386 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gotoneaster. 



distinguish it from C. nummularia. In lax specimens the cymes have slender pedun- 

 cles and pedicels and drooping flowers. The character of drooping fruit by which it 

 has been sought to distinguish these two species depends on the length of the pe- 

 duncle. Fruit very variable in size and colour. Specimens apparently of C. vulgaris, 

 from Bargil, Kashmir, alt. 1 0,500 ft. collected by Mr. C. B. Clarke have leaves 2 in. long. 



5. C. multiflora, Bunge ; Led. FL Ross. ii. 93 ; an erect slender bush, 

 leaves f-2in. ovate elliptic or obovate acute obtuse or rounded at the tip thin 

 glabrous above, glaucous and glabrous or faintly silky beneath, petiole slender, 

 cymes 3-10-fid on short or long peduncles nearly glabrous. Dene. Mem. Fam. 

 Pom. 174. Cotoneaster 6, Herb. Strach. $ Wint. 



KASHMIR, Jacquemont ; NITI PASS KUMAON, alt. 11,500 ft. Strack. <$[ Winterb. 

 DISTHIB. Altai, Persia, Soongaria. 



I refer the Grarwhal plant to Bunge's multiflora with some hesitation ; it closely 

 resembles the Altai and Soongaria plant in its thin pale leaves glaucous beneath, but 

 they are usually ovate and acute whereas in the Altai and Soongarian ones they are 

 orbicular obovate or obcordate ; there are however leaves on some specimens of the 

 Himalayan plant quite like those of the other in being broadly elliptic and rounded 

 at both ends, and Baikal specimens have all the leaves ovate acute. I have seen but 

 few Indian specimens. 



6. C. nummularia, Fisch. $ Mey. ; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 666 ; a 

 straggling or prostrate bush with woody often divaricate branches, leaves 

 -! in. orbicular or obovate obtuse or retuse or apiculate white or densely silkily 

 woolly beneath, cymes woolly very short 2-5-flowered, flowers crowded, fruit 

 small obovoid globose black. Brandis For. FL 209. 0. Lindleyi, Steud. ; 

 Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 176. 



WESTERN TIBET and KASHMIR, alt. 6-1 1,000 ft. DISTRIB. Soongaria, Affghanis- 

 tan and Westward to Asia Minor. 



A smaller subevergreen, more woody rigid species than C. vulgaris, with smaller 

 leaves sometimes only \ in. long, never ovate and often orbicular. Flowers small ; 

 calyx usually tomentose but sometimes glabrate ; fruit black, erect. Cultivated spe- 

 cimens have orbicular leaves nearly 1 in. diam., and almost glabrous beneath. I do 

 not know upon what grounds Steudel and Decaisne regard the nummularia of Loudon 

 which appears to me to be the true plant, as different from that of Fischer. 



7. C. rotundifolia, Wall. Cat. 663 ; a low rigid horizontally and dis- 

 tichously branched shrub, leaves ^-|in. distichous orbicular or orbicular-obovate 

 mucronate glabrous or sparsely hairy above and beneath, flowers solitary subses- 

 sile, fruit turbinate scarlet. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under t. 1229 ; Saunders Refug. 

 Bot. i. t. 54. 0. microphylla, var. uva-ursi, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1187. 0. 

 prostrata, Baker in Saunders Refug. Bot. i. t. 53. 



Central and Eastern Himalaya, alt. 9-11,000 ft. ; from NIPAL, W allich, to SIKKIM, 

 J. D. H., &c., and BHOTAK, Griffith. 



A rigid shrub, remarkable for its almost horizontal branches and regular small 

 orbicular mucronate leaves, which are not woolly or downy, but have sparse appressed 

 hairs, they are very coriaceous, often a little recurved, and are subpersistent in Eng- 

 land ; but as in Wallich's specimens they are all but fallen off, this character probably 

 depends on the severity of the winter. Decaisne (Mem. Fam. Pom. 176) refers to 

 this C. nepalensw, alpina emdRoylei of gardens, but our Roylei is certainly C. acu- 

 minata. Baker's C. prostrata from Saunders' garden is identical with specimens of 

 rotundifolia from the Hort. Soc. Gardens in Herb. Bentham, and has the peculiar ap- 

 pressed hairs of the twigs and under surface of the leaves of rotundifolia, from 

 which I cannot distinguish it. 



8. C. Simondsii, Hort. ; Baker in Saunders Refug. Bot i. t. 55 ; an 

 erect bush with slender branches, leaves f in. subdistichous rhombic-orbicular 



