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in UnruBay 1874, 204. S. glaucescens and S. Nnssia, Dene. Mem. Fnm, Pom. 

 178. Crataegus glauca, Wall. Cat 673. Pyrus Nussia, ITam. in Don Prodr. 

 237. Ootoneaster affinis, LindL in Wall. Cat. 658. 



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iicDLciii fciuu oeiurax rumaiaya ; ivuMAON, ait. <j-youu it. iNiPAX, WaUich, 

 Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft. 



i^S -^ small leafy evergreen tree, very variable in foliage, young parts tomentose in a 

 very early state. Leaves in Western specimens often 6 in. long and 2-2^ broad, more 

 obovatethanis usual in the Eastern, hardly shining above, paler beneath ; inKhasian 

 ■pccimens the leaves are sometimes 4 by ^-| in., long-acuminate and curved (var. an- 

 gustifolia^ Dene.), always narrowing into the petiole; nerves very slender; petiole 

 J-f in. Corymbs 2-4 in. broad; branches slender, hairy or glabrate. Flowers pedi- 

 celled, ^^ in. diam., pedicels woolly. Calyx woolly; lobes acute, persistent. Petals 

 spreading, usually notched, not oblique. Ovary small ; crown hardly raised, hairy, 

 pr^ffi-column woolly below. Frtiit | in. diam., orange yellow, crowned with the in- 

 curved calyx-teeth ; flesh thin : crown of the crustaceous carpels exserted, elabrous. 



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24. CRATH:GUS, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, often spiny. Leaves simple lobed or pinnatifid ; sti- 

 piues deciduous. Floicers in terminal corj-mbose cymes, white or red ; bracts 

 cauucou5. Cahjx^tnbe urceolate or campanulate ; mouth contracted ; lobes 5^ 

 pereistent or deciduous. Petals 5, inserted at the mouth of the calyx, imbricate 

 ^bud. Stamens \m.nj . Carpels 1-5, adnate to the calyx-tube; styles 1-5; 

 .fitigma truncate ; ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. Fruit ovoid or globose, 

 ■'^th a bony 1-5-celled stone, or -with 1-5 bony 1- rarely 2-seeded stones. — Dis- 

 ^12. N". temp, regions, chiefly American, extending south into New Granada ; 

 "pecies about 60. 



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^ 1. C, Oxyacantha, ienw. ; Ledeb. FL Ross. ii. 88; leaves cimeate or 

 ^angular-ovate with a cuneate base pinnatifidly 3-5-lobed rarely pinnate sinus 

 5^^™? lobes sharply toothed towards the tip, fruit glabrous ovoid, carpels 1-3 

 ^oUy adnate to the calyx-tube. Brandis Far. Fl. 207. 0. ribesius, -B^r^o/. 

 ^el. Pot. xxii. 14, t. 2. (Hawthorn). 



^..Western temperate Himalaya, from Mtjreee to Kishtwar, alt. 6-9000 ft.— Dis 



^- Affghanistan and westward to the Atlantic, W. Siberia. 

 lea t!^^^^ ^^®®' 20-30 ft., trunk short, branches spinescent ; young shoots and 

 ayes beneath and inflorescence sparsely softly pubescent or glabrate. Leaves 1-2 in. ; 

 Peuole very slender ; stipules leafy, upper usually falcate, serrate, lower larger or- 

 C^ 7 ^^^ ^^^' Corymbs many-flowered. Flowers i in. diam., white, odorous. 

 Jl^Ti ^^^^c^te. Petals orbicular. Styles 1 or 2, slender, glabrous. Carpels 

 ft^ntl^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^® length to the calyx-tube, tips pubescent. Fruit scarlet, flesh 

 the n-' ^^*^^*^^T> of 2-3 bony pyrenes more or less firmly united.— Boissier regards 

 0^ f ^'^^^an plant as C. monogyiia (itself a var. of Oxyacantha) but there are com- 

 ^y 2 and often 3 styles and carpels. 



natiM^' ^'^arkei, TZboA;./.; softly tomentose, leaves oUong pinnate or pin- 

 Tmvf ' ^^^ cuneate or truncate, segments oblong toothed at the broad tip, fruit 

 f^ Descent globose, carpels 5, free above. 



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often f^^^ce ^°^^' ^"^^*^®» spreading. Leaves 2-4 in., opaque above, lower segments 

 tej/ ,^® ^^o^ate and spreading, tips rounded or acute; petiole slender; stipules 

 ia C n^^* semicircular and falcate, toothed, Flowers apparently smaller than 

 ^ahi j^^^^^^^^ and fewer in the corymb, which is clothed with spreading hairs. 

 y^'iobes persistent, obtuse. Petals (from fruiting specimen) orbicular-obovate. 



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