372 LI. ROSACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriolotrya. 



and others with E. dubia, but very distinct; a much larger tree, with longer 

 broader petioled leaves with slender petioles ; the top of the ovary being woolly also 

 well distinguishes it. 



7. E. ang-ustissima, Hook. fl. ; quite glabrous, leaves erect 2-4 in. 

 very narrow linear-lanceolate narrowed into the short petiole obtuse remotely 

 serrate, panicle small glabrous. 



KHASIA MTS. alt. 5000 ft. Simons ; Mooshye, and between Myrung and Nunklow, 

 Hook.f.fT. 



A very remarkable shrub, 4 ft. high, found by Thomson and myself in but two 

 spots, and there forming a low fastigiate brushwood on river banks, with stout dark 

 branches, and erect rigid leaves, not much exceeding i in. in breadth; nerves 8-10 

 pair, ascending ; petiole slender, in. Panicles if i n - J branches short, erect, gla- 

 brous. Flowers few, | in. diam. Calyx pubescent; tube short; lobes rounded. 

 Petals obovate or obcordate, claw woolly. Styles 3, slender, base and crown of ovary 

 woolly. 



** Petals quincuncial. Styles 5. 



8. ZS. elliptica, LindL in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 102 ; very robust, leaves 

 petioled 6-10 in. obovate or oblong-lanceolate entire or coarsely serrate glabrous 

 beneath, nerves about 20 pair, inflorescence densely clothed with soft spreading 

 wool, flowers sessile, styles 5, fruit small obovoid or globose. Wall. Cat. 667. 

 E. japonica, /3. elliptica, Wenzig in Linncea, 1874, 100. Mespilus Ouila, Ham. 

 in Don Prodr. 238. 



NEPAL, Wallich ; MISHMI HILLS, Griffith. 



Similar in many respects to E. japonica, but leaves much broader, glabrous be- 

 neath, with glabrous petioles 1-1 in. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx-lobes 

 triangular. Petals orbicular, claw woolly. Styles 5, woolly to the top ; stigmas large, 

 spathulate, recurved. Griffith's specimens have fruit, which is nearly globose up- 

 wards of in. diam. and 1 -seeded. 



9. IS. japonica, LindL ; branches very robust, and leaves beneath and 

 inflorescence densely softly woolly, leaves subsessile narrowly oblanceolate acu- 

 minate remotely serrate woolly beneath, petiole very short, fruit ovoid large 

 intruded at the top. W. $ Am. Prodr. 302 ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. Flor. Suppl. 

 32 ; Wight Ic. t. 226. Mespilus japonica, Banks-, Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 610. (The 

 Loquat.) 



Cultivated in many parts of India. 



Branchlets as thick as the little finger. Leaves 6-8 by l|-3 in., thick and stiffly 

 coriaceous ; base obtuse or narrowed into the very short stout woolly petiole ; nerves 

 12-15, very prominent beneath. Panicles 3-6 in. long and broad; branches very stout. 

 Flowers % in. diam., crowded, fragrant. Calyx-tube short ; lobes ovate, subacute. Petals 

 broadly ovate. Fruit l-l in. long, rather narrower, yellow, rarely as many as 5- 

 seeded. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



E. MACROCABPA, Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 443 ; evergreen, glabrous, leaves 

 5-6 in., from obovate to oblong-lanceolate shortly subobtusely acuminate quite entire 

 narrowed into the stout -f in. petiole coriaceous smooth glossy, fruit subglobose size 

 of a bullet glJbrous crowned with the calyx-limb, peduncle 1-3 in. stout simple glabrous 

 axillary in the upper leaves of the thick branchlets. BIRMA, rare in forests on N. E. 

 slopes of Kambala-toung ; and Pegu at Yomah, alt. 2-3000 ft., Kurz. 



20. FYRUS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves deciduous, simple or pinnate ; stipules deciduous. 

 Flowers white red or pink, in terminal cymes or corymbs ; bracts subulate op 



