Photinia.'] LI. ROSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 381 



VAB. ceylanica ; leaves sometimes orbicular, inflorescence quite glabrous. Ceylon, 

 alt. 6-7000 ft. DISTBIB. Java. Javanese specimens have sometimes crenate leaves. 



VAB. eugenifolia ; leaves from narrow lanceolate to broadly oblong, corymbs hoary 

 with white pubescence. P. eugenifolia, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. sub. t. 1956 ; Wall. Cat. 

 670, in part. P. micrantha, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 143. Khasia Mts. 



VAB. macrophylla ; leaves 7-9 in. ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, petiole 

 l-2 in., corymbs quite glabrous. Khasia Mts. 



3. P. integrifolia, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 103 ; quite glabrous, 

 leaves oblanceolate acuminate quite entire narrowed into the short (- in.) 

 petiole, corymbs large spreading, flowers % in. diam., fruit globose. Wall. Cat. 

 669 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under tab. 1956. Pyrus integerrima, Don Prodr. 

 237. 



Central and Eastern Himalaya ; from NEPAL, Wallich, and SIKKIM, alt. 4-7000 ft. 

 to BHOTAN, Griffith. KHASIA MTS. alt. 3-4000 ft. 



I have great difficulty in distinguishing this from P. Notoniana (in the Khasia 

 Mts. especially), its best character is the very short petiole and uniformly oblanceolate 

 smaller leaves 3-5 in. long. In the Himalaya it is very constant in its characters, 

 but in the Khasia Mts. it comes very near small states of Notoniana, var. macrophylla. 

 Hence though no foliage of allied plants can be more unlike in form than the ordinary 

 states of this plant present, I am in doubt as to their specific differences. P. integri- 

 folia, Miquel (Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part i. 387), from Java, appears to be the same plant. 

 The styles are almost invariably two, but three are said to occur. The crown of the 

 ovary is woolly, but of the fruit glabrous. 



4. P. Griffith!!, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 142 ; branchlets midrib be- 

 neath petiole and inflorescence woolly, leaves oblong-lanceolate acuminate ser- 

 rulate near the tip, nerves very slender, petiole 1-2 in., flowers in. diam. 

 Pomarc. Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. iii. t. 573 (bad) ; Posth. Papers, ii. 178, No. 921. 



BHOTAN HIMALAYA, at Trelagong, Griffith. 



A large tree ; branchlets rather slender, woolly, pubescence whitish. Leaves 

 5-7 by 1^-2^ in., much more membranous than in any preceding species, very finely 

 acuminate, serratures minute, rather shining on both surfaces; nerves arched, 25-30 

 pair ; petiole cylindric. Corymbs ample. Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes 

 rounded. Petals obovate ; claw woolly. Styles 2-3, woolly and connate below. Ovary 

 with a densely woolly crown. Griffith describes the calyx-lobes and petals as 5 or 6. 



5. P. mollis, Hook.f. ; branchlets leave/beneath short petiole and inflo- 

 rescence clothed with white wool, leaves very membranous elliptic or lanceolate 

 acuminate serrulate base acute, corymbs rounded many-flowered, flowers in. 

 diam., styles 2-3 glabrous united at the base. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, at a low elevation, J. D. H., Gamble. 



Tree 20-30 ft. Branches slender, glabrous, with red brown bark and small len- 

 ticels ; branchlets and other woolly parts white. Leaves 4-5 in., pale when dry, very 

 membranous, serratures fewer and smaller towards the base, rather suddenly acumi- 

 nate; nerves 6-10 pair, spreading, arched, very slender. Corymbs 2 in. diam., shortly 

 peduncled, branches spreading, rather lax-flowered. Flowers white, pedicelled ; bracts 

 minute, linear, caducous, membranous. Calyx woolly ; tube hemispheric; lobes 

 rounded. Petals orbicular, retuse ; claw very short, glabrous. Stamens not long, 

 slender. Disk not thickened, woolly at the base. Styles slender ; stigma 2-lobed. 

 Fruit | in. long, ovoid, crowned with the persistent calyx ; endocaxp thinly crustace- 

 ous, septum membranous. Seeds nearly as long aa the fruit. 



