Plate 9371 - Pieris formosa

Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Plate 9371 Pieris formosa Family: ERICACEAE • Tribe: ANDROMEDEAE • Native Region: Eastern Himalaya • Publication Date: October 1st, 1934 Distribution: Crete, Greece, W. Asia Minor, N. Syria. • Tab Author: W. B. TURRILL. Botanical Description Since the founding of the genus Pieris by David Don exactly a century ago, with P. formosa as the type species (Bot. Mag. t. 8283), a remarkable diversity of plants has been included in it. True species of Pieris can, however, be readily distinguished from all pretenders by their firmly coriaceous, serrulate leaves, and by the racemes being aggregated into terminal generally leafless panicles. Thus limited, the genus contains, so far as is known, some half- dozen species, morphologically well defined and geographically isolated. Two are natives of the New World: P. floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f., in the south-eastern United States (Bot. Mag. t. 1566), and P. cubensis (Griseb.) Small, confined to the island of Cuba. Japan has one species, P. japonica (Thunb.) D. Don; Formosa is the home of P. taiwanensis Hayata (Bot. Mag. t. 9016); and P. Swinhoei Hemsl. occurs in the coastal provinces of south-eastern. Synonyms Syn. P. Forrestii Harrow in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. VIII. 196 (1914). Since the founding of the genus Pieris by David Don About This Print Original black and white uncolored botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine (established 1787). This 9000s series print is from unissued publisher stock, never hand-colored, representing the authentic plate as it appeared in the magazine. Edited by Sir Arthur William Hill for The Royal Horticultural Society, London.