Gotoneaster.] LI. ROSACEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 385 



as obtusa are the C. affinis of Lindley and differ only in the tomentose under surface 

 of the leaves and corymbs, which in this respect present every intermediate with 

 bacillaris ; its leaves are however often smaller rounder and sometimes rounded at the 

 base (C. rosea, Edgw.). I am somewhat doubtful of the Sikkim and Bhqtan plants here 

 referred to bacillaris. I do not remember a black or dark brown fruited large shrubby 

 species in Sikkim, and Griffith's Bhotan specimens are in flower only ; one of these 

 has leaves under 1 in. long. The Sikkim specimens doubtfully referred here have the 

 leaves of affinis and a young shoot has them sometimes almost orbicular, rounded at 

 the base (as in rosea) and 2 in. diam. Except* by the dark berries it is difficult to 

 distinguish var. affinis from C. frigida. 



VAR. affinis ; leaves beneath petioles young shoots and inflorescence more or less 

 woolly or tomentose. C. affinis, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 101 ; Bot. Reg. 

 under 1. 1229. C. obtusa, Wall. Cat. 659, in part. C. rosea, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. 46. Mespilus affinis, Don Prodr. 238. 



VA.R.parvifolia ; leaves ^-1 in. elliptic acute or obtuse, cymes short dense-flowered, 

 flowers smaller. Bhotan, Griffith, alt. 7000 ft. 



2. C. frig- Ida, Wall. Cat. 657 ; a large bush or small tree, leaves 3-5 in. 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute narrowed to the base young tomentose beneath, 

 cvrnes very many-flowered woolly, fruit globose scarlet. Lindl. in Bot. Req. 

 t." 1229. ? C. affinis, Hohen. Plant. Exsicc. Nilg. No. 1575. C. nepalensis, 

 Hort. 



Central and Eastern Himalaya; NIPAL, Wallich, interior of SIKKIM, alt. 

 7-9000 ft, J. D. H. 



A tree, 20 ft. high, or large bush, deciduous, similar in habit and foliage to C. ba- 

 cillaris, but with far more numerous flowers in a cyme and scarlet berries. Ho- 

 heuacker's Nilgiri specimens, which I take to beffigicut, are from a tree cultivated in 

 Lord Elphinstone's garden at Kaitee. Decaisne quotes Jacquemont as having found 

 this, but I suspect that C. bacillaris var. affinis is the plant intended, as C. frigida 

 occurs nowhere in Jacquemont's region of travel. 



** Leaves ^-2 (rarely 4-5) in. Cymes few-flowered orflowei's solitary. 



3. C. acuminata, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. SM. xiii. 101, t. 9 ; an erect 

 shrub, twi^s leaves beneath and inflorescence pubescent or tomentose, leaves 

 usually 1-2 in. ovate acuminate or acute at length glabrous beneath, cymes 1-5- 

 flowered very short, fruit turbinate scarlet. Brandts For. Fl. 209. R. 

 Roylei or. Royleana, Hort. C. rotundifolia, Herb. Str. $ Wint., not of Wallich. 

 Mespilus acuminata, Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 919. 



Temperate Himalaya, from SIRMOR and KTJMAON, alt. 4500-12,000 ft., to SIKKIM, 

 alt. 7-13,000 ft. 



A deciduous shrub, sometimes 14 ft. high ; wood used for walking sticks (like 

 bacillaris'), the most constant in form of foliage of any Indian species except Si- 

 mondsii, also in their size, about 2 in., though in one of Wallich' s specimens they ex- 

 ceed 5 in. ! The fruit varies from turbinate to subcampanulate. The number of 

 flowers in a cyme varies extremely, Brandis says from 2-10, I find 2-5 the average, 

 but solitary flowers are not uncommon. 



4. C. vulg-aris, Lindl. ; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 685 ; an erect bush, leaves 

 f-l rarely 2 in. broadly ovate acute or obtuse hoary or glabrous above softly 

 tomentose beneath, cymes short few-flowered glabrescent, fruit globose black or 

 red. 



WESTERN TIBET and WAZURISTAN, alt. 5-11,000 ft. DISTRIB. Siberia, Soongaria, 

 Persia Westward to the Atlantic. 



Usually a slender erect deciduous shrub, varying much in form of foliage and pu- 

 bescence of both surfaces ; its habit, more ovate leaves, and fewe. r flowered cymes, best 

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