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ROSACEAE. 



Eriobotrya. Loquat. 

 (Family Rosaceae). 



Small tender trees: evergreen. 

 Twigs stout, fluted: pith large, 

 angular, continuous. Buds soli- 

 tary, sessile, indistinguishable in 

 the pubescence, the terminal ovoid 

 with many paired acute very hairy 

 stipular scales. Leaf-scars alter- 

 nate, crowded toward the tip, 

 narrowly crescent-shaped or 

 triangular, low: bundle-traces 3: 

 stipule-scars forming linear pro- 

 longations of the leaf-scar. Leaves 

 large, oblanceolate, serrate. 



Though grown under glass only, 

 in the North, the loquat or nes- 

 pera is one of the frequent fruit 

 trees in some of the warmer parts 

 of the world and its acid fruits 

 are much liked by those who 

 have come to know them. As a 

 decorative plant, it has nothing to 



commend it. 



Very rusty-hairy, the leaves glabrous above. 



E. japonica. 



