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40139 to 40201— Continued. 



Soongaria and other parts of the northwestern borders of China ; 

 introduced in 1S37. This is one of the most elegant of cotoneasters. 

 There is a specimen at Kew with a single well-formed trunk support- 

 ing a crown of pendulous or arching branches; the whole 10 to 12 

 feet high. When the branches are wreathed with the abundant 

 blossom in May and June, this tree makes a most charming picture. 

 The same or a closely allied shrub has recently been introduced by 

 Wilson from western China, but 1,500 or more miles to the southwest 

 of the first habitat." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the 

 British Isles, vol. 1, p. JflS.) 



40169. Cotoneaster pannosa Franchet. 



"An evergreen shrub of free and elegant habit, 10 feet or more 

 high ; branches arching and slender, covered with whitish felt when 

 young. Leaves oval, tapering toward both ends, one-half to 1 inch 

 long, about half as wide; always dull green above, covered with 

 whitish felt beneath; stalk up to one-fourth inch long. Flowers 

 one- fourth to three-eighths inch across, borne in corymbs of as many 

 as 15 or 20; petals white, spreading; calyx woolly. Fruits scarcely 

 one-fourth inch long, dull red. Native of Yunnan, China, up to 9,000 

 feet altitude; raised in Paris in 1SS8, from seed sent there by the 

 Abbe Delavay. Introduced to Kew in 1S92. The differences be- 

 tween this species and C. francheti [S. P. I. No. 4016G] have already 

 been alluded to under that species. Both are characterized by ex- 

 treme elegance of habit and by being very woolly on young bark, 

 flower stalk, calyx, and under surface of leaves; but C. pannosa 

 has duller leaves, is less hairy, when young, on the upper surface, 

 more spreading whiter petals, and shorter, rounder fruits of a deeper 

 red." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 



Vol, 1, p. -'ft'/.) 



40170. COTONEASTER RACEMIFLORA (Desf. ) Koch. 



"A deciduous shrub up to G or 8 feet high, with slender branches, 

 gray felted when young, becoming smooth and reddish brown later. 

 Leaves oval or ovate, sometimes roundish, tapering toward the base, 

 one-half to 1$ inches in length, dark green and ultimately smooth 

 above; gray felted beneath. Flowers white, in clusters of 4 to 12 

 or more on felted stalks. Fruit roundish, bright red. Native of 

 southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, etc. Its identity has been much 

 obscured, owing to a confusion with C. Hndleyi, a taller, more robust 

 shrub with much larger leaves and black fruits, also known as 

 C. nummular ia." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the 

 British Isles, vol. 1, p. 41'/.) 



40171. COTONEASTER DIELSIANA PrltZel. 



"A deciduous shrub, 8 feet, perhaps more, high, with long, ex- 

 tremely slender, arching or quite pendulous branches; brancblets 

 downy when young. Leaves one-half to H inches long, three-eighths 

 to 1 inch wide, ovate; hairy above when young, covered beneath with 

 felt, at first white, afterwards pale brown ; veins prominent. Flowers 

 three to seven in a cluster, terminating side shoots 1 inch or so 

 long; calyx and flower stalk hairy, calyx lobes Shallowly triangular. 

 Fruit scarlet, round or rather pear shaped ; one-quarter inch long. 

 Native of central China; introduced for Messrs. Veitch by Wilson in 



