370 LI. EOSAOEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriolotrya. 



19. ERIOBOTRVA, Zindl. 



Small or large trees. Leaves simple, entire or serrate, very coriaceous; 

 stipules lanceolate or broad. Flowers in thyrsoid panicles, white. Calyx- 

 tvhe turbinate obconic or clavate ; lobes small, erect or spreading, persistent. 

 Petals 5, contorted or imbricate in bud, obovate or orbicular, usually ob- 

 lique and notched, margins sinuate, claw glabrous or woolly. Ovary 2-6-celled ; 

 styles 5, connate and woolly below ; ovules 2 in each cell, basal, ascending, plar 

 centa sometimes cupuliform. Fruit a succulent or dry rarely 1-2-ceIled berry ; 

 endocarp membranous, 1- rarely 2-3-seeded. Seeds large, ovoid and cyUndric or 

 flattened on one side, testa hard coriaceous and mucilaginous ; cotyledons very 

 thick. — DisiKiB. Himalaya, Malay Peninsula, China, Japan. 



I cannot distinguish Eriohotrya from Fhotinia, except by the inflorescence ; all the 

 other characters given by Decaisne break down amongst the species enumerated 

 under it ; thus the petals are contorted in all but ellipiiea and japonica, and their 

 claws are glabrous in several ; the styles are only two in aU but the above, and one 

 other, which has 3 styles ; the crown of the ovary is glabrous in E. duWa, and I do 

 not find the calyptriform process of the placenta in any hut japonica; hut I have not 

 examined all for this character, and it is one difficult to detect in dry specimens. 



• Petals contorted in bud. Styles 2 or S. 



1. E. petiolata, Sook.f.; robust, leaves 6-9 in. long-petioled elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate thickly coriaceotis entire or obtusely serrate glabrous be- 

 neath, nerves 12-14 pair, inflorescence clothed with appressed tomentum, 

 flowers pediceUed, calyx-lobes rounded, styles 2. E. elliptica, Herb. Ind. Or. H. 

 f. ^ T. ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 146 in part. 



Eastern Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 5-9000 ft. Bhotan at Tongsa, Griffith. 



A tree ; hranchlets glabrous. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 6-9 by 3-3^ in. ; base 

 acute; petiole 1^2 in. Panicles 3-6 in. long and broad, branched from the base, very 

 spreading, dothed with rusty tomentum as are the very young leaves on both sur- . 

 faces. Flowers ^ in. diam., not crowded, shortly pediceUed. Calyx-tube short, ob- 

 conic; lobes also short, semicircular. Petals contorted, orbicular, concave, claw 

 glabrous. — Misled by the provisional naming of the Indian collections distri- 

 buted by Dr. Thomson and myself, Decaisne has included this under E. elliptica, 

 from which it differs entirely in the longer petioles, appressed almost scuriy tomen- 

 tum of the panicle and form of calyx. 



2. E. latlfolia, SboJc. f. ; stout, leaves 6-8 in. long-petioled broadly 

 elliptic acute at both eiids quite entire glabrous above beneath with deciduous 

 tomentum, nerves 10-12 pair, panicle softly tomentose. 



MoiiMAYNE ; on Thoung Gryne, alt. 5000 ft., Tkos. Lobh. 



A shrub, 12 ft. Leaves firmly coriaceous, 3-4 in. broad, opaque above, quite 

 glabrous beneath when old, without a trace of serratures, narrowed into the stout 

 petiole which is 1^-2 in. long, and glabrous except the young leaves which are 

 softly woolly. Panicle 6 in. long and as broad, much branched, clothed with rusty 

 pubescence. Flowers ^ in. diam., crowded. Calyx-tube broadly obconic; lobes 

 rounded. Petals contorted, broadly obovate or orbicular, claw glabrous. Styles 2. 



3. E. longifolla, Hook.f. ; robust, leaves 7-10 in. shortly petioled nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate acuminate quite entire narrowed into the petiole, nerves 25-30 

 pair almost horizontal, panicle glabrate. Photinia longifolia, Dene. Mem. Fam. 

 Pom. 142. 



