PHOTINIA NOTONIANA. (Nat. order Rosacea.) 



PHOTINIA . LindUy.— GEN. [ CHAE. Calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate, adhering to the ovary, the limb short persistent 5-toothed, petals 

 5 spreading, stamens about 20 inserted into the jaws of the calyx, filaments subulate, ovary inferior or the apex free, 2-5 (rarely 1) celled with 2 erect 

 ovules in each cell, styles 2-5 (rarely 1) free or more or less connate at the base their apices dilated truncate and stigmatic, fruit succulent crowned with 

 the remains of the calyx teeth, endocarps thin usually 1 celled with 2 rather small oblong seeds, seeds erect, testa membranaceous or coriaceous, cotyledons 

 plano-convex. Trees or shrubs unarmed glabrous or pubescent, leaves simple coriaceous evergreen, serrated or entire, stipules sometimes subfoliaceous 

 flowers small white or terminal corymbs or panicles, fruit sometimes edible.— Eriobotrya, Lindl. 



PHOTINIA NOTONIANA. (Wall.) A large tree, leaves glabrous from cuneate-lanceolate to oblong acute, quite entire or 

 with a few scattered inconspicuous teeth, 4-6 inches long by 2-2f broad, petioles about \\ inches long, panicles corymbose large very 

 compound, puberulous, pedicels shorter than the calyx, cells of the ovary spuriously semi-bilocular, fruit glabrous 2 seeded. WA. 

 Prod. p. 302 ;— Wight Icones tab. 991 -—Wight III. tab. 85. 



A very handsome tree, very common at the higher elevations on the NUgiris, Anamallays, Puhiies and on the Ceylon mountains, it 

 flowers in March and April and its fruit ripens in June and July, the latter in taste and flavor resembles that of the mountain ash. The tree 

 is called Kaddi bihhi by the Burghers on the NUgiris, the timber is adapted for cabinet purposes, it is closely allied to, if distinct from, P. intt- 

 grifolia, Lindley. 



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