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COTONE ASTER* frigida. 

 Mountain Cotoneaster. 



ICOSANDRIA DI.PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Pomace^e. Lindley Synops. p. 103. Rosacearum. Sectio 

 Juss. Decnnd. 



COTONEASTER Medicus. Lmdl. in Linn, trans. 13. p. 101.— 

 Flores saepius polygami. Calyx turbinatus, obtus^ 5-rlentatus. Petala 

 brevia, erecta v. patentia. Stamina dentium longitudine. Styli glabri, 



staminibus breviores. Nuces parietales, calyce inclusae. Arbusculae 



{Europce et Indies). Folia simplicia, integerrima, infra pilis obsita. Cymse 

 laterales, patentes. Bractese subulatce, deciduce. Petala parva, diu per- 

 sistentia. 



C. frigida ; cymis multifloris lanuginosis, foliis ovali-lanceolatis subtCis 



tomentosis cleciduis, caule arboreo. 

 C. frigida. Wallich MSS. 



Arbor mediocris, ramis patentibus, subsimplicibus, cinereo-purpureis, 

 cortice trimci Jisso. Folia ovali-lanceolata, mucromdata, decidua, suprd 

 glabra, subtus, ramulisque novellis, tomentosa. Cymi terminales, multiflori, 

 lanuginosi. Calyces lanuginosi, 5-dentati ; petala alba, subrotunda, pa- 

 tentia. Styli ef ouarfa 2. Poma pisifo7-mia, rubra ; nuces 2, monospermce. 



For the discovery of this very fine new species of Cotoneaster 

 the world is indebted to Dr. Wallich, by whose plant-collectors it 

 was brought from the mountains of that northern region of Nipal 

 called Gossain Than. With us it forms a small but very hand- 

 some deciduous tree, snow-white with blossom during April and 

 May, and crimsoned with bunches of bright-red haws in the months 

 of September and October. 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society, in which is a fine plant, raised from seeds received from 

 the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company. It 

 is perfectly hardy, and may be increased abundantly by grafting upon 

 the Whitethorn stock. 



When we published, some years since, a revision of the genera of 



* Derived from Cotonea (mains), the old name of the Quince ; and aster, 

 a corruption of ad instar, similar. The genus, and this species in particular, 

 is not unlike the Quince. 



