Pyrus.] LI. EOSACEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) 373 



lineal'. Calyx-tube urceolate turbinate or obconic, lobes 5 erect or reflexed, per- 

 sistent or deciduous. Petals 5, quincuncially imbricate in bud. Stamens 20 or 

 more, filaments sometimes connate at the base. Disk annular, or coating the 

 calyx-tube. Carpels 2-5, connate and adnate to the calyx-tube, styles 2-5, free 

 or connate below, stigmas truncate ; ovules 2 in each cell, basal, collateral, 

 ascending. Fruit (a pome) fleshy, 2-5-celled ; cells with a membranous or car- 

 tilaginous often 2-valved endocarp, 1-2-seeded. Seeds when in pairs plano- 

 convex, testa coriaceous ; cotyledons amygdaloid. DISTBIB. N. temp, and cold 

 regions ; species 40. 



SECT. I. IVIalus. Leaves entire. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles more or less 

 united below. Fruit globose ; flesh of uniform consistence ; endocarp coriaceous 

 or like parchment. Flowers fascicled or subumbellate. 



1. P. IVIalus, Linn. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 96 ; leaves ovate shortly acumi- 

 nate crenate glabrous above tomentose beneath, calyx densely tomentose lobes 

 persistent, petals pink, fruit large very shortly peduncled. Roxb. FL 2nd. ii. 

 511 ; Brandis For. Fl. 205 ; Wall. Cat. 7111. Malus communis, Desf. ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, ii. 656 ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 153. 



Apparently wild in the NORTH WESTERN HIMALAYA, ascending to 9000 ft., and to 

 11,400 in WESTERN TIBET; cultivated in N. W. India, Central India, the Dekkan, 

 &c. DISTRIB. from Persia westwards to the Mediterranean. 



A tree, rarely exceeding 30 ft. Branches and foliage at length glabrous. Leaves 

 2-3 in. ; petiole half the length of the blade, tomentose or woolly. Flowers 1^-2 in. 

 diam. Calyx-lobes broad-ovate, acute, persistent. Petals with a tomentose claw. 

 Styles 5, united below the middle. Fruit globose, intruded at both ends. 



2. P. baccata, Linn. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 97 ; leaves elliptic-ovate acu- 

 minate serrulate glabrous, calyx glabrous, peduncles very long, petals white, fruit 

 small globose. P. baccata v. himalaica, Maxim. Diag. Dec. xv. 167 ; Wenzig 

 in Linncea, 1874, 44 ; Brandis For. Fl. 205 ; Watt. Cat. 681. Malus baccata, 

 Desf. ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 154. (The Siberian Crab.) 



Temperate Himalaya; from KASHMIR to KUMAON, alt. 6-10,000 ft. (sometimes 

 cultivated), and in BHOTAN, alt. 7500 ft., Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 6000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Siberia to Manchuria. 



A small tree, trunk short, head rounded. Leaves 2-3 in., rarely almost orbicular, 

 young glabrous or as well as the petiole pubescent ; petiole half the length of the 

 blade. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., in sessile umbels or fascicles, rarely with the pedicels 

 collected on a short peduncle ; pedicels slender, 2-3 in. Calyx glabrous or puberulous, 

 without tomentum within ; lobes lanceolate, deciduous. Petals very variable in 

 breadth. Styles 3-5, nearly free, very woolly at their united bases. Fruit \-l in. 

 diam., red or scarlet, intruded at the base. The fruit of this is much smaller than in 

 the common form of the plant, and often subpyriform like that figured in Pallas 

 Flora Rossica, i. t. x. 



3. P. sikkimensis, Hook.f.) leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate serrulate tomentose beneath, calyx woolly, peduncles very long, fruit small 

 shortly pyriform. 



SIKKIM HIMAXAYA, alt. 7-10,000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Very similar to P. baccata, but the leaves (which attain 5 by 3 in.) are more 

 acutely serrate, woolly beneath and on the petiole and on the midrib above, the pedun- 

 cles and calyx are also very woolly. It is marked by Decaisne as a distinct species 

 (of Malus), but I suspect it will prove a form of P. baccata. The claw of the petals 

 is woolly ; the limb broadly obovate-oblong or almost orbicular ; the styles are united 

 below the middle into a perfectly glabrous column ; the calyx-lobes deciduous ; the 



