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oval, three-fourths to 1{ inches long, one-fourth to five-eighths inch 

 wide ; margins incurved, apex usually rounded, downy on the lower 

 surface when young, ultimately quite smooth on both sides ; stalk 

 one-eighth to one-fourth inch long ; veins in four to six pairs. 

 Flowers solitary, occasionally in pairs, on downy stalks one-fourth 

 inch long, pure white, one-third to one-half inch in diameter ; calyx 

 downy, with broad triangular lobes. Fruit coral red, globose, or 

 rather top shaped, one-fourth inch wide. Native of central China ; 

 found by Henry near Ichang, and introduced in 1900 by Wilson 

 from western Hupeh, where it occurs at 5,000 to 7,000 feet altitude. 

 It is quite hardy and is very distinct among cotoneasters for its 

 perfectly prostrate habit. Its fruits are brightly colored, and the 

 plant will no doubt prove useful as an evergreen carpet shrub ; also 

 for covering sunny slopes, as it is very vigorous. It occurs wild on 

 heaths and rocky ground." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy 

 m the British Isles, vol. 1, p. ill.) 



40164. Cotoneaster divaricata Rehd. and Wilson. 



"A deciduous shrub up to 6 feet high, of spreading habit; young 

 shoots clothed with grayish hairs, becoming the second year smooth 

 and reddish brown. Leaves roundish oval, sometimes ovate or obo- 

 vate, tapered abruptly toward both ends, the apex mucronate; one- 

 third to 1 inch long, one-fourth to five-eighths inch wide, smaller on 

 the dowering shoots ; dark glossy green, and soon smooth above, 

 sparsely hairy beneath; veins in three or four pairs; leafstalk one- 

 twelfth inch or less long. Flowers usually in threes at the end of 

 short twigs, often supplemented by solitary ones in the axils of the 

 terminal leaves, rosy white; calyx lobes triangular; they and the 

 tube loosely woolly. Fruit red, egg shaped, one-third inch long, carry- 

 ing two stones. Native of western Hupeh and western Szechwan, 

 China ; first found by Henry in the latter Province about 18S7 ; intro- 

 duced to the Coombe Wood nursery by Wilson in 1904. It is one of 

 the handsomest in fruit of Chinese cotoneasters and was given 

 a first-class certificate by the R. H. Society in the autumn of 1912. 

 It is allied to the Himalayan C. simonsii." (IV. J. Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. J/09.) 



40165. Cotoneaster foveolata Rehd. and Wilson. 



"A deciduous shrub, 10 to 20 feet high ; young shoots covered with 

 yellowish gray, bristly hairs, becoming smooth and grayish the second 

 year. Leaves oval to ovate, slender pointed, usually wedge shaped, 

 sometimes rounder at the base; 1A to 4 inches long, three-fourths to 

 If inches wide; dull green and soon smooth above, sparsely hairy 

 beneath, more so on the midrib and veins; margins downy, veins in 

 3 to G pairs, the blade often puckered between them; stalk woolly, 

 one-sixth inch or less in length. Corymbs three to seven flowered, 

 on a stalk about one-half inch long, and hairy, like the young wood; 

 flowers one-third inch wide; petals rose-tinted white; calyx tube 

 woolly, the lobes triangular and woolly only on the margins. Fruit 

 red, finally black, roundish, one-fourth to one-third inch wide, carry- 

 ing usually three or four stones. Native of western Hupeh, China; 

 introduced by Wilson in 1908. It has not flowered under cultivation 

 but is growing vigorously." (W.J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy 

 in thp British Isles, vol. 1, p. ^09.) 



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