Rosa.'] XXXII. liOSACEiE. 203 



prickles, the ovary and calyx-segments glabrous, calyx-segments shorter than 

 petals, and a depressed globose fruit. 



5. R. macrophylla, Lindl. Monogr. Eos. t. 6. Syn. R. Hoffmeisteri, 

 Klotsch, Beise des Prinzen Waldemar Bot. t. 7. Vern. Guldb, guldbi, ban- 

 gulab. Local names : Jikjik, Chenab ; Alchidri, Eavi. 



Erect, often unarmed, pubescent, often with glandular hairs; prickles 

 from a conical basis, long, straight, J-J in. long, no bristles. Leaves 2-8 

 in. long ; leaflets 3-5 pair, elliptical, the terminal 1-3 in. long, the others 

 smaller. Petioles tomentose. Flowers red, 1J-2 in. across, solitary or 

 in terminal corymbs. Bracts large, foliaceous. Pedicels 1 in. long, pu- 

 bescent with glandular hairs and bristles. Calyx-lobes hoary or grey- 

 tomentose, very long, longer than petals ; base narrowly triangular, apex 

 dilated, lanceolate, toothed. Styles pilose, exserted, distinct. Fruit large, 

 soft, turbinate, 1 in. long. 



Himalaya from Khagan to Sikkim. In the N.W. Him. between 3500 and 

 10,000 ft. Fl. May, June. Fruit eaten. Hardy in England. 



5. PYRUS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, with deciduous, simple or pinnate leaves. Flowers 

 white or pink, in terminal corymbs. Calyx-tube urceolate, lobes reflexed 

 or deciduous. Stamens many ; filaments sometimes connate at the base. 

 Carpels 2-5, adnate to the calyx-tube ; styles free or connate below ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell (numerous in P. Cydonia). Fruit fleshy, 2-5 -celled, 

 cells with a cartilaginous or bony, often 2-valved endocarp, 1-2-seeded 

 (except in P. Cydonia). 

 Leaves simple, flowers in simple corymbs. 



Fruit pyriform, not umbilicate at the base ; styles free. 



Leaves rounded or ovate, simple ; fruit smooth . . . 1. P. communis. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, often lobed ; fruit rough . . 2. P. variolosa. 

 Fruit umbilicate, globose, depressed ; styles connate. 



Extremities white-tomentose ; peduncle as long as fruit, or 



shorter 3. P. Malus. 



Extremities glabrous ; peduncles 3-4 times longer than fruit 4. P. baccata. 



Leaves simple, entire ; flowers solitary 5. P. Cydonia. 



Leaves simple, lobed, or pinnatifid ; flowers in compound corymbs 6. P. Aria. 

 Leaves pinnate ; flowers in compound corymbs . . . . 7. P. ursina. 



Carl Koch and Decaisne write Pirus, thus restoring the classical spelling of 

 the word, changed for Pyrus in the sixteenth century. I follow Bentham, Bois- 

 sier, and Hooker in retaining the spelling of Linnaeus ; because, if we were to 

 commence altering the customary spelling of botanical names, the changes 

 would be endless and confusion would be unavoidable. 



1. P. communis, Linn. ; Hook. Stud. Fl. 125 ; Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 

 653. The Pear-tree. Vern. Tang, batang, batank, ndk, sunJceint, char- 

 keint, li, Pb. Him. ; Ndshpdti, ndk, Pb. plains. 



A shrub or large tree, entirely glabrous, or extremities, young leaves, 

 and inflorescence more or less pubescent or floccose ; branchlets often 

 spinescent in young trees. Leaves rotundate, ovate, or oblong-ovate, 

 acute or short acuminate, entire or obtusely serrate ; petiole slender, as 



