XXVI. ROSA‘CEE: PY‘RUS 449 
oblong, or obovate, 
acute, glabrous. 
Fruit spherical, 
and, as well as the 
calyxes, glabrous. 
Corymbs few-flow- 
ered, coarctate. 
Fruit with a villous 
disk. (Don’s ill.) 
A bushy shrub. Of 
‘ arden origin, pro- 
Re aa bbls a hyena bes 
tween P. arbutifdlia and P. Chameméspilus. 
Height 4 ft. to 5 ft. Cultivated in 1810. Flow- 
ers white; May and June. Fruit dark purple; + GJ 
ripe Sept. Decaying leaves purple and vellow. 805. P. (a.) grandifolia, 
It bears a profusion of flowers, and dark purple fruit ; and, on that account, 
and also on account of the purple tinge of its leaves, it is highly ornamental. 
Dr. Lindley considers it as the most valuable species of this division of Pyrus 
that has hitherto been described. 
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§ viii. Chameméspilus Dec. 
Sect. Char. Petals upright, conniving, concave. Styles 2. Pome ovate. 
Leaves simple, glandless. Flowers in a capitate corymb. (Dec. Prod.) 
2 42. P. Caamame’spitus Lindl. The dwarf 
Medlar. 
Identification. Lindl in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 98.; Dec. 
Prod., 2. p. 637. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 649. : 
Synonymes. Crate‘gus Chameméspilus Jacq. Austr. t. 231. ; 
Méspilus Chameméspilus Lin. Sp. 685.; Sorbus Chama~ 
méspilus Crantz Austr. 83. t.1. f.3.; the bastard Quince; 
niedriger Mispelb: , Ger.; C polo, Ital. 
Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 231.; Crantz Austr., 83. t.1.f. 
3.; and our fig. 806. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, serrated, gla- 
brous; except bearing on the under surface, 
when young, down, which is deciduous. (Dec. 
Prod.) A stiff-branched shrub. Europe, in 
rough mountainous places, Height 5 ft. to 
6 ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowers white, 
tinted with rose; May and June. Fruit round, 
orange-coloured, or red ; ripe in September. 
This species forms a compact bush, and flow- 
ers and fruits in the greatest abundance, and. 4 
hence it merits to be much more extensively # 
introduced into collections than it appears to * 
have hitherto been. It grafts beautifully on 
the common hawthorn; and, indeed, whoever 
has a quickset hedge may have a collection of 
all the species of this genus. 
Other Species of Pijrus.—P. alnifolia Lindl.in Lin. Trans. xiii. p.98. Leaves 
glabrous, roundish, feather-nerved, and rather glaucous beneath. Fruit black 
and sugary. North America, at Fort Mandon. — P. tomentosa Dec. Prod. ii. 
p. 637.; Afalus tomentosa Dum, Cours. ed. 2. v. p. 438. Allied to P. bac- 
cata; but the flowers, as well as fruit, are unknown. Siberia —P, rubicéinda 
Hoffmans. (Verz., 1824, p. 192.; Dec. Prod., ii. p. 637.) Leaves oval-acu- 
minate. Fruit partly red and partly yellow. Native country unknown, 
GG 
806. P. Chamwméspilus. 
