416 COTONEASTER 



C. TOMENTOSA, Lindley. 



A deciduous shrub of bushy habit, up to 6 or 8 ft. high, closely allied to 

 C. integerrima and differing chiefly in the rounder, larger leaves, the biggest 

 of which are 2^ ins. long and i^- ins. wide, slightly hairy above, very woolly 

 beneath ; stalk \ to 5- in. long. Flowers in short, nodding clusters, from three 

 to six in each cluster, white ; calyx very woolly ; fruit red. 



Native of the mountainous parts of Central and S. Europe ; introduced in 

 1759. It can scarcely be regarded as more than a variety of C. integerrima, 

 although a rather superior one. The leaves 'are larger and more uniformly 

 rounded at both ends, still not invariably so. The best distinction is afforded 

 by the extremely woolly calyx and flower-stalk. (See also C. ZABELII.) 



C. TURBINATA, Craib. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8546.) 



A vigorous evergreen shrub, probably 10 ft. or more high, of graceful 

 habit; young shoots covered with fluffy grey down. Leaves narrowly oval, 

 tapering about equally at both ends to a sharp point; f to 2^ ins. long, f to 

 i in. wide; dark dull green above, covered beneath with a thick, grey- white 

 felt. Flowers in. wide, white, with rose-coloured anthers, produced towards 

 the end of July in hemispherical corymbs i^ to i\ ins. across; flower-stalks 

 and calyx covered with grey wool; petals round; calyx-lobes triangular- 

 acuminate. Fruit pear-shaped, in. long, deep red, downy, ripe in October. 



Native of China; introduced to Kew in 1910 from Mr de Vilmorin's 

 collection at Les Barres. It is apparently perfectly hardy, and of rapid 

 growth, remarkable and valuable among Cotoneasters in flowering so late 

 six or eight weeks later than the majority, and a month later than any. 



C. UNIFLORA, Bunge. 



This name has in gardens been given to several species of Cotoneaster 

 quite distinct from the true plant, most often to the evergreen C. microphylla, 

 with which it has nothing in common. The true uniflora of Bunge is a 

 deciduous shrub, found on the mountains of Siberia and Altai. It is, perhaps, 

 only a dwarfed and depauperated C. integerrima. In a wild state it is from 

 a few inches to 2^ fr. high, with thin, obovate or broadly oval leaves, f to i in. 

 long, smooth above, downy when young beneath. Flowers usually solitary, 

 sometimes in pairs ; petals whitish, calyx glabrous. Fruit globose, red. This 

 shrub is scarcely worth cultivating, and has probably no real claim to specific 

 rank, but it differs from C. integerrima in its dwarfer habit, its fewer flowers, 

 and in the less woolly, smaller, narrower leaves. 



C. ZABELII, C. K. Schneider. 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 9 ft. high ; young shoots covered with loose greyish 

 hairs, becoming smooth the second year, and dark brown. Leaves to i ins. 

 long, half to two-thirds as wide ; variable in shape, but usually oval or ovate, 

 mostly blunt to rounded at the apex, but sometimes pointed, the base rounded 

 to truncate ; dark dull green abovfe, with loose, appressed hairs, clothed beneath 

 with yellowish grey felt ; stalk in. long, felted. Flowers in clusters of four to 

 ten, small, rose-coloured ; stamens twenty ; flower-stalk and calyx felted. 

 Fruit red, roundish, pear-shaped, downy, \ in. long. 



Native of W. Hupeh, China ; introduced in 1907 by Wilson, who described 

 it as the common Cotoneaster of the thickets ofW. Hupeh. It is allied to 

 integerrima and tomentosa ; from the former it differs in its felted calyx, and 

 from both in the more numerously flowered inflorescences. 



