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Cotoneaster .] li. eosacejb. (J. D. Hooker.) 385 



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as ohtusa are the C. affinis of Lindley and differ only in the tomentose undersurface 

 of the leaves and corymbs, which in this respect present every intermediate with 

 oacularis ; its leaves are however often smaller rounder and sometimes rounded at the 

 ^e (G rosea, Edgw.). I am somewhat doubtful of the Sikkim and Bhotan plants here 

 referred to bacillaris, I do not remember a black or dark brown fruited large shrubby 

 ^ecies m Sikkim, and Griffith s Bhotan specimens are in flower only ; one of these 

 nas leaves under 1 in. long. The Sikkim specimens doubtfully referred here have the 

 ^^\^ of ^j^^"« and a young shoot has them sometimes almost orbicular, rounded at 

 tne base (as in rosea) and 2 in. diam. Except by the dark berries it is difficult to 

 mstinguish var. affinis from C. frigida. 



^\\kn. affinis ; leaves beneath petioles young shoots and inflorescence more or less 

 woolly or tomentose. C. affinis, Li7id.L in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 101; Bot, Reg. 

 *^t. 1229. C.obtusa, Wall. CaL 659, in part. C. rosea, Edgw. in Trans. Linyx, 



/=^- XX. 46. Mespilus affinis, Bon Prodr. 238. 



o" ^^^'P^^vifolia ; leaves ^1 in. elliptic acute or obtuse, cymes short dense-flowered, 



lowers smaller. Bhotan, Griffith, alt. 7000 ft. 





^- c. frigrida, Wall, a 



Oblong or oblong-lanceolate ac 

 cymes very many-flowered ^ 

 ^^^29. V 0. affinis, ITohen 



scarlet. LindL in Bot, Reg. 



\ No. 1575. 0. nepalensLs, 



.■ p^'^^^al and Eastern Himalaya: Nipal, Wallick, interior of Sikkim, alt. 



'-9J00 ft, j; z>. iz; ^ 



eUln^^^^^' 20 ft, high, or large bush, deciduous, similar in habit and foliage to C. ha- 

 he v' ^^^ .""^ith far more numerous flowers in a cyme and scarlet berries. Ho- 

 IjQ^vt^ Nilgiri specimens, which I take to h^fvlgida, are from a tree cultivated in 

 ^L.^^, ^^PWnstone's garden at Kaitee. Decaisne quotes Jacquemont as having found 

 occ ^ s^^spect that C. bacillaris var. affinis is the plant intended, as C. frigida 

 cuw nowhere in Jacquemont's region of travel. 



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Leaves ^-2 (rarely 4-5) in. Cymes few-Jloicered or flow 



8. c. 



u. acuminata 



tWll?S IpflTfOQ "krino, 



iu"bescent 



acuminate 



fln^ J iu. ovate acuminate or acute at lengtn giaorous oeueatu, i;^ uico x-w- 

 wered very short, fruit turbinate scarlet. Brandvi For. FL 209. R. 

 .^yiei or Royleana, Hart. G. rotundifolia. Herb. Str. & Wint, rwt of Wallich 



aciuninata 



. Temperate Himalaya, from Sikmor and Kumaon, alt. 4500-12,000 ft., to Sikkim, 

 '"^•7-13,000 ft. 



W7,^®.<=i^«ous shrub, sometimes 14 ft. high; wood used for walking sticks (like 

 nonT^l' *^e most constant in form of foliage of any Indian species except bi- 

 t^Jfh '^'so in their size, about 2 in., though in one of Wallich's specimens they ex- 

 C«^ •"■ '""^'^^ fi-uit varies from turbinate to subcampanulate. The number of 

 WtsS-f" a cyme varies extremely, Brandis says from 2-10, I find 2-5 the average, 

 . "wry flowers are not uncommon. 



»n>ento8e 



lei ; 



▼^ff aria, Lindl. : Bmss. FL Orient 



■ viUff aria, Lindl. ; Bmss. FL Orient, u. UUo ; an erect du»u, lea) «» 

 % 2 in. broadlj ovate acute or obtuse hoary or glabrous above softly 

 e beneath, cymes short few-flowered glabrescent, fruit globose black or 



fersiol^^''^ Tibet and Waztteistan, alt. 5-11.000 ft.— Distkib. Siberia, Soongaria, 



Cr^"^ ^*^ tf-^ Atlantic. 

 Henftfi r L ^^®°^er erect deciduous shrub, varying much in form of foliage and pu- 

 *=« of both surfaces : it« habit, more ovate leaves, and fewer flowered cymes, best 



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