378 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Pyrus. 



pubescent in flowers, glabrous in fruit. Flowers | in. diam., white ; pedicels slender. 

 Calyx-tube obconic, hairy ; lobes triangular. Petals broadly oblong, glabrous. Sta- 

 mens long. Disk tumid, 10-lobed, puberulous. Styles 2, slender, united below the 

 middle or free, glabrous. Fruit \ in. diam., smooth, endocarp thin ; cells 2-seeded. 

 Seeds plano-convex. 



** Leaves more or less ovate (rarely obovate), petiole slender. Disk in the 

 umbo of the fruit tumid or flat not lobed. 



17. P. khasiana, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 169 in part (Micronieles) ; 

 leaves 4 in. elliptic-obovate rather suddenly acuminate serrate, nerves very ob- 

 lique nearly straight, fruit in. diain. spotted 4-celled. 



KHASIA MTS ; at Nungbree wood, alt. 5000 ft., Griffith. 



A tolerably large tree, in foliage more like P. rhamnoides than any of the following 

 species, having many nearly straight nerves. The only specimens (Griffith, 2078, 

 1044 of Posth. Papers, ii. 67) are in old leaf and fruit, which latter Griffith describes 

 as of the size of a cherry; it is constantly 4-celled ; the endocarp thick and coriaceous ; 

 the cells narrow 1 -seeded, the pulp granular, and is 4-angled when dry and has a 

 narrow depressed umbo with a conical centre. 



18. P. g'ranulosa, Bertol, Piant. Nuov. Asiat. ii. 10, t. 3 ; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate long-acuminate serrate, base rounded or acute, nerves 8-10 pair 

 spreading arched, fruits few in a corymb -f in. diam. spotted 4-celled. P. 

 sikkimensis, Wenzig in Linncea, 1874, 58, in part; Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. 

 i. 442. P. Karensium, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc., 1872, ii. 306 j 1873, ii. 

 232. 



KHASIA MTS. Griffith ; near Churra, Myrung and Mamloo, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. 

 $ T. T. MARTABAN, alt. 7000 ft., Kurz. 



A shrub or small tree, in a fruiting state perfectly glabrous, branches with oblong 

 white lenticels. Leaves 4-5 in., stiff ; nerves prominent beneath ; petiole 1-1 \ in. 

 Fruiting corymb with smooth branches. Fruit with the flesh of large granules, en- 

 docarp thickly coriaceous, cells narrow ; umbo small depressed with a small conical 

 centre. Differs from P. Jchasiana in the ovate leaves with arching nerves. 



19. P. polycarpa, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 long-acuminate serrate, base rounded or acute, nerves 6-8 pair spreading arched, 

 corymbs effuse perfectly glabrous, fruit i in. unspotted. Pyrus, b. Herb. Ind. 

 Or.H.f.$T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt 5-6000 ft., Griffith, Simons, &c. 



A small tree, foliage remarkably similar to that of P. granulosa, but the nerves 

 fewer, and at once distinguished by the very small unspotted fruit, with only 2 cells 

 both broad, and small seeds with thick plano-convex cotyledons. The only flow- 

 ering specimen I have is from M. Simons, in it the corymb is much branched, per- 

 fectly glabrous, and smooth, somewhat warted in fruit. Flowers \ in. diam. ; pedicel 

 slender. Calyx-tube rather pyriform ; limb expanded ; lobes triangular-ovate. Pe- 

 tals nearly orbicular, glabrous, concave. Disk inconspicuous, glabrous. Stamens 

 long, slender. Styles 2, united to the middle, quite glabrous. Fruit rather ovoid, 

 |-| in., umbo large for its size, depressed with a conical centre. 



20. P. cuspid at a, Bertol. Piant. Nuov. Asiat. ii. 9, t. 1 : young parts 

 flocculent, leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate long-petioled caudate-acuminate serrate, 

 nerves 1G-12 spreading arched, corymbs contracted densely warted when in 

 fruit, fruit small not spotted 2- very rarely 3 -celled. Micromeles verrucosa, 

 Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 169. Rosacearum ? frutex, Brown in Wall. Cat. 7467. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Wallich, &c. 



A large tree, with pale foliage ; branchlets stout, studded with oblong lenticels ; 



