80 SEEDS AND PLANTS 1MPOKTED. 



40139 to 40201— Continued. 



40166. COTONEASTER FRANCHETI BoiS. 



"An evergreen shrub, 8 to 10 feet high, with slender, gracefully 

 arching branches, which the first year are covered with a dense, pale 

 brown wool. Leaves oval, tapering toward both ends, from three- 

 fourths to 1^ inches long, about half as wide, pointed ; upper sur- 

 face rather hairy when young, lustrous green later, lower surface 

 covered with a thick, whitish, afterwards pale-brown felt ; stalk one- 

 eighth inch or less long. Flowers borne in corymbs of 5 to 15 flowers, 

 terminating short, lateral, leafy twigs ; petals erect, white, touched 

 with rose on the outside; calyx felted like the under surface of the 

 leaves. Fruit oblong, one-fourth to one-third inch long; orange 

 scarlet. Native of Tibet and western China ; first raised in France 

 about 1895. by Mr. Maurice de Vilmorin, from seed sent by the Abbe 

 Soulie. It is a shrub of very elegant growth, whose fruits are freely 

 borne, but lose in brilliancy by the grayish down, more or less dense, 

 which covers them. It was first confused with C. pannosa; the dis- 

 tinguishing characters may be defined as follows : Leaves rather 

 longer than in pannosa, but with stalks scarcely half as long, the 

 upper surface somewhat lustrous ; flowers not so numerous in each 

 cluster, petals erect and rose tinted ; fruits larger, longer, and not of 

 so deep a red. It flowers in May, and the fruit is ripe in October." 

 (W. J. Bean, Trees and Slwubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, 

 p. 409.) 



40167. Cotoneaster henryana (Schneid.) Relul. and Wilson. 

 "An evergreen shrub, 10 to 12 feet high, of sparse habit; the 



branches gracefully pendulous; young shoots hairy, becoming the 

 second year smooth, and of a dark purplish brown. Leaves 2 to 4* 

 inches long, about one-third as wide, narrowly oval or obovate, finely 

 pointed, dark green, and somewhat rough to the touch above; cov- 

 ered beneath when young with a grayish wool which mostly falls 

 away by the second season, that which remains becoming brown and 

 confined to the midrib and veins, the under surface still remaining 

 brownish white; veins in 9 to 12 pairs; stalk one-fourth to one-half 

 inch long, hairy. Flowers white, produced about the middle of June 

 in corymbs 2 to 2A inches across, terminating leafy twigs less than 

 1 inch long, that spring from the axils of the still-persisting leaves 

 of the previous year; stamens 20, with purple anthers; calyx and 

 flower stalks hairy. Fruit brownish crimson, egg shaped, one-fourth 

 inch long. Native of central China ; introduced by Wilson in 1901. A 

 handsome and distinct evergreen, and probably the largest leaved of 

 cotoneasters with persistent leaves. Allied to C. salicifolia." ( W. -1. 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. .'ilO.) 



40168. Cotoneaster multiflora Bunge. 



"A deciduous shrub or small tree, 10 to 12 feet high; branches 

 slender, pendulous, or arching, and smooth except when quite young. 

 Leaves thin in texture, varying in shape from ovate and oval to 

 roundish, three-fourths to 2i inches long, one-half to 1A inches 

 wide; usually blunt or rounded at the end; hairy when quite young, 

 but soon becoming smooth above; pale and often smooth, never per- 

 manently woolly beneath; stalk one-fourth to one-half inch long. 

 Flowers white, produced in branching clusters of 3 to 12 or more, 

 not pleasantly scented. Fruit round or pear shaped, red. Native of 



