. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. I>ocynla] XLYI. EOSAOE.E 289 8. DOCYNIA, Becaisne; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 369. Bmall or middle-sized deciduous trees, I. simple, stipules small. Fl, white solitary, or in few-M. umbels. Oalyx-tube clavate, petals 5; with long woolly claws. Ovary 5 celled, styles 5, connate and woolly below the middle, ovules H in each cell. Species 2. 1. D. indica, Due.—Syn. P^/rus Indlca^ Wall. PL As. Ear, t. 173 ; Kurz F. Fl. i. 441. Young shoots and un- dersi
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. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. I>ocynla] XLYI. EOSAOE.E 289 8. DOCYNIA, Becaisne; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 369. Bmall or middle-sized deciduous trees, I. simple, stipules small. Fl, white solitary, or in few-M. umbels. Oalyx-tube clavate, petals 5; with long woolly claws. Ovary 5 celled, styles 5, connate and woolly below the middle, ovules H in each cell. Species 2. 1. D. indica, Due.—Syn. P^/rus Indlca^ Wall. PL As. Ear, t. 173 ; Kurz F. Fl. i. 441. Young shoots and un- derside of leaves denselv white-woolly, leaves ovate* lanceolate, indistinctly toothed, blade 2-3, petiole ^-| in. lona;; on younej shoots gdabrous, larger and lobed, often pinnatihd. FL white, calyx densely white-woolly. Fr. yellow, ovoid, 1.^-2 in. long, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb, edible. Sikkim 3-6, 000 ft., Bliutan. Kliasi MIK, Manipur. HilK ot Upper Burma. PI. Feb.- Mareli.—China. 2. B. Hook- eriana, Dne., Khasi liillh, 1. glabrous^ 4-5 iu. long, ob- long-lanceolate, fr. between tubiform and ellipboLcl. pi^, . 124.~Docyma indica, Dne. .. 9, CYDONIA, Tourn.; FL Brit. Ind. in 368. Deciduous shrubs or trees, 1. simple, stipules lax-ge, oblique. FL solitary or in few-ild. umbels. Ovary 5-celled, styles 5, in the lower part connate an<l woolly, ovules numerous in each cell. Species 4, Mediterranean region and China. 1. C. vulgaris, Pei-s.—Syn. Fynts Cydonla^ Linn.; Brandis F. FL 205. Quince, Vern. Blhl^ Hind. A large shrub, branchlets, underside of leaves, peduncles and calyx white- tomentose. Leaves ovate from an obtuse base, entire, petioles short, stipules oblong, obtuse, glandular-serrate. Fl. white, 2 in. across. Calyx-lobes leafy, glandular-serrate, longer than tube. Fr. large, clothed with grey woolly tomentum, o-celled, endocarp cartilaginous. Seeds many, testa mucilaginous. Probably wild in Western Asia, cultivated in N. "Y. India. PL Marcb-ApriL 2.