Cotoneaster.'] LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 387 



acuminate glabrous above sparsely silky beneath, nerves distinct, margins 

 subrecurved, flowers solitary or twin subsessile, fruit turbinate scarlet. C. 

 acuminata, var. Simondsii, Dene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 175. 



KHASIA MTS. ? 



The origin of this is unknown. It is probably named after Mr. Simons who col- 

 lected largely in the Khasia Mts. and who may have sent seeds to England from 

 thence or from Bhotan. It is remarkable that it occurs in no Indian Herbarium, but 

 so would be the fact, that except this be a native of the Khasia, that range should 

 possess no Cotoneaster. It very nearly resembles C. rotundifolia. 



B. Leaves persistent, rigid, in. long ; margins recurved. Flowers almost 

 always solitary. (See also C. nummularia, rotundifolia and Simondsii.) 



9. C. microphylla, Wall. Cat. 662 A. ; a low ramous woody intri- 

 cately branched shrub, leaves in. ovate or obovate acute retuse or obtuse 

 glossy above pubescent or tomentose beneath, margins recurved, flowers in. 

 diam., fruit globose scarlet. Lindl. in Sot. Reg. t. 1114 ; Saunders Refug. Hot. 

 i. t. 49 ; Brandts For. Fl. 209. C. emarginata, Hoffm. according to Decaisne, 

 Mem. Fam. Pom. 176. ? C. buxifolia, Baker in Saunders Refug. Bot. i. t. 52. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 4-8000 ft. from KASHMIR to BHOTAN; var. glacialis 

 from 9-14,000 ft. 



In a dried state it is very difficult to distinguish this from the following, and from 

 single flowered states of C. buxifolia. I suspect that the C. buxifolia of Saunders' 

 Eefugium is a state of this, though it may be a 1-flowered state of buxifolia. 



VAR. glacialis ; leaves glabrous and glaucous beneath, flowers smaller often pink. 

 C. congesta, Baker in Saunders Refug. i. t. 51. 



10. C. thymifolia, Sort.] Baker in Saunders, Refug. Bot. i. t. 60; an 

 almost prostrate woody intricately branched shrub, leaves %-% in. cuneate-ob- 

 ovate or oblong tip rounded or retuse glossy above pubescent or tomentose 

 beneath, margins recurved, flowers solitary ^ in. diam., fruit small globose scar- 

 let. C. microphylla, Wall Cat. 662, B. Gratsegus integrifolia, Herb. Ham. 



Temperate and Alpine Himalaya from KASHMIR, Falconer, to SIKKIM, J. D. H. 



This so resembles certain states of C. microphylla, that I retain it as a species with 

 great doubt ; in habit the two are identical, but C. thymifolia has narrower leaves 

 that are never elliptic or ovate or acute, but always broader upwards and rounded or 

 retuse at the tip ; the flowers are smaller, but this is not a character of much value. 

 It was distributed with true microphylla by "Wallich and with buxifolia by Strachey 

 and Winterbottom from Nynee Tal. 



11. C. buxifolia, Wall. Cat. 661 ; a small rigid intricately branched 

 woody bush, leaves ^ in. elliptic-ovate acute or apiculate dull not shining and 

 often pubescent above densely tomentose beneath, margins recurved, cymes 2-6- 

 flowered tomentose short, fruit globose scarlet. Wight Ic. t. 992 ; Beddome 

 Fl. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. xcvii. 1. 13, f. 3. 0. afnnis, DC. Prodr. ii. 632 (the Nil- 

 ghiri plant}. C. lanata, Hort. ; Regel Oartenft. ix. 59. 



Western Peninsula, NILGHIRI and PULNEY MTS. ? Temperate Himalaya from 

 SIRMORE, alt. 4-7000 ft. to BHOTAN, alt. 10,000 ft., Griffith. 



I have under C. microphylla stated that it is difficult to distinguish dried single- 

 flowered specimens of this from that plant, though in their ordinary states they are 

 very different, C. buxifolia having an opaque and often hoary or hairy upper surface 

 to the leaf, which is more regular in shape, and several-flowered cymes, with smaller 

 flower and fruit. I am in great doubt as to any of the Himalayan specimens referred 

 to tjiis being other than 2-3-flowered states of microphylla. The C. lanata of Lindley 



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