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Cotoneaster,"} Li. ROSACEiE. (J.D.Hooker.) 387 



acuminate glabrous above sparsely silky beneath, nerves distinct, margins 

 subrecurved, flowers solitary or twin subsessile, fruit turbinate scarlet. 0. 

 acuminata, var. Simondsii, Dcme. Mem, Fam. Pom, 175. 



^;i KhaSIaMts.? 



V'*'^ °^&i^.of tbisis unknown. It is probably named after Mr. Simons who col- 

 lected largely in the Khasia Mts.' and who may have sent seeds to England from 

 .9?. fi'o^ Bhotan. It is remarkable that it occurs in no Indian Herbarium, but 

 so TOuId be the fact, that except this be a native of the Khasia, that range should 

 possess no Cotoneaster. It very nearly resembles C. rotimdlfolia. 



B. Leaves persistent, rigid, ^ in. long ; margins recurved. Flowers almost 

 always solitary. (See also C. nummulariay rotundifolia and Simondsiu) 



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C. microphylla, JValL Cat. 662 A. ; a low ramoxis woody intri- 

 -^ branched shrub, leaves i in. ovate or obovate acute retuse or obtuse 

 glossy above pubescent or tofnentose beneath, margins recurved, flowers ^ in. 

 diam., fruit globose scarlet. Lindl. in JBoL Reg. t. 1114 ; Saundei^s Befug. Bot 

 ^^. 49; Brandts For, FL 209. C. emarginata, Hoffm, according to Decaime 

 Mm Fam, Pom. 176. ? 0. buxifolia, Bakei' in ^aunden 



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j' Temperate Himalaya, alt. 4-8000 ft. from Kashmir to Bhotan;— var. glacialis 

 9-14,000 ft. 

 1 dried state it is very difficult to distinguish this from the following, and from 

 «ngle flowered states of C. buxifolia. I suspect that the C, buxifolia of Saunders* 

 ^Jugiiim is a state of this, though it may be a 1-flowered state of buxifolia. 

 ^t^..-.VAH. glacialis ; leaves glabrous and glaucous beneath, flowers smaller often pink, 

 ^.congesta, Ba^er in Saunders Befug. i. t. 51. 



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0- C, thymifolia, Hort.\ Baker in SaunderSyRefua. Bot.i. t. 50; an 

 ^ ^t. prostrate woody intricately branched shrub, leaves 4-4 in. cuneate-ob- 



,, ^te or oblonir tin ronndp/1 or tv»fii'sft alossv above nube 



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^ ^^,?"loii^ tip rounded or refuse glossv above pubescent or tomentose 

 iTf^^^n' ^^^gi^s recurved, flowers solitary ^ m. diara., fruit small globose scar- 

 f^^.- C. microphylla, TT^ZZ. Cai^. 662, B. Crataegus integrifolia,-fferi. -Hii?«. 



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Temperate and Alpine Himalaya from Kashmir, Falconer, to Sikkim, J. D, H. 



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great doubt; in habit the two are identical, but C. thymifolia 



that 



^at are never elliptic or ovate or acute, but always broader upwards and rounded 

 tuse at the tip ; the flowers are smaller, but this is not a character of much val 



or 



anil -,,,. -^-■^•^"^cu. witii Lrue mwroVi 



^^ VVmterbottom from Nynee Tal. 



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micTophylla by 



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wni. P' '»»»xifolla, Wall. Cat. G61 ; a smaU rigid intncately branched 

 J^y busli, leaves ^ in. eUiptic-ovate acute or apiculate dull not sliming and 

 fl-r^ P^oescent above densely tomentose beneath, margins recurved, cymes 2-6- 

 °^ered tomentose short, fruit globose scarlet. Wight Ic. t. 992 ; Seddome 

 2¥f<'t. Anal. Gen. xcvii. 1. 13, f. 3. C. affinis, DC. P>-odr. u. 632 (t/^e Ail- 

 ?2:!^ J>iant). 0. lanata, Hort. : Hegel Gartenjl. ix. 59. ^ 



8njjJ''^^em Peninsula, NiLaumi and Pulney Mts. ? Temperate Himalaya from 



lU ' *^<^- 4-7000 ft. to Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft., Griffith. ^ . , , . , . , 

 to»;r7^ "iDder C. microphylla statfd that it is difficult to distinguish dried single- 

 v^l^^^^Pecimens of this from that plant, though, in their ordinary states they are 

 to^n 1 P"*' C-. bu.vifolia having an opaque and oft^n hoary or hairy upper surface 

 Wl ^^' ''^'^^h is more regular in shape, and several-flowered cymes, with smaller 

 to tkll°^ fr^t.' 'I am in great doubt as to any of the Himalayan specimens referred 

 /"'-being other than 2-3.flo-H'ered states of microphylla. . The C. lanata of Lindley 



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