Tas. 8010. 
COTONEASTER Rorunpirorta. 
ae North India. 
Rosacea. Tribe Pome. 
CotongasterR, Medik.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 627. 
Cotoneaster rotundifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 663; Lind/. Bot. oS sub tab. 1229 ; 
Saunders Ref. Bot. vol. i. t. 54; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii, p.:386; 
inter affines fructus magnitudine distincta. 
Frutex suberectus, 3—4-pedalis, dense ramosus, ramis seepe distichis pubescen- 
tibus. Folia decidua, disticha, distincte petiolata, crassiuscula, sapius 
fere orbicularia, maxima circiter 4 poll. diametro, interdum obovata, 
apiculata, glabrescentia, subtns pallidiora; stipule lineares, persistentes. 
Flores roseo-albi, circiter } poll. diametro, brevissime pedicellati. Calyx — 
glabrescens, lobis rotundatis ciliolatis in fructu persistentibus. Petala 
fere orbicularia. Stamina quam petala breviora. Fructus «turbinatus, 
circiter 4 poll. longus, saturate coccineus.—C. microphylla, var wva-ursi, 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1187; C. prostrata, Baker, Saunders Ref. Bot. t.53. 
It is a singular thing, that with the exception of C. 
laviflora, Jacq. (t. 3519), which is not a particularly 
showy species, the ornamental genus Cotoneaster has been, 
till now, unrepresented in this Magazine. C. rotundifolia 
is one of the most desirable for winter decoration, and the 
only one in the open collection at Kew that carried its 
berries through the severe frosts and destructive fogs of 
the last season. In the middle of February it was still in 
excellent condition south of the Temperate House. 
C. horizontalis, Dene., was also very striking at Kew last 
season, though it did not retain its beauty so long as 
C. rotundifolia. A coloured figure of it is given in the 
«“ Revue Horticole” (1889, p. 348), with smaller pieces of 
several other species for comparison. 
Among the more recently introduced species of Chinese 
origin, . pannosa, Franch., and CO. Franchetii, Bois, are 
specially deserving of notice. They are quite distinct 
from the present one in having slender branches, and con- 
sequently a more graceful habit. There is a coloured 
figure of the former in *‘ Le Jardin ” (1898, p. 120), which 
represents the somewhat smaller, deep crimson berries as 
clustered at the ends of short, lateral branchlets. The 
latter is reported from elevations of above 8,000 feet in 
Eastern Tibet. : 
Aprit ist, 1905, 
