ROSACEAE. — COTONEASTER 165 
June 1908 (No. 2181, bush 2 m. tall, flowers pinkish); Mt. Omei, alt. 
2300-2800 m., October 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3515 a). 
This variety resembles in its many-flowered corymbs C. bullata, f. floribunda, 
n. comb. (C. moupinensis, f. floribunda Stapf), which is easily distinguished by its 
much smaller leaves generally ovate or sometimes obovate and rounded at the 
base and more densely pubescent beneath, and by the pubescent calyx and the 
chestnut brown branches. 
Cotoneaster Franchetii Bois in Rev. Hort., 1902, 379, figs. 159, 160, 
161, 164; 1907, 256, fig. 90. t.; in Vilmorin & Bois, Frut. Vilmorin. 
117, 2 fig. (1904); in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. iii. 228 (1906). 
Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2500-2900 m., 
September 1908 (No. 995; bush 2-3 m. tall, fruit bright red); Niu- 
tou-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, alt. 2300 m., June 1908 (No. 2171); 
west and near Wén-ch’uan Hsien, alt. 2000-2600 m., October 1910 
(No. 4160; bush 1.5-3 m. tall, fruit scarlet). 
Our specimens differ from the cultivated type only in the bracts and bractlets 
of the inflorescence being rather short. 
1 A closely related species is the following, of which a full description may be 
added here: 
Cotoneaster amoena Wilson in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LI. 2, fig. 1 (1912). 
Frutex 1-1.5 m. altus, dense ramosus; ramuli hornotini subaccumbenti-villosi, 
annotini tarde glabrescentes, demum fusco-purpurei; gemmae tomento subaccum- 
benti-villoso cinereo-albido obtectae. Folia decidua, ovata v. elliptico-ovalia, acuta 
mucronulata, basi late cuneata, 10-22 mm. plerumque 15 mm. longa et 6-15 mm., 
plerumque 6-10 mm. lata, supra sparse pubescentia, subtus villoso-tomentosa, 
utrinsecus nervis 2-4 ut costa supra impressis subtus elevatis; petioli tomentosi, 
2-5 mm. longi; stipulae membranaceae, subulatae, pubescentes, 4-5 mm. longae. 
Corymbus densus, 6-10-florus, ramulos laterales breves foliosos terminans, brac- 
teis bracteolisque subulatis membranaceis caducis 3-5 mm. longis; calycis tubus 
tomento subaccumbenti-villoso albido obtectus, dentes anguste triangulari-ovati, 
sensim in aristam fuscescentem producti; petala rotundata, breviter unguicu- 
lata, erecta, 2-2.5 mm. longa lataque; stamina 20, sepalis breviora v. aequilonga; 
carpidia 2-3, apice villosa. Fructus globosus, 5-6 mm. diam., miniatus, subsessilis, 
apice villosulus; pyrenae 2-3, triangulari-obovoideae, 4-5 mm. longae, ventre 
carinatae, nitentes, stylum trientem infra apicem gerentes, dorso medio leviter 
sulcatae saepe etiam sulcis obsoletis lateralibus praeditae, hypostylio brunneo 
nitido trientem dorsi occupante. A 
Yunnan: This description is drawn up from specimens made from plants in 
Hort. Veitch. under No. 1889 raised from seeds collected southwest of Mengtze, 
alt. 1600-1700 m. (Veitch Exped.; type in Herb. Arnold Arboretum); mountains 
north of Mengtze, A. Henry (No. 11341). 3 e 
Closely allied to Cotoneaster Franchetii Bois, which is distinguished by its lax 
spreading habit, larger cymes, longer peduncles and longer pedicels and by its 
broader, less acuminate sepals. The living plants show greater differences than 
the herbarium material would lead one to suspect. Henry's No. 10785 has longer 
leaves and glabrescent sepals and is evidently from a vigorous plant. 
