CHAP. XLH. 



iiOSA CE.^. COTONEA STE15. 



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. GO-t.) Branches brownish purple, with 

 an ash-coloured cuticle, which peels oft". A 

 shrub, flowering in April, and having the 

 same general appearance and habit as C. 

 vulgaris, but differing 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 182G. Its native country is un- 

 known. Plants, in the London nurseries, 

 are 'Zs. 6d. each. 



§ ii. Siibevergreen or deciduous. Tall Shrubs, or low Trees. 



J 4. C. fri'gida JVall. The frigid Cotoneaster. 



Idenlification. Wall, ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1229. ; and Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 

 Sijnunyme. Pyrus Xiissia 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 A'olume. 



Spec. Char., c'j-c. Braiichlets woolly. Leaves elliptical, mucronate, coriaceous, 

 crenulated, glabrous, woolly beneath when young. Corymbs paniculate, 

 terminal, white and woolly. Pomes spherical. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. GS-i.) A 

 native of the higher mountains of the northern region of Nepal, at Gossain- 

 than ; and introduced into England in 182-1-. 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, 2*. Gd. 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 i?osaceaB, § Pomeae. 



i J 5. C. (f.) affiS'is 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. 



p. 603. 

 Synonymes. Mespilus integiJrrima Hamilt. MSS. ; M. afflnis D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., 238. 

 Engraving. Our plate in Vol. II. 



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, diflerent in fohage, 

 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. 



