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COTONEASTER* frigida. 
‘Mountain Cotoneaster. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomacex. Lindley Synops. p. 103.  Rosacearum. Sectio 
Juss. Decand. 
COTONEASTER Medicus. Lindl. in Linn. trans. 13. p. 101.— 
Flores sepiüs polygami. Calyx turbinatus, obtusè 5-dentatus. . Petala 
brevia, erecta v. patentia. Stamina dentium longitudine. Styli glabri, 
staminibus breviores, Nuces parietales, calyce incluse. —— Arbusculee 
(Europe et Indie). Folia simplicia, integerrima, infra pilis obsita. Cyme 
laterales, patentes. _Bractee subulate, decidue. Petala parva, diu per- 
sistentia. 
C. frigida; cymis multifloris lanuginosis, foliis ovali-lanceolatis subtüs 
tomentosis deciduis, caule arboreo. 
C. frigida. Wallich MSS. È 
Arbor mediocris, ramis patentibus, subsimplicibus, cinereo-purpureis, 
cortice trunci fisso. Folia ovali-lanceolata, mucronulata, decidua, suprà 
glabra, subtùs, ramulisque novellis, tomentosa. Cymi terminales, multiflori, 
lanuginosi. Calyces lanuginosi, 5-dentati ; petala aiba, subrotunda, pa- 
tentia. Styli et ovaria 2. Poma pisiformia, rubra ; nuces 2, monosperma. 
For the discovery of this very fine new species of Cotoneaster 
the world is indebted to Dr. Wallich, by whose plant-collectors it 
was brought from the mountains of that northern region of Nipal 
called Gossain Than. With us it forms a small but very hand- 
some deciduous tree, snow-white with blossom during April and 
May, and crimsoned with bunches of bright-red haws in the months 
of September and October. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society, in which is a fine plant, raised from seeds received from 
the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. It 
is perfectly hardy, and may be increased abundantly by grafting upon 
the Whitethorn stock. 
When we published, some years since, a revision of the genera of 
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* Derived from Cotonea.(malus), the old name of the Quince; and aster, 
a corruption of ad instar, similar. The genus, and this species in particular, 
is not unlike the Quince. 
