Pyrus.] LI. EOSACEa. (J. D. Hooker.) 375 



PnNJA3 in ■vroods by mountain torrents, Jacquemont. 



I know tliis only by the above ojiaraeters given by its author, who Bays that it 

 much resembles P. PasAia, but is easUy recognised by its smooth young fruit; he 

 however does not speak positively of its being a distinct species. The form of the . 

 «aIyx-lobes is not stated. 



Sect. III. Aria. Leaves simple, entire or margin lobulate. Calyx-Mes 

 persistent. Ovary 2-5-ceUed, styles 2-6.. Fruit pynform or globose crowned 

 with the calyx-lohes, flesh granular, endocarp menibranoiis. 



8. P. lanata, Dan, Frodr. 237; leaves broadly oblong margins lobulate 

 lobules serrulate woolly beneath, corymbs densely wooUy, petals glabrous 

 within, styles 2-3 wooUy aU over. P. kumaonensis. Wall. Cat. 678. P. 

 Aria, Serb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. ^ Thorns. ; Brandts For. Fl. 206 (excl. syn. P. 

 vestita), P. Aria var. kumaonensis, Maxim. Diagn. Dec. xv. 173. Sorbus 

 lanata, Wemdg in lAnrusa, 1874, 61. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya; from Kashmie to Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 



A middle sized tree, with the young parts densely woolly; bark of branches 

 smooth, dark brown, shining. Leaves S-8 by 2-4 in., acute, glabrous above when 

 old, eycept often the midrib ; lobules of leaf with many serratures ; base acute or 

 rounded; nerves 8-12, nearly straight; petiole J-| in. Corymhs short, 2-5 in. broad, 

 terminal and subterminal, much branched. Flowers shortly pedioelled, \ in. diam., 

 white. Calyx turbinate ; lobes short, ovate, acute. Petals narrowly obo^ate, nar- 

 rowed into naked claw. Stamens 20. Styles 2^3, densely woolly. Fruit very few 

 in a corymb, or solitary, ^-1^ in. diam., globose and 2-3-s6eded, or smaller pyriform 

 and 1-2-seeded. — This differs from P. Aria in the lobulate leaves (like those of P. 

 latifolia, Poir.) with regularly serrulate lobes, much larger flowers and fewer very 

 large fruits, the latter of which are very variable in size and shape according to 

 the number of seeds ripened. I have not cited Aria kumaonensis. Dene., or A. lanata. 

 Dene. (Mem. Fam. Pom. 162, 163) under this or the following, the species being so 

 much confounded ; one of them is the Sorbus nepalensis Of gardens and Crattegvs {Aria") 

 cuspidata, Spach. {Suite Buff. ii. 106). 



9. P. vestlta, Wall. Cat. 679 ; leaves elliptic acute not or obscurely lo- 

 bulate serrulate very shortly petioled most densely woolly beneath and on both 

 surfaces when young, corymbs densely woolly, petals woolly within, styles 3-5 

 woolly at the base only. P. crenata^ lAndl. in Bot. JReg. t. 1655, not of Don ; 

 Wenzig in IAnn<ea, 1874, 60. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from G-aewhal to Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft. 



A tree very closely allied to P. lanata, but distinguished by the more elliptic and 

 more woolly leaves with rarely marginal lobules, and more numerous nerves. The 

 shorter broader petals wooUy within and the styles glabrous except at the very base, 

 are excellent characters. The figure in the ' Botanical Register ' if intended for this, is 

 a very bad one in respect of its representing slender petioles and a want of woolly 

 clothing. I do not understand why Lindley identifies it with Don's P. crenata, the 

 leaves being serrate and not crenate, and the corymbs compound. Very old leaves 

 have the tomentum on the leaves beneath appressed, polished and silvery. 



Var. khasiana ; leaves smaller, narrower, very membranous. P. Aria, L. ? Hook, 

 f. # T. Herb. Ind. Or.— Khasia, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Seci. rV. Sorbus. Leaves piimate. Calyx-lobes persistent. Ovary 2-4- 

 celled. iStyles 2-5, free. Fruit globose crowned with the persistent calyx ; 

 endocarp membranous or coriaceous. 



10. P. Aucuparia, Gtertn. ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. ii. 100; glabrous or with 

 white woolly down, leaflets 7-12 pair linear-oblong obtuse and apiculate or 



