Pynis.~\ LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 379 



twigs nnd young parts clothed with a flocculent cotton that falls away in white flakes. 

 Leaves 3-4 in., rather membranous, pale green, not shining, point very long, coarsely 

 serrate, base aculte or rounded ; petiole very slender. Corymb more rounded than in 

 its allies, white and tomentose when young, more rusty or glabrous when old ; 

 branches rather short ; covered when fruiting with raised lenticels. Flowers % in. 

 diam.; pedicels slender. Calyx-tube pyriform; limb expanded, glabrous within, 

 teeth triangular, acute. Petals obovate, woolly within in bud, claw pubescent. Sta- 

 mens slender. Disk glabrous, inconspicuous. Styles 2, very slender, united below 

 the middle, glabrous. Fruit | in. diam., rather pyriform, crown tubular \ its own 

 diameter, with a deep depression and conical centre. 



21. P. ferrug-inea, Hook. f. ; branchlets leaves beneath and corymbs 

 densely clothed with rusty wool, leaves very shortly petioled broadly elliptic 

 suddenly acuminate serrulate, corymbs few-flowered, styles 3. Sorbus sikkim- 

 ensis var. ferruglnea, Wenziy in Linncea, 1874, 60. 



BHOTAK, Griffith. 



Branchlets with few lenticels. Leaves 2^-3 in., lower half or one-third quite en- 

 tire, upper surface sparsely pubescent or glabrate ; nerves 6-8 pair, spreading and 

 arching; petiole in., densely woolly. Corymbs densely woolly, of few primary sub- 

 umbellate branches A- f in., which are twice or thrice divided into erect stout pedi- 

 cels. Flowers | in. diam. Calyx-tube pyriform ; lobes short, triangular, acute, very 

 deciduous. Petals obovate, woolly on the face and claw. Stamens slender. Disk 

 not raised. Styles usually 3, glabrous, united to the middle ; ovules inserted in the 

 middle of the axis. 



22. P. Thomson!, King MSS. ; glabrous, leaves very shortly petioled, 

 elliptic-lanceolate or -oblanceolate acuminate serrate above the middle, corymbs 

 glabrous, styles 2-4, fruit f in. diam. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-10,000 ft.,7". D. H., C. B. Clarke. 



A large tree; branches glabrous, sparingly lenticellate. Leaves 3 in., brown when 

 dry, apparently glabrous at all stages ; base acute, rarely rounded or obtuse ; nerves 

 8-12 pair, spreading and arched ; petiole -i in. Corymb of few primary subumbel- 

 late erect main branches, 1 in. long, di-trichotomously forked. Flowers \ in. diam. ; 

 pedicels slender. Calyx-tube pyriform ; limb expanded ; teeth ovate, obtuse. Petals 

 obovate, claw woolly. Stamen stout. Styles stout, united at the middle or base, 

 glabrous ; ovules attached in the middle of the axis. Fruit with few white spots, 

 crown sunk. Seeds tumid. Young flowering specimens of this were distributed as 

 Photinia arguta, Wall., var. ?, and are cited by Decaisne under his Micromeles verru- 

 cosa (Pyrus cuspidata, Bertol.) from which it differs in the glabrous narrow leaves 

 with short petioles serrated only beyond the middle. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



P. (MALUS) SIEVERSII, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. ii. 222. A Soongarian species, closely allied 

 to P. baccata, differing in being branched from the base, is enumerated by Decaisne 

 (Mem. Earn. Pirus) as having been found in Kashmir by Jacquemont. 



P. (MICKOMELES) CASTANEIFOLIA, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 169; " leaves oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate base obtuse acutely serrate glabrous, petiole rather long 

 slender, peduncle and pedicels floccose when young, fruit small. Sorbus sikkimensis, 

 Wenzig in Linncea, 1874, 58." Eastern Bengal, Griffith,No. 2077-1. I cannot iden- 

 tify this. 



P. (SOBBUS) SIKKIMENSIS, Wenzig in Linncea, 1874, 58; evidently includes more 

 than one species from Sikkim and the Khasia Mts. Thus, var. a., the Sikkim plant 

 included under this variety, I cannot recognise by the description, though it is of a plant 

 stated to be found by myself; the Khasia one includes P. granulosa and verrucosa. 

 Var. )8. oblongifolia, this I do not recognise though it professes to be a Sikkim Disco- 

 very of mine. Var. 7. microcarpa, a Sikkim plant, is I suppose P. Griffithii, to which 



