384 LJ. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Oratcegus. 



Styles inserted ventrally, free. Carpels free for nearly of the upper part from 

 one another and the calyx-tube. Fruit green, 5-lobed when dry, in. diam., 

 crowned by the reflexed calyx-lobes ; pyrenes separable, free above, faces rough. The 

 structure of the ovary ancj fruit is essentially the same as in the following species, but 

 the tops of the pyrenes are not so much protruded. 



3. C. crenulata, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 38 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 509 ; glabrous, 

 leaves linear-oblong or obovate crenulate obtuse very coriaceous, fruit globose, 

 carpels 5 free above. Wall Cat. 674 ; Lindl. in Sot. Reg. xxx. t. 52. 0. Pyr- 

 acantha, Srandis For. FL 208. Mespilus crenulata, Don Prodr. 238. Pyra- 

 cantha crenulata, Roem. ; Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 171. 



Temperate Himalaya in dry places from the SIBMOB to BHOTAN (exclusive of 

 Sikkim), alt. 2500-8000 ft. 



A large woody rigid spinescent shrub. Leaves crowded on short lateral branch- 

 lets, 1-2 in., shining, narrowed into the very short petiole ; nerves indistinct. Corymbs 

 short, many-flowered, glabrous or puberulous ; branches slender. Flowers - i in. 

 diam., white ; pedicels slender. Calyx-tube hemispheric ; lobes obtuse. Petals orbi- 

 cular, claw very short. Styles 5, inserted ventrally. Carpels 5, free for i of their 

 upper part from one another and the calyx -tube. Fruit globose, orange-red, crowned 

 with the erect calyx-lobes ; pyrenes separable, faces polished, upper i| free and pro- 

 truded between the calyx-lobes. Differs from the European C. Pyracantha in the 

 obtuse leaves and smaller flowers and fruit. 



25. COTONE ASTER, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves quite entire, coriaceous, usually very downy 

 beneath ; stipules setaceous, deciduous. Flowers small solitary or in axillary 

 or terminal cymes, white or pink, sometimes polygamous. Calyx-tube turbinate 

 or campanulate ; lobes 5, short, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 

 20, inserted at the mouth of the calyx. Carpels 2-5, adnate wholly or by their 

 backs only to the calyx-tube ; styles 2-5, free, stigma truncate ; ovules 2 in 

 each celt, erect, basal, geminate, raphe lateral. Fruit small, ovoid globose or 

 turbinate, with 2-5 bony 1-seeded stones. DISTRIB. Europe, temp. Asia ; N. 

 Africa, Mexico j species 15. 



A genus distinguishable only by habit from Crat&gus. The species are very 

 variable and difficult of discrimination. 



A. Leaves deciduous (subpersistent in nummularia and rotundifolia) j mar- 

 gins not recurved. 



* Leaves 1-4 in. Cymes usually branched and many-lowered. 



1. C. bacillaris, Watt. ; Lindl. in Sot. Reg. under t. 1229; a bush or 

 small tree, leaves 1^3 in. oblong or obovate or oblong-lanceolate woolly or gla- 

 brescent beneath acute or obtuse narrowed into the petiole, cymes short many- 

 flowered puberulous, fruit dark brown globose. Srandis For. Fl. 208 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 660. 0. obtusa, Wall, in Sot. Reg. I. c. ; Cat. 659, in part. 



Temperate Himalaya, from WAZABISTAN, alt. 4-8000ft. ; MTJBBEE and KASHMIB, 

 alt. 4-10,000 ft. to NEPAL, SIKKIM? and BHOTAN?. SALT. BANGE, alt. 1500-2500 ft. 

 (Brandis}, 



A common and variable deciduous Himalayan shrub ; wood much used for walking 

 sticks, whence its specific name. Of Wallich's C. obtusa, I cannot distinguish three of 

 the specimens from bacillaris even as a variety; Lindley's character of "cymes con- 

 gested and branchlets glabrous " in obtuta, and " cymes divaricate and branchlets 

 pilose " in bacillaris, do not distinguish Wallich's var. The other specimens marked 



