414 COTONEASTER 



Native of S.E. Europe, Asia Minor, etc. Its identity has been much 

 obscured- owing to a confusion with C. Lindleyi a taller, more robust shrub 

 with much larger leaves and black fruits, also known as C. nummularia. 



C. PANNOSA, Franchet. 



An evergreen ^h rub of free and elegant habit, 10 ft. or more high ; branches 

 arching and slender, covered with whitish felt when young. Leaves oval, 

 tapering towards both ends, \ to I in. long, about half as wide ; always dull 

 green above, covered with whitish felt beneath ; stalk up to j in. long. 

 Flowers J to f in. across, borne in corymbs of as many as fifteen or twenty ; 

 petals white, spreading ; calyx woolly. Fruits scarcely in. long, dull red. 



Native of Yunnan, China, up to 9000 ft. altitude ; raised in Paris in 1888, 

 from seed sent there by the Abbe Delavay. Introduced to Kew in 1892. The 

 differences between this species and C. Francheti have already been alluded 

 to under that species. Both are characterised by extreme elegance of habit, 

 and by being very woolly on young bark, flower-stalk, calyx, and under-surface 

 of leaves ; but C. pannosa has duller leaves, less hairy when young on the 

 upper surface, more spreading whiter petals, and shorter, rounder fruits of a 

 deeper red. 



C. ROTUNDIFOLIA, Wallich. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8010 ; C. disticha, Zange.") 



A semi-evergreen or deciduous shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high, with stiff branches 

 often arranged in two opposite rows ; branchlets downy. Leaves usually in 

 two rows, dark glossy green, |- to ^ in. long, roundish, broadly ovate or oval, 

 with a short, abrupt point ; hairy on both sides when young, especially above, 

 becoming smooth later. Flowers white suffused with pink towards the centre, 

 scarcely in. diameter, produced usually singly, occasionally in pairs, on short 

 lateral twigs ; calyx almost smooth. Fruit ^ in. long, scarcely so wide, 

 broadest towards the top, tapering to a short stalk, bright scarlet-red. 



Native of the Himalaya ; introduced in 1825. In the beauty of its fruits 

 this is the best of the dwarfer Cotoneasters. They are not only among the 

 largest 'and brightest coloured ; they are usually very abundant, and remain on 

 the plants throughout the winter until February or March. Whilst birds are 

 quite keen for the fruits of C. frigida at the first touch of cold, for some reason 

 they leave those of this species alone. Although scarcely a true evergreen, it 

 retains its leaves very late, especially in mild winters often until March and 

 it rarely becomes quite bare. In mode of growth it bears a distinct 

 resemblance to C. horizontalis, but it is not so low and flat as that quite 

 deciduous species, its fruits are larger, and its calyx less downy. A group of 

 a dozen plants makes a most pleasing winter picture. 



C. SALICIFOLIA, Franchet. 



I do not know that the typical C. salicifolia is in cultivation. It is a species 

 of W. Szechuen, China, discovered by the Abbe David nearly thirty years 

 ago. It has white flowers and red, ovoid fruits, in. long. The two following- 

 varieties are in cultivation : 



Var. FLOCCOSA, Rehder and Wilson. An evergreen shrub 6 to 12 ft. high, 

 the branchlets very slender, downy at first, but becoming smooth and of a 

 dark reddish brown by the end of the season. Leaves leathery, lanceolate or 

 narrowly ovate, wedge-shaped at the base, tapering to a sharp point ; | to 2^ 

 ins. long, to f in. wide ; the upper surface glossy green, wrinkled, not downy ; 

 the lower one covered at first with silky white floss, some of which falls away 

 by the end of the year, showing the grey-white surface beneath ; veins in seven 



