COTONEASTER 409 



Wilson in 1904. It is one of the handsomest in fruit of Chinese Cotoneasters, 

 and was given a first-class certificate by the R. H. Society in the autumn of 

 1912. It is allied to the Himalayan C. Simonsii. 



C. FOVEOLATA, Rehder and Wilson. 



A deciduous shrub, 10 to 20 ft. high ; young shoots covered with yellowish 

 grey, bristly hairs, becoming smooth and greyish the second year. Leaves 

 oval to ovate, slender-pointed, usually wedge-shaped (sometimes rounded) at 

 the base ; i^ to 4 ins. long, f to if ins. wide ; dull green and soon smooth 

 above, sparsely hairy beneath, more so on the midrib and veins ; margins 

 downy ; veins in three to six pairs, the blade often puckered between them ; 

 stalk woolly, \ in. or less in length. Corymbs three- to seven-flowered, on a 

 stalk about \ in. long, and hairy like the young wood ; flowers \ in. wide ; 

 petals rose-tinted white ; calyx tube woolly, the lobes triangular and woolly 

 only on the margins. Fruit red, finally black, roundish, J to \ in. wide, 

 carrying usually three or four stones. 



Native of W. Hupeh, China ; introduced by Wilson in 1908. It has not 

 flowered under cultivation, but is growing vigorously. 



Closely allied to both this species and C. bullata is 



C. MOUPINENSIS, Franchet^ but it is quite distinct from the latter in its 

 jet black fruits, which are about \ in. diameter, globose, containing usually 

 four or five stones, and in its less wrinkled leaves. From C. foveolata it differs 

 " in its thicker, more rugose leaves, the many-flowered inflorescence, glabrescent 

 calyx, and in the narrower stones, which have only a shallow furrow on the 

 dorsal side" (Rehder and Wilson). According to Wilson, it is the common 

 Cotoneaster in thickets and woods in W. Szechuen, China. Introduced to 

 Kew in 1907, from Mr Maurice de Vilmorin at Les Barres. 



C. FRANCHETI, Bois. 



An evergreen shrub, 8 to 10 ft. high, with slender, gracefully arching 

 branches, which the first year are covered with a dense, pale brown wool. 

 Leaves oval, tapering towards both ends, from f to ij ins. long, about half as 

 wide, pointed ; upper surface rather hairy when young, lustrous green later, 

 lower surface covered with a thick, whitish, afterwards pale brown felt ; stalk 

 \ in. or less long. Flowers borne in corymbs of five to fifteen flowers 

 terminating short, lateral, leafy twigs ; petals erect, white, touched with rose 

 on the outside ; calyx felted like the under-surface of the leaves. Fruit oblong, 

 \ to \ in. long ; orange-scarlet. 



Native of Thibet and W. China ; first raised in France about 1895, by 

 Mr Maurice de Vilmorin, from seed sent by the Abbe Soulie. It is a shrub of 

 very elegant growth, whose fruits are freely borne, but lose in brilliancy by the 

 greyish down, more or less dense, which covers them. It was at first confused 

 with C. pannosa ; the distinguishing characters may be defined as follows : 

 Leaves rather longer than in pannosa, but with stalks scarcely half as long, 

 the upper surface somewhat lustrous ; flowers not so numerous in each cluster, 



Setals erect and rose-tinted ; fruits larger, longer, and not of so deep a red. It 

 owers in May, and the fruit is ripe in October. 



C. FRIGIDA, Wallich. 

 (Bot. Reg., t. 1229.) 



A large, rounded, deciduous shrub, 15 to 20 ft. high, or a. small tree; 

 branchlets at first covered with pale down, becoming smooth. Leaves 3 to 5 

 ins. long, i to 2 ins. wide j narrowly oval or obovate, deep dull green and 



