Cydonia.] li. eosace^!. (J. D. Hooker.) 369 



woolly below the middle ; ovules many in each cell, 2-s6riate, ascending or 

 horizontal. Fruit subglohose, intruded at the base and apex, firm and fleshy, 

 fragrant, 5-celled, cells many-seeded. Seeds small, plano-convei, testa mucila- 

 ginous. — ^DisTRiB. S. of Europe and the East, China. 



1. C. vulgrarls, Pers.; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 656; Bene. Mem.'Fam. 

 Pom. 128 ; Wall. Cat. 666. 0. Sumboshia, Sam. in Bon Prodr. 237. Pyrus 

 Cydonia, lAnn. ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 511 ; Brand. For. Fl. 205. — The Quince. 



CultiTated in N. W. India, and up to 5500 ft. in the Himalaya.— Distbib. Na- 

 tiye country unkno-wn ; is self-sown in the East and in South Europe, &o. — Decaisue 

 refers the Quince of N. W. India to C. lusitanica, Mill, but it certainly in no way 

 differs from the common fruit of Europe. 



18. DOCYNXA, Bene. 



Small trees. Leaves deciduous, simple, lobed in young plants ; stipules small, 

 subulate. Flowers white, solitary or fascicled. Calyx'-tvlie clavate ; limb shortly 

 tubular, 5-partite ; lobes reflexed, toothed. Petals 5, with long woolly claws, 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens 30-50. Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5-celled, connate 

 and woolly below the middle ; ovules 3, subbasilar in each cell. Fruit rounded 

 ovoid or pyriform, ilesh hard ; cells 1-3-seeded ; endocarp like parchment. Seeds 

 plano-convex, testa coriaceous; cotyledons amygdaloid. — Disibib. Himalaya 

 and the Eliasia Mts. 



1. D. indica, Bene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 131, t. 14 ; leaves ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate long-acuminate entire or serrulate glabrous above beneath densely 

 woolly at length glabrate, fruit almost globose. D. Griffithiana, Bene. I. c. 

 Pyrus indica. Wall. PI. As. Par. ii. 56, t. 173 ; Roxh. Cat. Hort. Beng. 38 ; 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 511 ; Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 441. Cydonia indica, Spach, 

 Suite Buff. ii. 158 ; Wenzig in Linmsa, 1874, 12. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 4-6000 ft. J. D. S. Bhotan, alt. 

 7500 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 6000 ft. Biema, Kwrz. — Distrib. Poneshee (Yunan). 



A small tree, 12-15 ft., in a young state like a CraLagus, having 3-lobate lobulate 

 and sharply toothed leaves and often spinescent branches ; young parts of old plants 

 densely clothed with white woolly tomeutum. Leaves 3-4 in., coriaceous, at length 

 quite glabrous, with prominent arched nerves beneath, serratures chiefly beyond the 

 middle ; petiole slender, J-l in. Flowers 1-1|^ in. diam., shortly pedicelled, densely 

 woolly. Cah/x-tube pyriform ; lobes narrowly lanceolate. Petals spreading. FUa- 

 Tnmts long, slender. Styles slender, united at the base into a woolly cone. Fruit a 

 nearly spherical yeUow green apple, with orange spots, 1-1 J in. diam., and rather 

 longer, rounded at the base and crowned with the broken sepals, usually 5-celled ; 

 cells 3-seeded ; seeds quite like those of apple — it is rather austere with a slight 

 quince flavour and forms a good stew. — L. Griffithiana iiom Bhotan is only /?. indica. 



2. D. Kookeriana, Bane. Mem. Fam. Pom. 131, t. 15 ; leaves oblong 

 or linear-lanceolate long-acuminate serrate, fruit between fusiform and ellipsoid 

 contracted below the sepals. * 



Khasia Mts., alt. 5000 ft., at Myrong, J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



Very closely allied to D. imdica, but the leaves are larger (4-^5 in.) and narrower 

 in pioportion, and the fruit is of a wholly different shape and not half as long as 

 broad. I have only fruiting specimens ; these show no trace of wooUiness, but no 

 doubt in a younger state the branches and leaves are as woolly as those of D. 

 indica. , 



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