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PIRUS, L. 
Calyx-tube urceolate or rarely turbinate, adnate to the carpels 
and produced beyond them, the lobes reflexed, persistent or decidu- 
ous. Petals 5, pa: clawed. Stamens numerous, the filaments 
free or united at the base. Ovary inferior, 2-5-celled, with 2 or 
rarely more Dye ovules in each cell, the styles distinct or 
united at the base. Fruit fleshy, ¢ crowned with the persistent 
calyx or the scar of the fallen limb, 2-5-celled, the cells usually 
distinct, with 1 or 2 or rarely more erect seeds in each, the endo- 
carp cartilaginous or rarely crustaceous or bony and firmly adhering 
to the sarcocarp.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate, simple, or pinnate 
eos leaves. Stipules deciduous. Flowers usually in terminal 
cymes or Fie ore: rarely solitary or clustered. Bracts subulate, 
deciduou 
x Gril more than 2 in _— cell ; = solitary or by 
. P. Indica, 
vules each cell. Flowers in corymbs or cymes, 
sb am pacriete on slender 1-2 in. long pedicels . P, Pashia, 
ea and) fruits on very short thick peduncles ° . BP. granulosa. 
aS Indica, Coleb.—A small loatohieddine: tree, the young 
— white-woolly ; leaves from oblong-lanceolate to oval-oblong 
ae elliptical, on a slender $-3 in. long petiole, mavegs normale 
letely and minutely crenate-toothed, 13-24 in. long, co 
——e while young white-woolly beneath, more or tose : 
flowers white, middling-sized, on 2-4 lin. long white-woolly pedi-. 
cels, usually by 2-3 or ‘solitary in the axils of the young leaves; 
calyx densely white-woolly, the tube about 3 lin. long, the lobes 
somewhat longer, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; 
about 4.in. long; apples more or less ovoid or rarely somewhat 
pear-shaped or globose, yellow, smooth, 13-2 in. long, crowned by 
the persistent calyx-limb. 
ae Kakhyen hills, east of Bhamo.—Fl. March-April; Fr. Sept.- 
2. P. Pashia, Don. (P. wegen Wall.; Brand. For. Fi. 
204) —A tree about 25 ft. high, shedding leaves in C.S., the young 
shoots covered with a loose fupaosoni white-woolly tomentum ; leaves 
oval-oblong and ovate, on a long slender petiole, acute, erenate- 
membranous, thin chartaceous, 2-3 (sometimes 4-5) in. long, 
selabeons; turning black in drying; flowers white, on 1-14 in 
straight, slender, whitish woolly, glabrescent pedicels, forming a 
short peduncled or almost sessile corymb in the axils of the young 
leaves ; apples as large as a bullet, pte yellow, sprinkled with 
whitish les, on a 14-2 in. long straight peduncle, very acerb, 
when over-ripe turning sweet and ae 
