ROSACE AE. — COTONE ASTER 165 



June 1908 (No. 2181, bush 2 m. tall, flowers pinkish); Mt. Omei, alt. 

 2300-2800 m., October 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3515 a). 



This variety resembles in its many-flowered corymbs C. bullata, f. floribunda, 

 n. comb. (C moupinensis, f. floribunda Stapf), which is easily distinguished by its 

 mucli smaller leaves generally ovate or sometimes obovate and rounded at the 

 base and more densely pubescent beneath, and by the pubescent calyx and the 

 chestnut brown branches. 



Cotoneaster Franchetii Bois in Rev. Hort, 1902, 379, figs. 159, 160, 

 161, 164; 1907, 256, fig. 90. t.; in Vilmorin & Bois, Frut. Vilmorin. 

 117, 2 fig. (1904); in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. iii. 228 (1906). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2500-2900 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 995; bush 2-3 m. tall, fruit bright red); Niu- 

 tou-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, alt. 2300 m., June 1908 (No. 2171); 

 west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, alt. 2000-2600 m., October 1910 

 (No. 4160; bush 1.5-3 m. tall, fruit scarlet). 



Our specimens differ from the cultivated type only in the bracts and bractlets 

 of the inflorescence being rather short. ^ 



1 A closely related species is the following, of which a full description may be 

 added here: 



Cotoneaster amoena Wilson in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LI. 2, fig. 1 (1912). 



Frutex 1-1.5 m. altus, dense ramosus; ramuli hornotini subaccumbenti-villosi, 

 annotini tarde glabrescentes, demum fusco-purpurei; gemmae tomento subaccum- 

 benti-villoso cinereo-albido obtectae. FoUa decidua, ovata v. elhptico-ovalia, acuta 

 mucronulata, basi late cuneata, 10-22 mm. plerumque 15 mm. longa et 6-15 mm., 

 plerumque 6-10 mm. lata, supra sparse pubescentia, subtus villoso-tomentosa, 

 utrinsecus nervis 2-4 ut costa supra impressia subtus elevatis; petioli tomentosi, 

 2-5 mm. longi; stipulae membranaceae, subulatae, pubescentes, 4-5 mm. longae. 

 Corymbus densus, 6-10-florus, ramulos laterales breves foliosos terminans, brac- 

 teis bracteolisque subulatis membranaceis caducis 3-5 mm. longis; calycis tubus 

 tomento subaccumbenti-villoso albido obtectus, dentes anguste triangulari-ovati, 

 sensim in aristam fuscescentem producti; petala rotundata, breviter unguicu- 

 lata, erecta, 2-2.5 mm. longa lataque; stamina 20, sepaUs breviora v. aequilonga; 

 carpidia 2-3, apice villosa. Fructus globosus, 5-6 mm. diam., miniatus, subsessUis, 

 apice villosulus; pyrenae 2-3, triangulari-obovoideae, 4-5 mm. longae, ventre 

 carinatae, nitentes, stylum trientem infra apicem gerentes, dorso medio leviter 

 sulcatae saepe etiam sulcis obsoletis lateralibus praeditae, hypostylio brunneo 

 nitido trientem dorsi occupante. 



Yunnan: This description is drawn up from specimens made from plants in 

 Hort. Veitch. under No. 1889 raised from seeds collected southwest of Mengtze, 

 alt. 1600-1700 m. (Veitch Exped.; type in Herb. Arnold Arboretum); mountains 

 north of Mengtze, A.Henry (No. 11341). 



Closely allied to Cotoneaster Franchetii Bois, which is distinguished by its lax 

 spreading habit, larger cymes, longer peduncles and longer pedicels and by its 

 broader, less acuminate sepals. The living plants show greater differences than 

 the herbarium material would lead one to suspect. Henry's No. 107S5 has longer 

 leaves and glabrescent aepala and is evidently from a vigorous plant. 



