+> Tap. 8594. 
COTONEASTER PANNOSA. 
Western China. 
RosacEak. Tribe PoMAcEAEg. 
CoTonEAsTER, Medik.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 627. 
Cotoneaster pannosa, Franch. in Plant. Delavay. p. 223; Bois in Rev, 
Hort. 1907, p. 256; species C. Franchetui, Bois, quaacum nonnunquam in 
fruticetis confusa, quam maxime affinis, apte tamen foliis minoribus longius 
petiolatis gs magis patentibus fructu minore saturatius rubrescente 
distinguenda. 
Frutex deciduus, 2°25-2°5-metralis, laxe graciliterque ramosa ; ramuli juniores 
graciles, primum pallide fusco-tomentosi, demum glabri latereque subdiali 
atro-purpurascentes. Folia ovata vel elliptica, apice acuta obtusa vel 
rotundata, basi cuneata, margine integra, 0°8-3 cm. longa, 0°4-1°5 cm. 
lata, supra sordide viridia primum parce pilosa, subtus dense cano- 
tomentosa ; nervi laterales utrinsecus 4—6, obliqui; petiolus 0°6 cm. longus, 
tomentosus. Inflorescentia corymbosa; corymbi 2°5-3 cm. lati, ramulos 
foliigeros abbreviatos terminantes, 15-25-flori, anthesi aestivales. Flores 
albi, 0°6-0°9 cm. lati; calycis lobi 5, triangulari-ovati, dense lanosi; 
petala 5, patentia, orbicularia; stamina circiter 20, antheris puniceis; 
styli 2-3. Fructus globosus vel ovatus, 0°6 cm. longus, saturate ruber, 
tomento laxo plus minusve obtectus; pyrenae saepissime 2, compresso- 
ovoideae, apice floccosae.—W. J. BEAN. 
The Cotoneaster which forms the subject of our figure 
was discovered in 1886 on limestone mountains in South- 
western Yunnan at altitudes of about 8,000 feet above 
sea-level by the late Abbé Delavay. Young plants were 
raised in 1888 from seeds sent by him to the Jardin des 
Plantes, Paris, whence, six years later, the plant from 
which material for our illustration has been prepared 
was sent to Kew. In collections C. pannosa is sometimes 
confused with C. Franchetii, Bois, to which it is closely 
allied. Both have the same marked elegance in growth 
and both are characterised by a thick tomentum on the 
young shoots, lower surface of the leaves, pedicels and 
calyx. But C. pannosa is readily distinguished from C. 
ranchetii by its smaller leaves with longer petioles, purer 
white and more spreading petals, and smaller fruits of a 
duller deeper red. In the fruiting spray depicted on our 
plate it will be observed that the majority of the fruits 
JANUARY, 1915, 
