Stranvcesia.'] LI. EOSACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 383 



in Linnaa, 1874, 204. S. glaucescens and S. Nussia, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 

 178. Cratsegus glauca, Wall. Cat. 673. Pyrus Nussia, Ham. in Don Prodr. 

 237. Cotoneaster affinis, Lindl in Wall Cat. 658. 



Western and Central Himalaya ; KJTMAON, alt. 3-7500 ft. NIPAL, Wallich. KHASIA 

 Mxs., alt. 4-5000 ft. 



A small leafy evergreen tree, very variable in foliage, young parts tomentose in a 

 very early state. Leaves in Western specimens often 6 in. long and 2-2^ broad, more 

 obovate than is usual in the Eastern, hardly shining above, paler beneath ; in Khasian 

 specimens the leaves are sometimes 4 by ^-f in., long-acuminate and curved (var. an- 

 gustifolia, Dene.), always narrowing into the petiole ; nerves very slender ; petiole 

 i | in. Corymbs 2-4 in. broad ; branches slender, hairy or glabrate. Flowers pedi- 

 celled, in. diam., pedicels woolly. Calyx woolly; lobes acute, persistent. Petals 

 spreading, usually notched, not oblique. Ovary small ; crown hardly raised, hairy. 

 Style-column woolly below. Fruit | in. diam., orange yellow-, crowned with the in- 

 curved calyx-teeth ; flesh thin ; crown of the crustaceous carpels exserted, glabrous. 



24. CRATJEGUS, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, often spiny. Leaves simple lobed or pinnatifid ; sti- 

 pules deciduous. Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes, white or red ; bracts 

 caducous. Calyx-tube urceolate or canipanulate ; mouth contracted ; lobes 5, 

 persistent or deciduous. Petals 5, inserted at the mouth of the calyx, imbricate 

 in bud. Stamens many. Carpels 1-5, adnate to the calyx-tube ; styles 1-5 ; 

 stigma truncate ; ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. Fruit ovoid or globose, 

 with a bony 1-5-celled stone, or with 1-5 bony 1- rarely 2-seeded stones. Dis- 

 TKIB. N. temp, regions, chiefly American, extending south into New Granada ; 

 species about 50. 



1. C. Oxyacantha, Linn. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 88 ; leaves cuneate or 

 triangular-ovate with a cuneate base pinnatifidly 3-5-lobed rarely pinnate sinus 

 acute, lobes sharply toothed towards the tip, fruit glabrous ovoid, carpels 1-3 

 wholly adnate to the calyx-tube. Brandis For. Fl. 207. 0. ribesius, Bertol. 

 Miscel. Sot. xxii. 14, t. 2. (Hawthorn). 



Western temperate Himalaya, from MTTRREE to KISHTWAR, alt. 6-9000 ft. Dis 

 TRIE. Affghanistan and westward to the \tlantic, W. Siberia. 



A small tree, 20-30 ft., trunk short, branches spinescent ; young shoots and 

 leaves beneath and inflorescence sparsely softly pubescent or glabrate. Leaves 1-2 in. ; 

 petiole very slender ; stipules leafy, upper usually falcate, serrate, lower larger or- 

 bicular and cut. Corymbs many-flowered. Flowers % in. diam., white, odorous. 

 Calyx-lobes subacute. Petals orbicular. Styles 1 or 2, slender, glabrous. Carpels 

 adnate by their whole length to the calyx-tube, tips pubescent. Fruit scarlet, flesh 

 scanty ; endocarp of 2-3 bony pyrenes more or less firmly united. Boissier regards 

 the Himalayan plant as C. monogyna (itself a var. of Oxyacantha) but there are com- 

 monly 2 and often 3 styles and carpels. 



2. C. Clarkei, Hook.f. ; softly tomentose, leaves oblong pinnate or pin- 

 natifid, base cuneate or truncate, segments oblong toothed at the broad tip, fruit 

 pubescent globose, carpels 5, free above. 



KASHMIR, at Hirpoor, alt. 8000 ft., Thomson, C. B. Clarke. 



Pubescence soft, white, spreading. Leaves 2-4 in., opaque above, lower segments 

 often free obovate and spreading, tips rounded or acute ; petiole slender ; stipules 

 very large, semicircular and falcate, toothed, Flowers apparently smaller than 

 in C. Oxyacantha and fewer in the corymb, which is clothed with spreading hairs. 

 Calyx-lobes persistent, obtuse. Petals (from fruiting specimen) orbicular-obovate. 



