446 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Photinia. 



of Malabar and Travancore above 4,000 ft., in evergreen 



forests. 



A good-sized tree with reddish-brown scaly bark and light 



red close-grained wood. 



9. Cotoneaster, Kupp. 



Small trees or shrubs, erect or decumbent. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, usually downy beneath ; stipules subulate, deciduous. 

 Flowers small, solitary or in axillary or terminal cymes, white 

 or pink ; bracts and bracteoles small. Calyx-tube turbinate or 

 campanulate; lobes 5, short, persistent. Pttals 5, imbricate in 

 bud. Stamens indefinite, usually 20, inserted at the mouth of 

 the calyx. Carpels 2-5, adnate to the calyx-tube ; styles free ; 

 stigma truncate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit an ovoid 

 globose or turbinate drupe with 2-5 1 -seeded bony pyrenes. 

 Seeds compressed, cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle inferior. 

 COTONEASTER BUXIFOLIA, Wall.; F. B. I. ii. 387; W. & A. 

 302; Wt. Ic.t. 992. 



W. Ghats, Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, above 5,000 ft. 

 A rigid, intricately branched shrub with elliptic-ovate 

 acuminate apiculate small leaves, tomentose beneath, white 

 flowers and scarlet fruit. Beddome says the hard, tough 

 wood is used by the Todas to make clubs for killing 

 buffaloes. 



Prunus Persica, Benth. and Hook, f., the Peach; Prunus 

 Avium, Linn., the Cherry ; Pyrus Mains, Linn., the Apple ; 

 Pyrus communis, Linn., the Pear, are cultivated in hill stations 

 for their fruit. 



Prinsepia utilis, Royle, a thorny shrub, introduced from the 

 Himalaya, is now found run wild in the Nilgiri Hills. 



Eriobotrya japonica, LindL, the Loquat, is occasionally 

 cultivated in the Nilgiri Hills for its fruit. 



Family LYII. SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate with stipules adnate 

 to the petiole or 0, or opposite exstipulate. Flowers usually 

 hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx usually 5-merous, more or less 



