370 LI. ROSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriobotrya. 



19. ERIOBOTRYA, Lindl 



Small or large trees. Leaves simple, entire or serrate, very coriaceous; 

 stipules lanceolate or broad. Flowers in thyrsoid panicles, white. Calyx- 

 tube turbinate obconic or clavate ; lobes small, erect or spreading, persistent. 

 Petals 5, contorted or imbricate in bud, obovate or brbicular, usually ob- 

 lique and notched, margins sinuate, claw glabrous or woolly. Ovary 2-5-celled ; 

 styles 5, connate and woolly below ; ovules 2 in each cell, basal, ascending, pla- 

 centa sometimes cupuliform. Fruit a succulent or dry rarely 1-2-celled berry ; 

 endocarp membranous, 1- rarely 2-3-seeded. Seeds large, ovoid and cylindric or 

 flattened on one side, testa hard coriaceous and mucilaginous ; cotyledons very 

 thick. DISTKIB. Himalaya, Malay Peninsula, China, Japan. 



I cannot distinguish Eriobotrya from Pkotinia, except by the inflorescence ; all the 

 other characters given by Decaisne break down amongst the species enumerated 

 under it ; thus the petals are contorted in all but elliptica and japonica, and their 

 claws are glabrous in several ; the styles are only two in all but the above, and one 

 other, which has 3 styles ; the crown of, the ovary is glabrous in E. dubia, and I do 

 not find the calyptriform process-of the placenta in any but japonica; but I have not 

 examined all for this character, and it is one difficult to detect in dry specimens. 



* Petals contorted in bud. Styles 2 or 3. 



1. . petiolata, Hook.f.\ robust, leaves 6-9 in. long-petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate thickly coriaceous entire or obtusely serrate glabrous be- 

 neath, nerves 12-14 pair, inflorescence clothed with appressed tomentum, 

 flowers pedicelled, calyx-lobes rounded, styles 2. E. elliptica, Herb. Ind. Or. H. 

 f.SfT.-, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 145 in part. 



Eastern Himalaya ; SIKKIM, alt. 5-9000 ft. BHOTAN at Tongsa, Griffith. 



A tree ; branchlets glabrous. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 6-9 by 3-3 in. ; base 

 acute; petiole 1^-2 in. Panicles 3-6 in. long and broad, branched from the base, very 

 spreading, clothed with rusty tomentum as are the very young leaves on' both sur- 

 faces. Flowers % in. diam., not crowded, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube short, ob- 

 conic; lobes also short, semicircular. Petals contorted, orbicular, concave, claw 

 glabrous. Misled by the provisional naming of the Indian collections distri- 

 buted by Dr. Thomson and myself, Decaisne has included this under E. elliptica, 

 from which it differs entirely in the longer petioles, appressed almost scurfy tomen- 

 tum of the panicle and form of calyx. 



2. E. latifolia, Hook. f. stout, leaves 6-8 in. long-petioled broadly 

 elliptic acute at both ends quite entire glabrous above beneath with deciduous 

 tomentum, nerves 10-12 pair, panicle softly tomentose. 



on Thoung G-yne, alt. 5000 ft., Thos. Lobb. 

 A shrub, 12 ft. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 3-4 in. broad, opaque above, quite 

 glabrous beneath when old, without a trace of serratures, narrowed into the stout 

 petiole which is 1^-2 in. long, and glabrous except the young leaves which are 

 softly woolly. Panicle 6 in. long and as broad, much branched, clothed with rusty 

 pubescence. Flowers % in. diam., crowded. Calyx-tube broadly obconic; lobes 

 rounded. Petals contorted, broadly obovate or orbicular, claw glabrous. Styles 2. 



3. E. longifolia, Hook. f. ; robust, leaves 7-10 in. shortly petioled nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate acuminate quite entire narrowed into the petiole, nerves 25-30 

 pair almost horizontal, panicle glabrate. Photinia longifolia, Dene. Mem. Fam. 

 Pom. 142. 



