28. POMACEiE. 
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Order XXYIII. POMACEIE. 
The Pear and Apple Family. 
FI. perfect regular. Cal. persistent, sep. 5 imbricate in bud, 
tube adhering to the ovary. Pet. 5 (rarety 0) imbricate in bud. 
Stam. 15-30 inserted with pet. in the throat of cal. Ovary of 
5-1- mostly 2-ovulate cells or carpels coherent with each other 
and with the cal. -tube. Styles as many as carpels, stigma 
simple. Fr. a 5- or 1-4-celled pome or apple, fleshy or succu- 
lent, crowned with the persistent sep. Seeds 1-2 (rarely more) 
in each cell with a cartilaginous or bony endocarp , ascending ; 
cot. mostly flat simple ; albumen 0. — Tr. or shr. with scaly buds. 
L. mostly simple sometimes pinnate. Stip. free mostly deciduous. 
FI. w., blush, or pink, mostly earlier than the 1. Fr. edible. 
1. Ciiam-ZEMeles. Cal. truncate minutely 5-toothed , tube 
urceolate. Pet. 5 erect crumpled and erose. Style 1. Ov. 
1-celled, each cell containing 2 erect ovules. Fr. (a Haw) 
obovate or oval, crowned by the withered sep., umbilicate 
but closed at top and concealing the upper end of the 
single bony \-seeded nut or carpel. Cot. leafy convolute . — 
L. simple coriaceous evergreen. 
2. Pyrus. Cal. 5-fid or 5-toothed, tube urceolate. Pet. 5 
suborbicular. Styles 5-2. Ov. 5-2-celled, each cell 2-om- 
late. Fr. fleshy umbilicate at top but closed and crowned 
with the dry persistent sep. ; cells 5, each \-2- seeded formed 
of the cartilaginous or coriaceo-membranous endocarp. Coat of 
seeds (testa) cartilaginous ; cot. fleshy plain simple. — Small tr. 
L. simple or pinnate deciduous. FI. in umbellate bunches 
w. or rose, often fragrant. Fr. mostly edible. 
ff3. Cydonia. Cal. 5-cleft, the segments almost leafy, tube 
campanulate. Pet. 5 suborbicular. Styles 5. Ov. 5-celled, 
each cell many-ovulate. Fr. fleshy closed umbilicate, 
crowned by the enlarged persistent sep. ; cells 5 cartila- 
ginous, each many-seeded ; seeds mucilaginous subhori- 
zontal ; testa cartilaginous ; cot. simple. — Shr. with simple 
1. and subsolitary fi. Fr. mostly pear-shaped cottony. 
1. ClIAMiEMELES Lindl. 
1. C. coriacea Lindl. JBuxo da Rocha. 
The only sp. of its genus. — Lindl. in Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. 104, 
t. 11; Lowe ibid. xvi. pp. 393-39G; DC. ii. 631; Spr. Syst. 
ii. 460. Crataegus coriacea Sol. MSS. in BII. ; Buck 197. 
no. 382. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, rr. Sea-cliffs and perpendicular 
sides of ravines on the S. coast, almost exclusively in the 
neighbourhood of Funchal, and never above a mile or two from 
the sea. Edge of the cliffs along the Can^o road to the E. 
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