374 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pyrus. 



stamens about 25 ; the fruit speckled and very good stewed. The specks on the fruit 

 are like those of P. variolosa, but smaller, 



SECT. II. Pyrus proper. Leaves entire. Petals white, claw glabrous. 

 Ovary 6-celled ; styles free. Fruit globose or pyriform, flesh granular. Flowers 

 in few-flowered corymbs. 



4. P. communis, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 653 ; leaves oblong 

 ovate acute crenulate or subentire hardly exceeding the slender petiole, corymbs 

 short, calyx-lobes ovate or lanceolate persistent, fruit pyriforni. Roxb. FL Ind. 

 ii. 510 ; Brandis For. Fl. 203. (The Common Pear.) 



Believed to be wild in KASHMIR (Brandis) ; cultivated in the N. W. HIMALAYA, 

 alt. 2-8000 ft., and in WESTERN TIBET to alt. 10,000 ft. DISTRIB. N. Persia west- 

 ward to S. Europe, 



A tree or shrub, glabrous or with woolly young parts and inflorescence, young 

 often spinous. Leaves variable in breadth and in length of point, of young plant 

 lobed. Corymbs terminating short shoots. Flowers 1^ in. diam. Calyx-lobes 

 variable. Petals obovate, white. Fruit 1-2 inches, gradually narrowed into the 

 peduncle. 



5. P. Pashia, Ham. in Don Prodr. 236; young parts woolly, leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate crenulate the young serrulate, glabrous 

 when old, cymes corymbose or subumbellate woolly, calyx-lobes acute deciduous, 

 petals white and pink, fruit globose warted. Wenzig. in Linncea, 1874, Decaisne 

 Jard. Fruit., Le Poirier, t. 7 (Pirus) ; Kurz, For. FL Brit. Burm. 441. P. 

 variolosa, Wall. Cat. 680; Brandis For. FL 204. P. verruculosa, Bertol. 

 Plant. Nuov. Asiat. ii. 10, t. 2. P. nepalensis, Herb. Ham. et. Hort. 



_ Temperate Himalaya from KASHMIR to BHOTAN, alt. 2500-8000 ft. (sometimes cul- 

 tivated, Brandis), KHASIA MTS., alt. 5000 ft. AVA, Wallich. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



A deciduous tree, in a young state like a Cratcegus with 3 lobed and doubly 

 sharply serrated leaves glabrous or woolly beneath, and often spinescent branches ; 

 branches dark, woody. Leaves 2-4 in., acuminate, sometimes caudate, glabrous and 

 black when dry ; petiole slender, half the length of the blade. Inflorescence very va- 

 riable, usually corymbose with a very short peduncle and woolly, but the peduncle 

 sometimes very thin, or is all but absent when the flowers are fascicled or umbelled ; 

 pedicels -2 in., slender in flower, stout in fruit. Flowers 1 in. diam. Calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute, usually very woolly, especially externally. Petals orbicular-obovate. 

 Stamens about 30. Styles 3-5, quite free, more or less woolly at the base. Fruit 

 very variable in size, f-lg- in. diam., dark yellow-brown, scurfy, coA r ered with raised 

 white spots, austere, eatable when decaying. A very variable plant, especially in the 

 inflorescence ; I was inclined to suppose that Khasia specimens with acutely serrated 

 leaves and longer pedicels were different specifically, but I suspect the leaves were 

 from young trees, and there is every gradation of pedicel from -2 in. 



6. P. kumaoni, Dene. Jard. Fruit, under Pirus Pashia; leaves ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate crenulate, glabrous, base acute or 

 rounded, cymes corymbose glabrous, calyx-lobes broad rounded glabrous except 

 the woolly margins, fruit globose warted. 



Western Himalaya, from KASHMIR to KTTMAON, alt. 5-8000 ft., Eoyle, Strach. $ 

 Winterbottom, &c. 



Very similar in foliage to P. Pashia but at once distinguishable by the more gla- 

 brous corymbs and broad rounded calyx-lobes. 



7. P. Jacquemontiana, Dene. Jard. Fruit. (Pirus) t. 8 ; leaves ovate 

 or oblong-lanceolate acute crenulate glabrous, base rounded, corymbs laxly to- 

 mentose, lobes tomentose above, young fruit glabrate. 



