Tap, 8546, 
COTONEASTER rursinatra. 
China. 
RosacEAE. Tribe Pomear. 
CotonzastTeR, Medik. ex Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p 627. 
Cotoneaster turbinata, Craib; a C. pannosa, Franch., eiusque affinioribns 
fructu turbinato facile distinguenda; a C. coriacea, Franch., foliis apice 
plerumque acutis nec emarginatis, fructu minore turbinato recedit. 
' Frutex 2-metralis, _Ramuli juventute sericei, mox tomentosi, demum glabri vel 
hic illic puberuli, cortice brunneo vel fusco-brunneo subnitido striato vel 
reticulato-striato obtecti. Folia oblanceolata ad ovato-lanceolata, apice 
acuta, obtusa vel rarius rotundata, mucronulata, basi parum inaequilateralia, 
cuneata, 1°5-4°5 em. longa, 0-7-2 cm. lata, papyracea vel tenuiter coriacea, 
pagina superiore nisi costa pilis paucis albis instructa glabra, inferiore 
molliter sericeo-arachnoidea, costa supra immersa subtus tka 
nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 8 supra leviter impressis vel conspicuis 
subtus prominulis, nervulis cum reticulatione gracili supra conspicuis vel 
fere subprominulis, petiolo ad 7 mm. longo supra canaliculato indumento 
ramulorum suffulto; stipulae lineares, acutae, ad 5 mm. longae, diutius 
persistentes.  Inflorescentia compacta, multiflora, corymbiformis vel 
pyramidato-corymbiformis ; pedunculi partiales ad 1 cm. longi; pedicelli 
ad 3 mm. longi, indumento ut pedunculi ramulique; bracteae angustae, 
acutae, ad 2°75 mm. longae, dorso pilosae. got Meme 1-5 mm. altum. 
Sepala deltoidea, acuta, 1:5 mm. longa et lata, indumento extra ut pedicelli. 
Petala subrotundata, 2 mm. (ungui incluso) longa, 1°75 mm. lata. Fila- 
menta 2 mm. longa, glabra,antheris parvis. Carpel/a2 parva, pilosa, ovulis 
binis erectis, stylis 2 circiter 2mm. longis. Fructus turbinatus, circiter 
4 mm. altus, tenuiter arachnoideus.—W. G. Cras. 
The Cotoneaster which forms the subject of our illustration 
was received at Kew from the collection of Mr. M. L. 
de Vilmorin at Les Barres in 1910 under the two numbers 
4484 and 4547. The seed from which the first of these 
was raised was received, Mr. de Vilmorin informs us, in 
June, 1897, from the Abbé Farges, who had collected them 
during the previous year to the north of Ichang in Eastern 
Szechuan. The original plant in Mr. de Vilmorin’s garden 
fruited in 1903. The seed from which the second was raised 
was received in November, 1905, from Mr. C. Sprenger 
of Naples, who informed Mr. de Vilmorin that it had come 
from Hupeh. This latter, Mr. de Vilmorin states, suffered 
trom frost during the winter of 1908-9, but soon recovered. 
The species has grown very well at Kew since its intro- 
duction, and by 1913 the tallest plant had reached six feet 
in height. It is evidently very hardy and vigorous and 
Marca, 1914, 
