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oblong, or obovate, 

 acute, glabrous. 

 Fruit spherical, 

 and, as well as the 

 calyxes, glabrous. 

 Corymbs few-flow- 

 ered, coarctate. 

 Fruit with a villous 

 disk. (Don's Mill.) 

 A bushy shrub. Of 

 garden origin, pro- 

 bably a hybrid be- 

 tween P. arbutifolicc and P. Chama3inespilus. 

 Height 4 ft. to 5 ft. Cultivated in 18 1 0. Flow- 

 ers white ; May and June. Fruit dark purple ; 

 ripe Sept. Decaying leaves purple and yellow. 



It bears a profusion of flowers, and dark purple fruit; and, on that account, 

 and also on account of the purple tinge of its leaves, it is highly ornamental. 

 Dr. Lindley considers it as the most valuable species of this division of Pjrus 

 that has hitherto been described. 



80-4 . P. (a ) grandifolia. 



P. (a.) grandif61i 



viii. Chamtfmespilus Dec. 



Sect. Char. Petals upright, conniving, concave. Styles 2. Pome ovate. 

 Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. (Dec. Prod.) 



3fc 42. P. CHAMMEME'SPILUS Lindl. The dwarf 

 Medlar. 



Identification. Lindl. in I .in. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 98. ; Dec. 



Prod., 2. p. 637. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 649. 

 Synonymes. Cratae'gus Chamaem^spilus Jacq. Austr. t. 231. ; 



Mespilus Chamtein^spilus Lin. Sp. 685. ; S6rbus Chama?- 



m<?spilus Crantz Austr. 83. t. 1. f. 3. ; the bastard Quince ; 



niedriger Mispelbainn, Ger. ; Camenespolo, Ital. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 231. ; Crantz Austr., 83. 1. 1. f. 



3. ; and our fig. 806. 



Spec. Char. y fyc. Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- 

 brous ; except bearing on the under surface, 



when young, down, which is deciduous. (Dec. 



Prod.) A stiff-branched shrub. Europe, in 



rough mountainous places. Height 5ft. to 



6 ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white, 



tinted with rose ; May and June. Fruit round, 



orange-coloured, or red ; ripe in September. 



This species forms a compact bush, and flow- 

 ers and fruits in the greatest abundance, and 

 hence it merits to be much more extensively 

 introduced into collections than it appears to 

 have hitherto been. -It grafts beautifully on 

 the common hawthorn ; and, indeed, whoever 

 has a quickset hedge may have a collection of 

 all the species of this genus. 



Other Species ofPyrus. P. almfdtia Lindl. in Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 98. Leaves 

 glabrous, roundish, feather-nerved, and rather glaucous beneath. Fruit black 

 and sugary. North America, at Fort Mandon. P. tomentosa Dec. Prod. ii. 

 p. 637. ; ATalus tomentosa Dum. Cours. ed. 2. v. p. 438. Allied to P. bac- 

 cata ; but the flowers, as well as fruit, are unknown. Siberia. P. rubicunda 

 Hoffmans. (Ferz., 1824, p. 192.; Dec. Prod.,ii. p. 637.) Leaves oval-acu- 

 minate. Fruit partly red and partly yellow. Native country unknown. 



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P. Chamaemespilus. 



