ROSACEAE. — COTONEASTER 163 
reticulo supra leviter impresso v. obsoleto subtus obsoleto, parenchy- 
mate non v. vix bullato; petioli 2-4 mm. longi, sparse pilosi, demum 
glabrescentes v. glabri. Corymbus 3-7-florus, ramulos laterales termi- 
nans, pedicelli cum pedunculo 1-1.5 em. longi, rarissime longiores, 
villoso-strigillosi, bracteis bracteolisque subulatis parce strigilloso- 
villosis; calyx cum dentibus dense v. interdum laxius subaccumbenti- 
setoso-villosus, dentes interdum dorso glabrescentes; petala orbiculari- 
obovata, 4.5-5 mm. longa et 3.5—4 lata, breviter unguiculata, concava, 
erecta, alba roseo afflata; stamina fere 20, sepalis longiora; carpidia 
2-5, apice dense villosa. Fructus subglobosus, 7-8 mm. diam., niger; 
pyrenae 2-5 plerumque 3-4, triangulari-obovoideae, 4-5 mm. longae et 
3.5-4.5 latae, ventre carinatae, nitidae, stylum vix tertiam partem infra 
apicem gerentes, dorso irregulariter sulcatae et foveolatae, hypostylio 
tertiam v. vix tertiam partem dorsi occupante parce villoso v. glabro 
nitidulo. 
Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, alt. 1600-2000 m., September 
1907 (No. 147, type); Fang Hsien, alt. 1600-2500 m., thickets, Sep- 
tember 1907 (Nos. 271, 273, 319); north and south of Ichang, alt. 
1000-2000 m., June and September 1907 (Nos. 2175, 156 as to fruit); 
Pao-kang Hsien, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1291); no locality, A. 
Henry (No. 6328). 
. Cotoneaster foveolata is closely related to C. moupinensis Franchet, which differs 
in the thicker more rugose leaves, the many-flowered inflorescence, glabrescent 
calyx, and in the narrower stones usually 5 or 4 in each fruit and with only a 
shallow furrow on the dorsal side., 
Cotoneaster moupinensis Franchet-in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 
3, viii. 224 (Pl. David. ii. 42) ((1885). — Schneider, IU. Handb. Laub- 
holzk. I. 747 (1906). 
Western Szech’uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1300-2000 m., June 
and September 1908 (No.857, in part; bush 1-2.5 m. tall, flowers white, 
fruit black); Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 2000-2300 m., June and Septem- 
ber 1908 (No. 857, in part; bush 2-5 m. tall, flowers pinkish, fruit 
black); west and near Wén-ch’uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 
m., June 1908 (No. 2180, in part; bush 2-3 m. tall). 
The fruit, whi cribed, i obose, 7-10 mm. in diam- 
eter with E a a pe ruin ml ae opening in the middle; 
stones 3-5, generally 4-5, narrowly triangular-obovoid, 4-5 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. 
wide, dull yellowish and irregularly and slightly furrowed on the dorsal side, hypo- 
Style small, lustrous brownish ick covering one third or less of the dorsal side. 
is the common Cotoneaster in the thickets and margins of woods oy nil 
stern Szech'uan, The flowers are slightly larger and the leaves less wrinkled 
