XLVIII. R0SACEA2. 
68 i 
Eriobotrya.] 
less connate at base, apices dilate. Drupe or berry ovoid, i- to 
5-locular, cells i- to 2-seeded. 
(i) E. bengalensis Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii.' 371. Photinia dubia, 
Wall. Cat. 
A shrub or tree. Leaves elliptic or oblong acuminate, narrowed 
to base, crenate, glabrous; nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 4 to 5 in. long, 
175 in. wide; petioles 75 to 1 in. long. Panicles 2 to 3 in. long, 
usually dense woolly, rather stout. Flowers *3 in. across, white, 
fragrant. Calyx-tube obconic. Petals orbicular, claw woolly. 
Styles 2, base woolly. Fruit 75 in. long, ellipsoid-ovoid, crowned 
with the sepals, 1- to 2-seeded, green. Hab. Rocky spots. Pahang, 
Gunong Tahan (Robinson). Malacca at Bukit China (Griffith). 
Dindings at Segari (Ridley). Dislrib. Himalayas, Burma. 
Order XLIX. SAXIFRAGACE^E. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite; stipulate 
or not. Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx more or less adnate to 
ovary, sometimes free, sometimes inferior. Petals 5 or 4, peri- 
gynous or epigynous. Stamens as many or double, rarely numerous. 
Ovary of 2 to 3 or 5 united carpels, 2- to 3- or 5-celled with axile 
placentas or i-celled with parietal placentas. Styles as many as 
carpels, free or combined nearly to top. Ovules numerous. Fruit 
capsular or berried. Seeds numerous (one in Polyosma). Species 
600 in cold or temperate regions and mountains of tropics, with 
a few tropical trees or shrubs. 
Sub-herbaceous shrub; leaves simple; flowers blue; 
fruit succulent . . . . . . .1. Dichroa 
Shrubs or trees; leaves pinnate, stipulate; fruit capsular, 
2-celled ; seeds few ... ... 2. Weinmannia 
Shrubs or small trees; leaves simple. 
Flowers 4-merous; fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded, 
inferior . . . . . . . -3- Polyosma 
Flowers 5-merous; fruit capsular, conic . . . 4. Itea 
1 . DICHROA, Lour. 
A sub-herbaceous shrub. Leaves opposite, lanceolate serrate, 
membranous. Panicle terminal, many-flowered. Flowers and 
fruits dark blue. Calyx-tube adnate to ovary, 5- to 6-toothed, 
Petals 5 to 6 valvate. Stamens 10 to 12 epigynous. Ovary three- 
quarters inferior, i-celled; styles 3 to 5; ovules numerous on 
3 to 5 parietal placentas. Berry blue. One species. 
(1) D. febrifuga Lour. FI. Cochinchitte, 301 ; Wall. PI. As. 
Rar. 1. 213; Bot. Mag. t. 3046 ; King , l.c. 298. 
Shrubby at base, 3 to 6 ft. tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves caudate- 
acuminate, 4 to 5 in. long, 1*4 to i’8 in. wide; petioles '6 to 175 in. 
long. Panicles large, lax, about 6 in. or more long and wide. 
