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



Wenzig doubtfully (and erroneously) refers P. Nussia, Don. Var. 8. ferruginea is P. 

 ferruginea. 



P. CRENATA. Don, Prodr. 237 ; " leaves long-petioled ovate acute crenate glabrous 

 above, young beneath and branchlets white-tomentose, corymbs simply woolly, calyx- 

 lobes ovate acute. Suemba in Upper Nepal, Hamilton. Obs. P. Pollveria differs in 

 the shorter broader serrate not crenate leaves and in the more numerous flowers." I 

 do not recognise the above. Can it be the common pear ? 



21. FHOTINIA, Lindl 



Evergreen small trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, quite entire or serrulate ; 

 stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers small, corymbose, white. Calyx-tube ob- 

 conic ; limb 5-cleft ; lobes short, persistent. Petals 5, contorted or imbricate in 

 bud, orbicular or obovate, claw glabrous or woolly. Stamens 20 or more. 

 Ovary with a conical pubescent or woolly crown, 2- rarely 3-celled ; styles 2, 

 rarely 3, free, or combined at the base, short ; ovules 2, collateral, nearly basal 

 in each cell, ascending. Fruit small, globose or ovoid, 1-2-seeded ; flesh rather 

 hard ; endocarp crustaceous or membranous. Seeds obovoid, triquetrous or com- 

 pressed, nearly as long as the fruit, testa coriaceous. DISTKIB. Eastern tropical 

 and subtropical Asia ; species 7 or 8. 



1. P. Lindleyana, Wight fy Arn. Prodr. 302 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic oblong or ovate acute crenulate or entire base rounded, nerves 13-15 

 pair faint, petiole long stout, flowers | in. diam., claw of petal villous, fruit tur- 

 binate or subglobose. Wight Ic. t. 228 ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 141. P. No- 

 toniana, Wall. Cat. 671, not of Wight fy Arn. P serrulata, Lindl. y. Wenzig in 

 Linncea, 1874, 94. 



NILGHIRRI HILLS, Noton, Wight, &c. 



A small tree ? everywhere glabrous except the crown of the ovary and claw of the 

 petals ; branches stout. Leaves 3-6 in., very thickly coriaceous, not shining on either 

 surface, flat; nerves nearly horizontal ; petiole l- 2 in., cylindric. Corymbs 3-5 in. 

 diam., much branched from the base, branches stout. Flowers \ in. diam., pedi- 

 celled; bracts subulate. Calyx-lobes rounded. Petals orbicular-obovate, claw dis- 

 tinct. Styles 2, very stout, short. Fruit \ in. long, smooth, glaucous ; endocarp 

 crustaceous. Wallich's P. Notoniana is only a form of Lindleyana, with the crena- 

 tures few and confined to near the top of the leaf. 



2. P. Notoniana, Wight $ Arn. Prodr. 302 (not of Wall. Cat.} ; leaves 

 elliptic ovate oblong or lanceolate acuminate quite entire base acute or rounded, 

 nerves very many and slender, petiole long (1-1^ in.), corymbs pubescent or 

 glabrous, flowers in. diam., fruit globose. Wight Ic. 991 ; III. t. 86 ; Dene. 

 Mem. Fam. Pom. 141 ; Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 192. P. Blurnei, Done. I c. 142. 

 Eriobotrya integrifolia, Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 442. 



NILGHIBBI and PULNEY MTS., Wight, &c. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. MAB- 

 TABAN, alt. 7-7200 ft., Kurz. CEYLON; Central province, alt. 6-7000 ft. DISTBIB. 

 Java. 



A small tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, which is finely pubescent. Leaves 

 2-6 in., very variable, sometimes caudate-acuminate, thickly coriaceous, the numerous 

 nerves very delicate, hardly shining above; petiole f-2 in., flat or grooved above. 

 Corymb excessively branched, 3-10 in. diam.; branches slender in flower; stout in 

 fruit. Flowers pedicelled, white. Calyx-lobes rounded. Petals orbicular, claw gla- 

 brous or slightly villous. Fruit \ in. diam., blue, glaucous ; endocarp membranous. 

 Seeds compressed, radicular end incurved. I refer Kurz's plant here on the authority 

 of his citation of Beddome ; he describes the leaves as sometimes cuneate-oblong and 

 with a few inconspicuous teeth. 



