140 ROSACEA. 



is the whole plant except the inflorescence. Blades quite 

 entire, ovate, oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, abruptly- 

 acuminate : midrib stout, nerves slender about ^ inch 

 apart, joined by a close net-work of veins. Panicles 

 terminal, rounded, excessively branched; the branches 

 greenish white pubescent, becoming stout in fruit. 

 Flowers sessile, sepals minute, rounded, white or tinged 

 with pink. Petals 1/16 inch, rounded, white. Stamens 

 about four times as many, in four whorls : filaments white; 

 those of the two outer whorls spreading as long as the 

 petals, those of the inner shorter and erect. Ovary two- 

 celled, the crown hemispheric, reddish, pubescent. Fruit 

 a round purple berry 1/5 inch diameter, quite smooth with 

 a small five-lobed depression ; flesh very acid. Seeds 

 brown % by 1/16 inch, elliptic, with short blunt point at 

 the upper end, bent to one side. Wight Ic. t. 991, 111. t. 86. 



The habit of the young shoots which grow often to 4 or 5 feet above the 

 rest remind one of the Apple and Pear, near relatives of this genus. In 

 September the trees often show tall irregular masses of erect bright purplish 

 red leaves, as if on stumps denuded of their smaller branches. The fruit 

 reminds one of the Rowan or Mountain Ash. 



On the outskirts of sholas on the Nilgiri and Pulney downs 

 6 500 feet and above. Flowers September in profusion of white 

 blossom. 



Fyson 11 19, 11 24, 2004, 2609, 3024. Bourne- 12Z, 1383, 



2598. 



COTONEASTER. f.b.i. 51 xxv. 



Shrubs or small trees with entire leathery leaves, often 

 downy on the backs ; and axillary or terminal cymes of 

 small flowers, with five sepals on a top-shaped calyx tube, 

 five petals, about twenty stamens, an ovary of two to five 

 cells, and a small fruit with two to five hard one-seeded 

 stones. 



Species 20 to 30, difficult to distinguish, scattered over 

 Asia, Europe and North America. One or two are commonly 

 cultivated in English gardens for the brightly coloured fruits 

 which remain on through the early winter. 



