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C. ADPRESSA, Bois. 



A very dwarf, close-growing, rigidly branched, deciduous shrub, scarcely 

 more than i or li ft. high, but spreading over the ground several yards in 

 extent ; the branches pressing on the soil and taking root there ; twigs downy. 

 Leaves in two opposite rows or irregularly arranged, broadly ovate or obovate, 

 to f in. long, dullish green and smooth on both sides, except for a few 

 scattered hairs beneath, wavy-margined and somewhat scoop-shaped. Flowers 

 solitary, scarcely stalked, each one produced in the centre of a fascicle of 

 leaves from the year-old wood ; petals white tipped with rose, but little 

 expanded. Fruit in. long, roundish, bright red. 



Native of China ; introduced to France about 1895 ; first raised and grown 

 by Mr Maurice de Vilmorin at Les Barres (Loiret), where the original plant, 

 when I saw it a few years ago, was 9 ft. across. It is remarkable for its 

 short, rigid branches, and close, prostrate habit. It resembles C. horizontalis, 

 and by some writers is regarded as a variety of that species, but in general 

 appearance and habit is quite distinct from that or any other species. It is 

 a very pleasing plant for the rock garden, or a narrow border of choice shrubs. 



C. AFFINIS, Lindley. 



The identity of this species is somewhat confused, but what is usually 

 grown under the name is an ally of C. bacillaris and C. frigida. It has the 

 woolly young leaves, young wood, and -flower-stalks of the latter, but the purplish 

 brown fruit of C. bacillaris. It is a shrub 10 to 15 ft. high, and deciduous. 

 Leaves oval, acute or bluntish at the apex, up to 3^ ins. long. Native of the 

 Himalaya ; introduced in 1828. 



C. AMGENA, Wilson. 

 (Gardeners' Chronicle, Jan. 6, 1912, fig. I.) 



A densely branched, stiff-habited, evergreen bush of spreading habit, 3 to 5 

 ft. high ; young shoots slender but rigid, felted with grey wool. Leaves oval 

 or ovate, tapered about equally to both ends, terminated by a fine point ; 

 \ to | in. long, to f in. wide ; glossy green and with loose hairs above, 

 clothed beneath with a thick, greyish wool ; veins in two to four pairs ; stalks 

 ^ to \ in. long. Flowers white, \ in. wide, borne in six- to ten-flowered 

 corymbs ; petals roundish ; stamens twenty ; calyx woolly, with triangular- 

 ovate teeth. Fruit bright red, roundish obovoid (broadest above the middle), 

 3- in. long, packed in umbel-like clusters at the end of short twigs that have 

 sprung from the growths of the previous year. 



Native of Yunnan, China ; introduced by Wilson about 1904 to the Coombe 

 Wood nursery. It is most closely allied to C. Francheti among older species, 

 but is dwarfer and stiffer in habit, the leaves smaller, the berries a richer red, 

 especially on the exposed side. 



C. BACILLARIS, Wallich. 



A deciduous shrub, 15 ft. or more high, said to be found also as a small 

 tree, of very graceful habit. Branches arching and often pendulous towards 

 the end, the whole forming a wide-spreading mass more in diameter than in 

 height ; twigs smooth, or slightly downy. Leaves I to 3 ins. long, one-third 

 to half as wide, of variable shape, usually oval, ovate, or slightly obovate, 

 pointed, smooth or becoming so ; stalk \ to in. long. Flowers white, \ in. 

 across, borne numerously in cymose clusters i to 2 ins. across, at the end 

 of short axillary branches. Fruit roundish, in. or less diameter, purplish 

 brown or nearly black. 



