410 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BftriANNlCUM. 



745. C. nummulhria. 



S2'>ec. Char., Sfc. Disk of leaf flat, orbicular, or elliptical, ending in a mucrp, 

 in some instances emarginate. Petiole of about the length of the stipules, 

 which are linear-lanceolate, membranous, and soon fall off. Bark, buds, 

 flower buds, stipules, petiole, the under surface of the disk of the leaf, and 

 part of the upper surface of the mich-ib, tonientosely hairy, while in a young 

 state ; the bark, petioles, midrib on its upper surface, and calyx, become 

 glabrous when old. Flowers in axillary cymes, few in a cyme. Style and 

 carpel, which has a bony shell, mostly solitary. Erect, branched in a spread- 

 ing manner; branchlets straight, slender. An elegant low sub-evergreen 

 tree. Nepal, in the mountainous region. Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1824. Flowers white ; April andMay. Berries numerous, black; 

 ripe in September. 



A very handsome species, distinguished at first sight from the others by its 

 spreading habit of growth and smaller leaves. 



iii. Leaves evergreen, leathery. Low Sliruhs, with prostrate 

 Branches ; Trailers, hut not properly Creepers. 



a. 9. C. ROTUNDiFO^LiA Wall. The round-leaved Cotoneaster. 



Identifi cation. Wall. Cat. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1229. 

 Synunymes. C. micropli;>'lla /3 U'va-firsi Litidl. 

 But. Rrg. 1.1187.; C. U~va-ursi Ilort.; the 

 Bearberry.leaved Nepal Cotoneaster. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1187.; and our Jigs. 

 746. and 747. 



Spec, Char., Src Leaves roundish, pi- 

 lose beneath, evergreen. Peduncles 

 l-flowered. Producing its white flow- 

 ers in April and May. (Don's Mill.) 

 An evergreen shrub. Nepal, on 

 mountains. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. In- 

 troduced in 1825. Flowers white, 

 with the backs of the petals often 



rotiindif'lia. 



7 7. C, rcmindiftH*. 



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