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LI. ROSACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



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Sti/les inserted ventrally, free. Carpels free for nearly ^ of the upper part from 

 one another and the calyx-tube. Fruit green, 5-lobed -when dry, \ in. diam., 

 crowned by the reflexed calyx-lobes; pyrenes separable, free above, faces rough. — The 

 structure of the ovary and fruit is essentially the same as in the following species, but 

 the tops of the pyrenes are not so much protruded. ,ir 



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3. C. crenulata, Roxh. HorL Bmg. 38 ; FL Ind. ii. 509 ; glabrouS; 

 leaves linear-oblong or obovate crenulate obtuse very coriaceous, fruit globose, 

 carpels 5 free above. Wall. Cat. 674 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxx. t. 52. 0. Pyr- 

 acantha, Brandts For. FL 208. Mespilus crenulata, Don Prodr. 238. Pyra- 

 cantha crenulata, Roe^n. ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 171. ^*^^ 



Temperate Himalaya in dry places from the Sirmob to Bhotan (exclusive of 

 Sikkim), alt. 2500-8000 ft. '^^ 



A large woody rigid spinescent shrub. Leaves crowded on short lateral branch- 

 lets, 1-2 in., shining, narrowed into the very shortpetiole ; nerves indistinct. Corymbs 

 short, many-flowered, glabrous or puberulous ; branches slender. Flowers \-^ in- 

 diam., white ; pedicels slender. Calyx-tube hemispheric ; lobes obtuse. Petals orbi- 

 cular, claw very short. Styles 5, inserted ventrally. Carpels 5, free for \ of their, 

 upper part from one another and the calyx-tube. Fruit globose, orange-red, crowned 

 with the erect calyx-lobes ; pyrenes separable, faces polished, upper | free and pro- 

 truded between the calyx-lobes. — Differs from the European C. Pyracantha in the 

 obtuse leaves and smaller flowers and fruit. 



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25. COTONEASTER, Xtnn 



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Shrubs or small trees. 



Leaves quite entire, coriaceoufi, usually very downy 

 "beneath; stipules setaceous, deciduous. Flowers svii?l\ sob'+«rv or in axillary 



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terminal cymes 



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Calyx-tube turbinate 



- Carpels 2-5, adnate whoUy or by their 

 2-5, jfree, stigma truncate ; ovules J m 

 k. i„^.^„i p,^ii gmall, ovoid globose or 



turbinate, with 2-5 bony 1-seeded stones. — Distrib. Europe, 

 Africa, Mexico ; species 15. 



A genus distinguishable only by habit from C 

 variable and difficult of discrimination. 



temp. Asia; 



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3 not recurved. 

 * Leaves 1-4 in. 



(subpersistent in nwnmularia and 7'otundifoUa 



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vy-Jlowered. 



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1. C. bacUlarls, TTaZ/. ; izWZ. in Bot. Reg. under i.\22Q\ a ^^^^ ^ 

 small tree, leaves 1^3 in. oblong or obovate or oblong-lanceolate woolly or g 

 brescent beneath acute or obtuse narrowed into the petiole, cymes short "^V 

 flowered puberulous, fruit dark brown globose. Brandts For. FL 208 ; ^ 

 Cat. G60. 0. obtusa, WalL in Bat. Reg. L c. j Cat. 659, in part. .,:- 



Temperate Himalaya, from Wazaeistan, alt. 4-8000ft. ; Murbee and ^^f^^A' 

 alt. 4-10,000 ft. to Nepal, Sikkim? and Bhotan?. Salt, range, alt. 1600-^ovy^ r^, 

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A common and variable deciduous Himalayan shrub ; wood much used for w ^^ 

 sticks, whence its specific name. Of Wallich's C. obtusa, I cannot distinguish \^^.^^^^ 

 the specimens frombacillaris even as a variety; Lindley's character of 'l^^^^^jjiett 

 gested and branchlets glabrous " in obtusa, and " cymes divaricate and "^^ ugi 

 pilose " in baciUaris, do not distinguish Wallich's var. The other specimens ma^ .. 



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