1876.] Knoivl 'edge of the Burmese Flora. 305 



Hab. Rare in the tropical forests on the Kambala toung of the Pegu 

 Yomah, at about 2000 feet elevation. — Fr. March, Apr. 



The fruits look more like apples, but the tree is evergreen. The 

 very same tree occurs also in the outer hills of the Sikkim Himalaya. 



3. E. dubia {Photinia dubia, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 104. 

 t. 10 ; DC. Prod. II. 631 ; Wenzig in Linn. 1874. 94 ; Mespilus Bengalen- 

 sis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 510 ; Photinia Bengalensis, Wall. ap. Voigt Hort. 

 Calc. 198 exel. syn. LdL). 



Hab. Frequent in the damp hill-forests of the Martaban Hills, east 

 of Tounghoo, at 6000 to 7000 feet elevation ; Ava Hills, east of Bhamo 

 (J. Anderson) ; Chittagong (Roxb.). — Fl. March. 



*4. E. Japonica, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 103 ; WA. 

 Prod. I. 302 ; Wight Icon. t. 226 ; Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. I. 182. t. 97 ; 

 Wenzig in Linn. 1874. 97. — (Mespilus Japonica Thbg. Fl. Jap. 205 ; 

 Vent. Jard. Malm. I. t. 19 ; Bot. Reg. t. 365 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 510). 



Hab. The ' loquat' is but rarely cultivated in the larger towns of 

 Pegu, such as Rangoon. 



Rosa, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Sect. 1. Systylce. Styles connate into a column. Flowers in corymbs. 

 Flowers small, pink ; calyx glabrous or pubescent, the lobes short and entire ; leaflets 



small, pubescent beneath ; stipules pinnatifid, R. multiflora. 



Flowers large, white ; calyx glandular-tomentose, one or more of the lobes usually 



lobed ; leaflets glabrous ; stipules entire, R. moschata. 



Sect. 2. Meuterostylce. — Styles all free. 



* Calyx-throat pervious and not closed by the dish. 



Flowers large, usually corymbose ; calyx glabrous or sparingly glandular ; leaflets 



glabrous, glaucous beneath ; carpels about 40 to 50, R. lndica. 



As preceding, but leaves solitary ; carpels about 15, R. damascena. 



Leaflets small ; flowers solitary ; calyx-tube and the globular fruits densely echinate, 



. . R. microphylla. 



* * Calyx-throat completely closed by the disk. 



Calyx, younger branchlets, and the globular fruits densely tomentose ; flowers white, 



. . R. involucrata. 

 Leaflets wrinkled, opaque ; calyx and peduncles hispid, R. rubiginosa. 



1. R. intobtjcbata, Roxb. ap. Lindl. Monogr. Ros. 8 ; Roxb. Fl. ■ 

 Ind. II. 513 ; DC. Prod. II. 602 ; Bot. Reg. t. 739 ; Wight Icon. t. 234. 



Hab. Ava, Irrawaddi plains from Mandalay northwards, in savan- 

 nahs. — Fl. Jan. Febr. 



NB. Several species of roses (especially P. lndica and P. damascena) 

 are found planted, around khyoungs chiefly, in almost every one of the larger 

 villages of Pegu. 



