Cotoncaster.] XXXII. ROSACEA. 209 



A large deciduous shrub or small tree, with ovate or obovate-oblong 

 leaves, 1-3 in. long, entire, soft-pubescent or tomentose beneath ; stipules 

 subulate, early caducous. Flowers white, J in. across, in pedunculate, 

 spreading, compound, many-flowered cymes, at the end of short leaf-bear- 

 ing branchlets. Fruit numerous, sub-globose, dark brown, on slender 

 pedicels, in large spreading bunches. 



Waziristan, 4000-8300 ft. ; Salt range, 1500-2500 ft. ; N.W. Himalaya, from 

 Indus to the Sarda. at 5000-10,000 ft. Sikkim, Bhutan. Fl. May, June. Wood 

 white, strong, elastic ; used for walking-sticks in the N.W. Himalaya. Hardy 

 in England. 



Cfrigida, Wall. ; Bot. Keg. 1. 1229, with oblong-lanceolate leaves and bright 

 scarlet fruit. Nepal, Sikkim. Is nearly allied to this sp., and perhaps not 

 specifically distinct. 



2. C. acuminata, Lindl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. t. 9, p. 101. Vern. 

 Riu, rduns, ruinsh. 



A deciduous shrub, with fasciculate, ovate-lanceolate, subcoriaceous 

 leaves, entire, 1-2 in. long ; extremities and young leaves with soft silky 

 hairs. Stipules subulate, ciliate. Flowers white, \ in. across, in compact 

 cymes with 2-10 flowers, at the end of short leaf-bearing branchlets. 

 Calyx turbinate, glabrous or with long white soft hairs ; segments short, 

 rounded or acute, often fringed with soft white hairs. Fruit subcylin- 

 drical or turbinate, thicker at top, \ in. long (red when ripe, cult, at Kew). 



Himalaya, Bias to Sikkim, 4500-10,000 ft. Fl. May-July. Wood white ; 

 walking-sticks are made of it on the Deoban range, in Jaonsar Bawur, and ex- 

 ported to the plains. Hardy in England. 



3. C. nummularia, Fisch. et Meyer ; Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 666. 



A shrub or small tree, nearly evergreen, with obovate, rotundate, or 

 broad-elliptic leaves, |-1 in. long, obtuse, retuse, or mucronate, densely 

 clothed beneath with white woolly tomentum. Flowers white or pink, 

 \ in. across, in short, nearly sessile, few-flowered cymes at the end of 

 short leaf-bearing branchlets. Calyx and pedicels densely white tomen- 

 tose. Fruit black. 



Afghanistan, Beluchistan, N.W. Himalaya from the Indus to Bhutan, 6000- 

 11,000 ft. Also on the Caucasus, in the Crimea, Armenia, and Syria. Fl. April, 

 May. Hardy in England. 



A sp. of Cotoneaster, with glabrous calyx, larger flowers in pedunculate 

 cymes, pubescent pedicels, is found in Hazara, Kashmir, and the arid tracts of 

 the inner Himalaya (Piti, Lahoul), and is probably the same as the common 

 European species, C. vulgaris, Lindl., Hook. Stud. Fl. 127, which is also known 

 from Siberia and Tibet. The fruit of the European shrub is red, rarely black. 



4. O. microphylla, Wall.; Bot. Reg. t. 1114. Vern. Khariz, liini, 

 Kashmir ; Garri, Kamaon. 



An erect or prostrate evergreen shrub, with small, coriaceous, glossy 

 dark-green, obovate or cuneate-oblong leaves, solitary, large, snow-white 

 flowers, nearly \ in. across, and scarlet fruit. 



Common in the Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan, 5000-11,000 ft. Fl. May, 

 June. Used in Kashmir for making baskets. The ripe fruit is sweet. (J. L. S.) 







