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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



^ t 6. C. AcuMiNA^TA L'mdl. The acxxmrnnieA-leaved Cotoneaster. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 101. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 603. 

 Synonytne. JV/espilus acumin&.ta Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 919. 



Engravings. Lodd. Bot. Cab., t 919. ; Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. 1 9. ; and the plate of this species in 

 VoL ir. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves ovate, acuminated, rather pilose on both surfaces. 

 Peduncles glabrous, 1 — 2, rather reflexed, shorter than those of C. vulgaris, 

 C. tomentosa, or of C. affi^nis. Calyxes glabrous. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 632.) 

 A native of Nepal ; introduced in 1820, and forming a vigorous-growing, 

 fastigiate, leathery-leaved shrub, or very handsome subevergreen low tree. 

 It flowers in April and May, and the flowers are succeeded by abundance 

 of scarlet fruit, which remain on all the winter. It is a very distinct, and 

 a most desirable, species. Plants, in the London nurseries, are \s. Gd. each ; 

 and at BoUwyller, 1 franc and 50 cents. 

 1 7. C. Ni'MMULA^RiA Lhidl. The money-like-leaved Cotoneaster. 



Identification. Lindl. in Hort. Trans., G. p. 396. 



Derivation. Probably from the roundness of the leaf, resembling the general form of coins. 



Engraving. Our plate in Vol. IL 



Sj)ec. C/iar., i^c. Disk of leaf flat, orbicular, or elliptical, ending in a mucro, 

 in some instances emarginate. Petiole of about the length of the stipules, 

 which are linear-lanceolate, membranous, and soon fall oft'. Bark, buds, 

 flower buds, stipules, petiole, the under surface of the disk of the leaf and 

 part of the upper surface of the midrib, lomentosely hairy, while in a 

 young state; the bark, petioles, midrib on its upper surface, and calyx, be- 

 come glabrous when old. Flowers in axillary cymes, few in a cyme. Style 

 and carpel, which has a bony shell, mostly solitary. Erect, branched in a 

 spreading manner ; branchlets straight, slender. An elegant low tree, a 

 native of the mountain region of Nepal, introduced in 1824, growing about 

 15 ft. high, and producing its white flowers in April and May. 



§ iii. Leaves exm-greeji, leathery. Low Shrubs^ loith prostrate 

 Branches ; Trailers^ but not properly Creepers. 



*k 8. C. rotundifo'lia Wall. The round-leaved Cotoneaster. 



Identification. ^Vall. Cat. ; Lindl. Bot Reg., li-'M. 



Syminijmes. C. niicroph5''lla ^ U\a-Crsi Litull. But. Reg., 1. 1187. ; C. U^va-ursi Hort. ; the Bcar- 



berrj-leavcd Nepal (Cotoneaster. 

 Engravings. BoL Keg., t 1187. ; and our figs. 623. and 624. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves roundish, pi- • 



lose beneath, evergreen. Peduncles 

 ] -flowered. Producing it§ white flow- 

 ers in April and May. (Don's Mill., 

 ii. p. GO-t.) A shrub, growing to the 

 height of 3 ft. or 4 ft.; a native 

 of Gossainthan ; and introduced in 

 1825. Dr. Lindley says that " na- 

 tive specimens have convinced him 

 that this is a distinct species from 

 C2.3 C. microph) 11a" ( Bot. Reg., 1. 1 229.); 



from which it differs, he says, " in being a plant of more vigorous growth ; 

 in having somewhat larger and flatter leaves ; and in bearing flowers more 

 frequently in twos and threes than singly. (Ibid., t. 1 187.) The shoots are 

 rigid, and thickly clothed with leathery evergreen leaves; and the flowers, 

 which are numerous, are succeeded by bright scarlet fruit, which remain 

 on the plant all the year. It is a most desirable shrub for a small garden, 

 for clothing a naked wall, covering rockwork, or gi'afting standard high, 

 so as to form a pendent evergreen tree. Dwarf plants, in the London 

 nurseries, are 2a-. G</. each ; standards, from os. to 7*. The specific name 

 . of rotundifolia is rather unfortunate for this species, C. nummularia hav- 



