Pyrus.~\ LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 377 



towards the tip, glaucous beneath, corymbs very tomentose compound, petals 

 broadly obovate. P. foliolosa, Wall. Cat. 677, in part. Sorbus foliosa, Wenzig 

 in Linn&a, 1874, 75, excl. synon. 



Central and Eastern temperate Himalaya; NEPAL, Wallich. SIKKIM, alt. 

 6500-9000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A small tree, young parts densely woolly, old glabrate except the corymb. Leaves 

 4-6 in ; leaflets coriaceous, sometimes perfectly entire, base very unequal-sided, mid- 

 rib stout ; nerves numerous, slender. Corymbs 2-3 in. diam. ; peduncle and pedicels 

 stout. Flowers -| in. diam., white. Styles 3, glabrous. Fruit (unripe) very small, 

 ovoid, in. diam. A very distinct species. 



14. P. insignia, Hook. f. ; very robust, leaflets 4-6 pair 3-4 in. linear- 

 oblong acutely obscurely crenulate very coriaceous glaucous beneath, fruiting 

 corymbs excessively compound, branches very stout. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-1 1,000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



A small very robust tree ; branchlets nearly as thick as the little finger, bud-scales 

 rigid, chestnut-brown, shining ; young parts clothed with long rather silky rusty brown 

 wool, old glabrous. Leaves 6-10 in.; leaflets soon glabrate, apiculate in the sinus 

 between the obscure crenatures, which are incurved in old leaflets, pale and rather 

 glaucous beneath ; base unequal-sided ; young petioles densely silky. Flowering co- 

 rymbs appearing with the young leaves, densely rufously woolly, with stout peduncle 

 and branches. Flowers crowded, \ in. diam. ; bracts linear. Calyx obconic, short, 

 teeth triangular. Styles 3, glabrous. Fruiting corymbs branched from the base, 6 in. 

 long and as broad ; branches covered with oblong white spots, pedicels short stout. 

 Fruit globose or broadly ovoid, 3-celled, | in. diam. (when dry). 



SECT. V. JMicromeles (Dene. Gen.). Leaves simple. Calyx-lobes 

 deciduous. Ovary 2- 3-celled ; styles 2-3, free or united. Fruit globose, um- 

 bonate ; endocarp membranous or coriaceous. 



* Leaves shortly petioled, narrowed to both ends ; nerves very oblique close set 

 nearly straight, very prominent. 



15. IP. Griffith!!, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 170 (Micromeles) ; leaves 

 5-9 in. young woolly beneath elliptic acuminate serrulate, corymbs very many- 

 flowered densely woolly, fruit small. P. sikkimensis y. microcarpa, Wenzig in 

 Linncea, 1874, 59. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-9000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



A tree, with stout branches ; young twigs and leaves covered beneath with a soft 

 cottony wool that is deciduous in flakes. Leaves coriaceous, opaque above, paler be- 

 neath ; nerves 12-15 pair, slightly curved; petiole \ in., stout, channelled. Corymb 

 5-6 in. diam., branched from the base, most densely woolly. Flowers * in. diam., 

 white. Calyx-tube obconic, woolly ; lobes ovate, membranous, subacute. Petals ob- 

 ovate, glabrous. Stamens long. Disk tumid, 10-lobed, woolly. Styles 2, slender, 

 glabrous. Fruit size of a pea, 1-2-celled, cells 2-seeded. Seeds plano-convex. Very 

 similar to Pyrus vestita. 



16. P. rhamnoides, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 169 in part (Micromeles) ; 

 leaves 3-5 in. very young hairy beneath elliptic acuminate serrulate, petiole 

 short slender, corymbs tomentose many-flowered, fruit small not spotted 2-celled. 

 Photinia polyneura, King in Herb. Calc. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 7-9000 ft., J. D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



A tree, very young branches and leaves tomentose and hairy, soon glabrous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, very variable in breadth, |-2 in.; nerves 12-14 pair, very pro- 

 minent beneath, slightly curved; petiole ^-f in. Corymbs branched from the base, 



