Uriohotnja.] li. eosacej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 371; 



MiSHMi Hills, Griffith, 



A shrub, branohlets as thiok as a swan's quill. Leaves firmly coriaceous, IJ-lf in^ 

 diam. ; margins revolute (in drying ?), perfectly glabrous, hardly shining above ; pe^ 

 tiole I in. Panioks 4-5 in. long, glabrate ; branches, rather slender. Flowers slirtly 

 pedicelled, white. Ca^x appressed-pubescent, tube obconic; limb J in. diam. ; lobes 

 triangular, obtuse, glabrous within. Petals coohleate, claw glabrous. Styles 2, the 

 united part pubescent. — I have not seen the petals, which Deeajsne describes ; he 

 refers it to Photinia, but the habit foliage and inflorescence are altogether those of 

 Eriobotrya. 



4. E. Bookeriana, Dene. Mem. Fain. Pom. 146 ; robust, leaves 8-12 in. 

 very shorily and stoutly petioled elliptic- or oblong-laneeolate acuminate sharply 

 coarsely serrate, more or less pubescent beneath, nerves 20-30 pair, panicle tomen- 

 tose, branches spreading. Photinia subsessilia, Kinff in Serb. Calo. 



Eastern Himalaya ; Siilkim, alt. 6500-8000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan. alt. 4-6500 ft. 

 Gnffitk. 



A small tree, with very stout branches. Leaves 8-12 by 2-4^ in., when young 

 thickly covered with rusty tomentose, old glabrate or glabrous, very thickly coria- 

 ceous, opaque above with impressed'close-set nerves, serrated nearly to the truncate 

 rounded or subacute base ; petiole |-J in., very thick ; stipules semi-lunate, very co- 

 riaceous. Panicle 4-6 in. and as broad, finely softly tomentose, almost woolly. 

 Flowers i in. diam., white; bracts small, ovate; pedicels short, stout. C(dyx-tnbe 

 shortly obconic ; lobes rounded, obtuse. Petals contorted, orbicular, claw wooUy. 

 Styles 2, base woolly. Fruit | in. long, ellipsoid, yellow. 



5. E. dubia, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 145, exol. some syn. ; rather slender, 

 leaves 3-5 in. shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acraninate 

 qidte glabrous shining above coarsely sharply serrate, nerves 10-12 pair, panicle 

 softly tomentose or only puberulous, crovtTi of ovary glabrous. Photinia F dubia, 

 Limdl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ■sxa. 104,t. lOj Wall. Cat. 668, 1. P. dubia, Werif- 

 iig in lAnneea, 1874, 94, excl. synonym. Crataegus ? Shicola, Ham, in Don 

 Prodr. 238. Mespilus tinetoria, Don Prodr. 238. 



Central and Eastern Himalaya ; Hbpal, Wallick ; Sikkim, alt. 5-6000 ft., J, V. H^ 

 Bhotah alt. 4000 ft., Gnffiih. 



A small tree, 20-40 ft. Leaves thinly coriaceous, not exceeilng 1^ in, broad, 

 gradually narrowed at the base into the petiole, which is slender and j^Jin. Panicles 

 2-4 in. long and broad ; branches rather slender. Flowers not crowded, ^ in. diam., 

 white, shortly pedicelled ; bracts short, subulate. Calyx-tube short, obconic ; lobes^ 

 rather variable, short, acute or obtuse. Petals orbicular, claw slightly woolly. Sti/les- 

 2, glabrous, on the short hemispheric glabrous top of the ovary. Frmt | in long, 

 shortly ellipsoid, 1-seeded, eatable. 



6. E. ben^alensis, Hooh.f.; rather stout, leaves 4-8 in. long^petioled. 

 elliptic or elliptic oblong or lanceolate acraninate coarsely obtusely serrate or lobii- 

 late quite glabrous shining above, nerves 8-12 pair, panicle softly tomentose, crown 

 of ovary wooUy. E. dubia,. Bcne^ Mem. Pom. 145, in part ; Kwz, For. FL 

 Brit. Burm. 443. ' Mespilus bengalensis, Hoxb. Cat. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii.- 

 510. Photinia dubia, Wall. Cat. 668, 2, 3, 4, and E. 



Eastern Himalaya ; Sikeim, alt. 4000 ft., C. B. Clarke. EiM.SLi Musi and Mufca 

 hills, alt. 3-4000 ft. Chittasong, Ava. Wallich ; Tenassbbim, Heifer ; Malacca, 

 Griffith, Makigay. — Distbib. Bhamo. 



A large robust tree. Leaves often 2^ and sometimes Z\ in. broad, sometimes acute, 

 obtuse or rounded with coarse lobules or crenatures ; petiole stout or slender, f-l| in., 

 glabrous. Panicles 3-5 in. long and broad, branched from th? base, branches rather 

 stout. Flowers \ in. Aia.ia.., wMte, smelling of hawthorn. (7a^x-<MJe obconic ; lobes: 

 acute or obtuse. Petals orbicular, claw slightly woolly. Btyles 2, base very woolly.. 

 Fruit f in. long, dlipsoid, 1-2-seeded, uneatable. — Confounded by "Wallich, myaeH'^ 



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