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PYRUS floribunda. 
Many flowered Aronia. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomacesz. Rich. Lindl. 
Tribus VIII. Dec. prodr. 
-PYRUS. Supra, vol. 8. fol. 651. 
Rosacearum, sect. 1. Juss, gen. 
Sect. Anonrta Nob. (Adenorachis Decand. prodr. 2. 637.) 
P. floribunda ; foliis obovato-lanceolatis arguté crenulatis cost& glandulosa : 
subtis ramis pedicellis calycibusque dens® tomentosis, corymbis multi- 
floris, pomis nigris spheericis pedicellisque glabris, ramis reclinatis. 
_ Frutex, ramis adults cinereis, levibus, novellis tomentosis. Folia obovato- 
lanceolata, arguté crenulata, supra glabra, costd glandulosd, junioribus ob- 
tusis subtis dense tomentosis ; adultis subtis undique pubescentibus, acuminatis. 
Ven inconspicue, subequales, primariv patentes, rectiuscule, quandoque 
bifurce, arcuate abruptée inflexe, externee hinc cum primariis continue 
elongate ; venule propricee subparallele, transverse, communes reticulate.” 
Corymbi copiosissimi, multiflori, foliis longiores, pedicellis calycibusque 
undique tomento densissime vestitis. Flores albi; petalis concavis integris. 
Antheree inaperte rosee. Styli semper 5, glabriusculi. Poma fere tot quot 
flores, pist majoris magnitudine, spherica, glabra, atro-purpurea, acerba, 
calyce parvo staminibusque persistentibus coronata. 
So many different plants are to be found either in 
gardens or herbaria, to which the definitions of the Pyrus 
arbutifolia and P. melanocarpa of authors are applicable, 
that we know not on which of those many kinds to fix 
those names. Without attempting to enter into any 
critical examination of this point, we may be here per- 
mitted to distinguish this species at least as a very distinct 
form from any to which the name of Pyrus arbutifolia can 
be applied. In the downiness of its leaves and calyces it 
agrees with that plant, but in the colour of its fruit it 
resembles P. melanocarpa; in habit, it is in a manner 
intermediate between the two; and in its peculiar charac- 
ters very distinct from both. 
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