
the calyx. Seed compressed, with nembrentiie testa and plano-convex 
cotyledons. Tre r shrubs with alternate simple or impari-pinnate 
leaves. Stipules small. Flowers corymbose, bracteolate. 
A genus of about 9 species; 7 of which belong to the S. American Andes and 1 to 
pan. 
1. O. anthyllidifolia, Lindl. Transact. Linn. Soc. 13, p. 98, tab. 8. — 
DC. Prod. II, 633. — A much branching stiff shrub, 3—6 ft. high, with 
a grayish tomentum. Leaves about 2‘ long, impari-pinnate, with 10 or 11 
s of leaflets 
Leaflets sessile, oblong, 6—8" > l'/2—2", obtuse, mucronate, entire, 
coriaceous with evanescent veins, nee above, appressedly pubescent 
underneath. Stipules linear or subulate, 2—3“. Flowers in a subcorym- 
bose panicle, the lower peduncles in oe axils of true leaves, 1‘ long or 
more and generally 3-flowered, the pedicels 1—6" long; the upper pe- 
duncles shorter, 2—1-flowered, supported by subulate bracts. Calyx sub- 
ten by 2 subulate bracteoles, tomentose, campanulate, 2’ long, 5-fid, 
the lobes lanceolate, acute, at length reflexed. Pe tals white, 3’ long. 
Stamens 15—20, reddish, shorter than the petals, the anthers small 
ovoid, versatile. Styles 2“, woolly below, clavate, wi ith terminal stigma, 
, and exserted from the fruiting calyx. Fruit white, globose, 
the angular-convex woody pyrenae cohering to the top, surrounded by 
the fleshy tomentose calyx and crowned by its lobes. — Hook. & Arn. 
in Bot. Beech. p. 82. — Cae Bot. U. S. E. E. p. 50 
Common on all islands at elevation of 1000—3000 ft., ek often descending to near 
ngage Nat. name: «Uulei». The fruit is quite un 
this Order belongs the uat, Eriobotrya secon Ces is much cultivated 
for its pleasant, fruit. Rhaphiolepis Indica is rebl be found in gardens, but there is no 
g stat pana doubt in Hooker & Be Bentham’s 
Genera Plantarum. The Peach tree, (aes Persica, thrives remarkably well in a 
few seedling varieties, and bears abundantly from the seashore up to 3000 ft., while its 
near congener, the Almond tree, never produces fruit. The Apple tree, again, does w 
up to the same height and higher, w while trials with the Pear, Plum, Cherry and Apeieos 
