Photinia.'] ROSACEAE. 445 



united in a long-exserted column. Bark papery, purplish- 

 red ; wood reddish-brown. 



Roses, of many species and garden varieties, are to be found in 

 cultivation, especially in the Hills. 



8. Photinia, Lindl. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, coriaceous, entire 

 or toothed ; stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers small, white, 

 in corymbose terminal panicles ; bracts deciduous. 0^a?-tube 

 obconic; lobes 5, short, persistent. Petals 5, spreading. Stamens 

 20, inserted on the mouth of the calyx. Ovary half-adhering, 2- 

 rarely more-celled ; styles 2, rarely more, free or connate at the 

 base; stigmas truncate; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, ascending. 

 Fruit a small globose or ovoid drupe with 2 pyrenes each in a 

 crustaceous endocarp, each with 2 seeds. Seeds obovoid, tri- 

 quetrous or compressed ; testa coriaceous ; cotyledons plano- 

 convex ; radicle inferior. 



Leaves elliptic ovate or lanceolate, mucronate at apex, crenulate, 

 3-6 in. long, the nerves prominent beneath; flowers '3 in. broad, the 

 claw of the petals usually villous ; seeds triquetrous ... 1. Lindleyana. 

 Leaves elliptic or obovate, obliquely acuminate at apex, entire, 

 3-6 in. long, 1-2*5 in. broad, nerves not prominent ; flowers '15 in. 

 broad, the claw of the petals usually glabrous ; seeds compressed 



2. Notoniana. 



1. PHOTINIA LINDLEYANA, W. & A. 302; F. B. I. ii. 380; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 228. 



W. Ghats, in Shola Forests of the Nilgiri Hills at about 

 6,000 ft. 



A small tree with dark brown bark and light brown close- 

 grained wood, used only for fuel. 



var. tomentosa, Gamble. Petioles, uiidersurface of young leaves 

 and inflorescence softly tawny-tomentose ; leaves almost 

 entire, serrate towards the apex. 



Nilgiris, chiefly in Sholas towards Sispara at and above 

 7,000 ft. 



2. PHOTINIA NOTONIANA, W. & A. 302; F. B. I. ii. 380; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 991; 111. t. 86; Bedd. Fl. t. 192. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri and Pulney hills and the hills 



