376 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) \Pyrus. 



oblong lanceolate and acuminate sharply serrate green beneath, petals orbicular. 

 P. ursina, Herb. Strach. fy Wint. No. 5. Sorbus Aucuparia, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 657. 



Western temperate Himalaya, from KASHMIR to KUMAON, alt. 11,500-13,000 ft. 

 DISTEIB. Turkestan and from the Caucasus westward to the Atlantic, and from Siberia 

 to N. China and Japan. 



A small tree, young parts with white cottony tomentum which sometimes persists 

 on the petioles and inflorescence. Leaves 4-8 in. ; leaflets f-l in., entire towards 

 the rounded base. Corymbs usually quite glabrous. Flowers ^-^ in. diam., pedicels 

 short. Calyx glabrous, lobes broad short rounded or subacute. Petals white, orbicu- 

 lar. Styles 2-5, quite free, woolly at the base. Fruit globose, |- in. diam., red. 

 Strachey and Winterbottom's specimens have a fine glaucous bloom on the fruit which 

 appears to have been blue like those of P. foliolosa, but the specimens want the rusty 

 tomentum of that species. 



11. P. foliolosa, Wall PL As. Ear. ii. 81, t. 189 ; Cat. 667, in part ; 

 pubescence on leaves beneath petioles and inflorescence rusty brown, leaflets 

 10-15 pair linear-oblong acute or obtuse apiculate sharply serrate pale brown 

 when dry beneath, petals orbicular-obovate, style very short. P. ursina, 

 Wall. Cat. 675 ; Srandis For. Fl. 206. Sorbus ursina and foliosa (error for 

 foliolosa), Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 159. S. ursina, Wenzig in Linn&a, 1874, 

 75. 



Temperate Himalaya, from KTJNAWTJR to SIKKIM, alt. 9-12,000 ft. 



Very near P. Aucuparia, but a more rubust plant with red-brown tomentum on 

 the petioles inflorescence and midribs of the leaves beneath, at length glabrate ; the 

 flowers also are smaller, more densely crowded, with linear bracts intermixed, and have 

 much stouter peduncles and pedicels. Fruit small, bluish-red, ovoid, globose or 

 turbinate. Styles usually 5. The flowers in Sikkim specimens are greenish white 

 and rather foetid, but Gen. Munro sends a specimen from Kunawur with red flowers. 

 Wallich describes the fruit as red. There are two specimens under this name and 

 number in Wallich's Herbarium, one with the lithographed ticket 677 attached has 

 also a MSS. label stating it to have been procured from G-ossain Than (a locality in 

 Nepal which Wallich did not himself visit) ; the other specimen has a similar MSS. 

 ticket stating it to be found at Sheopore by himself; on both tickets he has written 

 ' an ab. ursina, Wall, distincta ? ' Of these the first in no way differs from his three 

 sheets of P. ursina (Cat. 675); whilst the second is a totally different plant, viz. P. 

 Wallickii, mihi. The description in Wallich's 'Plant. As. Ear.' is that of his 

 foliolosa (and ursina} except in that he describes the tomentum of the young plant 

 as white, whereas it is rusty-red, as he says it is on the fully developed leaves &c. 

 As the ursina of Wallich's Catalogue and Herbarium is the foliolosa of his Plant. 

 As. Rar., the latter name must replace the former. 



12. P. microphylla, Watt. Cat. 676 ; nearly glabrous, slender, leaflets 

 10-17 pair small linear-oblong acute deeply and acutely serrate, corymbs long- 

 peduncled lax-flowered, petals small orbicular. Sorbus microphylla, Dene. Mem. 

 Fam. Pom. 159 ; Wenzig in Linncea, 1874, 76. 



Temperate Himalaya ; SIRMORE, Webb (in Herb. Wall.} ; SIKKIM, alt. 10-14,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



Possibly only a form (or young state ?) of P. foliolosa or Aucuparia, but a very 

 much more slender subscandent plant with more deeply serrate leaflets, |- in. long, 

 very slender flattened petioles, longer peduncles and pedicels and large bluish berries 

 and 5 styles. Wallich's specimens have no flowers, those of Sikkim ones are red, and 

 the globose fruit is white or pale blue. What pubescence is present resembles that of 

 P. foliolosa. It is remarkable that no one since Capt. Webb has found this in the 

 Western Himalaya. 



13. P. WallichH, Hook. fl. ; young parts clothed with white wool, 

 leaflets 5-9 pair 1-2 in. linear-oblong acute or apiculate obscurely serrate 



