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XLVIII. ROSACEA. 
[. Parinariutn . 
Stamens 2; drupe small, coriaceous; calyx-tube 
short. . . -3- Parastemon 
Style terminal; trees or shrubs; leaves simple. 
Petals large; calyx 5 -toothed; drupe pulpy . - 4 - Prunus 
Petals minute or o; calyx 5- to xo-toothed; drupe 
fleshy . . . . . . .5. Pygeum 
C.arpels many, fleshy or pulpy, not included in calyx-tube. 
’ Climbing thorny shrubs ; leaves lobed serrate . . 6. Rubus 
Calyx-tube becoming fleshy and enclosing the carpels; 
fruit a pome, with 3 to 5 bony or coriaceous 
stones. 
Flowers corymbose or fascicled . . . • 7- Pyrus 
Flowers panicled ...... 8. Eriobotrya 
1. PARINARIUM, Juss. 
Trees. Leaves entire, alternate. Flowers bisexual in panicled 
corymbose racemes, bibracteolate, usually white. Calyx-tube 
funnel-shaped or campanulate, lobes 5. Petals 5, sometimes 
clawed. Stamens 6 to 30; filaments united in an incomplete ring 
or in an unilateral bundle, all perfect or some anantherous. Carpel 
1, adnate to one side of the calyx-tube, 2-celled; ovules 2 or 1. 
Drupe round, globose or ovoid, woody, 2-celled not pulpy. Species 
about 50, tropics of both worlds. 
Leaves whitish beneath, woolly pubescent. 
Leaves thin, 1-5 to 3 in. long, thinly whitish, 
pubescent; panicles lax 
Leaves stiffly coriaceous, 3 to 4 in. long, thick, 
yellow woolly; panicles very short 
Leaves 5 in. long, elliptic, wide 
Leaves oblong 8 in. long; panicle large many- 
nerved ...... 
Leaves glabrous. 
Flowers in sessile, solitary spikes. 
Stamens 10; fruit 1 in. through; flowers 
small ....... 
Stamens 12 to 16; fruit much thicker; 
flowers large ..... 
Flowers racemed or panicled; fruit woody; 
flowers straight. 
Leaves large, sub-sessile, base broad, 3 in. 
wide . . . . . . . 
Leaves smaller, base narrowed; petioles -2 in. 
long; stamens 12 to 16 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, stiff; stamens 10 . 
Leaves broad, lanceolate; stamens 20 to 30 . 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate. 
Panicles short; flowers curved; petals 
unequal ...... 
Panicle corymboid; petals equal 
( 1 ) P. costatum 
{2) P. rubiginosum 
(3) P. polyneurum 
(4) P. oblongilolium 
(5) P. spicatum 
(6) P. Maingayi 
(7) P. elatum 
(8) P. scabrum 
(9) P. asperulum 
(10) P. Kunstleri 
(n) P. heteropetalum 
(12) P. Griffithianum 
( 1 ) P. costatum Bl. Mel. Bot. i. Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 311; 
King, l.c. 277. 
Tree 60 ft. tall or more, 2‘5 to 3 ft. through. Branchlets 
puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or ovate- 
