CHAP. XLII. ROSA‘CEE. COTONEA/STER. 871 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong, obtuse at both < 
ends, smooth above, and woolly beneath. “ 
Cymes panicled, pilose. | Calyxes quite 
smooth. Flowers pink. (Don’s Mill. ii. 
p. 604.) Branches brownish purple, with 
an ash-coloured cuticle, which peels off. A 
shrub, flowering in April, and having the 
same general appearance and habit as C. 
vulgaris, but diftering from it in having large 
loose racemes, and in the colour of its flow- 
ers, and their greater number. It was raised 
in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
from seeds sent by Professor Jacquin of 
Vienna, in 1826. Its native country is un- 
known. Plants, in the London nurseries, 
are 2s. 6d. each. 
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§ ii. Subevergreen or deciduous. Tall Shrubs, or low Trees. 
£4. C. rri’cipa Wall. The frigid Cotoneaster. 
Identification. Wall. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1229.; and Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonyme. Pyrus Nissia Ham. in Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 237., Dec, Prod., 2. p. 634. 
Engravings. Bot, Reg., t. 1229,; and the plate of this species in our Second Volume, 
Spec. Char., §c. Branchlets woolly. Leaves elliptical, mucronate, coriaceous, 
crenulated, glabrous, woolly beneath when young. Corymbs paniculate, 
terminal, white and woolly. Pomes spherical. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 634.) A 
native of the higher mountains of the northern region of Nepal, at Gossain- 
than; and introduced into England in 1824. It is a remarkably robust- 
growing, subevergreen, low tree, producing shoots 3 ft. or 4 ft. long every 
season, when young; and, in 3 or 4 years from the seed, becoming very 
prolific in flowers and fruit. “ Snow white with blossoms,” Dr. Lindley says, 
“during April and May, and crimsoned with bunches of bright red haws 
in September and October.” (Bot. Reg., t. 1229.) As the fruit, with the 
greater part of the leaves, remain on all the winter, the tree makes a 
splendid appearance at that season; and, in sheltered situations, in the 
neighbourhood of London, it may be considered as an evergreen. It 
is very hardy ; the specific name of frigida being given to it on account of 
the coldness of the locality in which it was found. It is propagated by 
grafting on the common hawthorn. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost, 
at present, 2s. 6d. each; but, from the facility with which they may be 
raised from seeds, or by grafting, whenever there is a demand for them, 
they will, no doubt, fall to the usual price of grafted Rosacez, § Pomez. 
¥ 25. C.(#.) arri'nis Lindl. The related (to C. frigida) Cotoneaster. 
Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p.101.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632.; and Don’s Mill., 2. 
Sinan ee Mespilus integérrima Hamilt. MSS.; M. affinis D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., 238. 
Engraving. Our plate in Vol, IL. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, with a small mucro at the tip, and tapered 
at the base. Peduncles and calyxes woolly. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 632.) A 
native of Chittong, a town of Lower Nepal; introduced in 1828, and 
forming a robust shrub, or low tree, in general habit and appearance so 
like the preceding sort, as to induce us to think that they are only dif- 
ferent forms of the same species. They are, however, different in foliage, 
and on that account worth keeping distinct. In the arboretum of the 
Messrs. Loddiges there is a plant under the name of C. kumana, which, 
from the shape of the leaf, and general appearance of the plant, may pos- 
sibly be a variety of this species. As, however, it has not yet flowered in 
this country, we are unable to state anything certain respecting it. 
