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vix 1 mm. longi, villosuli; petala alba, subrotundata, circiter 5 mm. 

 diam., breviter unguiculata, basi intus pilosa; stamina circiter 20, 

 longiora petalis paullo breviora, antheris flavis; carpidia 2, apice 

 villosa. Fructus globosus, 8-10 mm. diam., ruber, leviter pruinosus; 

 pyrenae 2, arete coherentes, obovoideae, 5-6 mm. longae et 4-5 mm. 

 diam., ventre planae, stylum in apice gerentes, dorso valde convexae, 

 sulcis distinctis 4-5, hypostylio apicem applanatum tantum obtegente 

 irregulariter gibboso villosulo. 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, 1300-2000 m., not common, 

 October 1907 (No. 334, type); Pao-kang-Hsien, August 1901 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 2030''). Eastern Szech'uan: South Wush&n, A. Henry 

 (No. 5525). Western Szech'uan, without locahty, chffs, etc., 2100 

 m., August 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3509; shrub 4 m. tall). 



This species seems most closely related to C. multiflora Bunge, but is easily dis- 

 tinguished by the densely tomentulose lower surface of the leaves, the villose in- 

 florescence and by the small hypostyle of its stones. From C. racemiflora K. Koch 

 it differs in the larger flowers, longer stamens with yellow anthers, larger globose 

 fruit, and by the hypostyle covering only the flattened apex of the stones. 



Cotoneaster multiflora Bunge in Ledebour, Fl. Alt. II. 220 (1830). 

 — Ledebour, Ic. FL Ross. III. 22, t. 274 (1831). — Schneider, III. 

 Handh. Lauhholzk. I. 755, fig. 424 c, m-n (1906). 



Cotoneaster reflexa Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1870-71, 520. — Andr6 in Rev. Hort. 



1892, 327, fig. 100. 

 Cotoneaster vulgaris, var. glabrata Hort. ex Kew Hand-list Trees and Shrubs, 



I. 213 (synon.) (1894). 



Western Szech'uan: near Tachien-Iu, alt. 1600-2300 m., Sep- 

 temper 1908 (No. 1061, bush 1.5-3 m., fruit dark-red); north of 

 Tachien-lu, alt. 2400-3000 m., Sept. 1910 (No. 413 1, bush 2-2.5 m., 

 fruit scarlet). Shensi: north-west of Han-chung Hsien, 1910, W. 

 Purdom; Yenan Fu, 1910, W.Purdom. Chili: east Wei-chang, 1909, 

 W. Purdom. 



In the original figure of Cotoneaster multiflora Bunge the fruit is shown as oblong- 

 ovoid, whereas in the Chinese specimens the fruit is globose when mature but 

 elongate in early stages of development. We rather suspect the figure cited above 

 as made from immature specimens. 



In Shensi this species is apparently very common. In western Szech'uan it is con- 

 fined to dry warm river-valleys and is not common. In both the Shensi and Sze- 

 ch'uan specimens before us the mature leaves are glabrous and subglaucescent 

 below. 



Cotoneaster multiflora, var. calocarpa Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 

 A typo recedit foUis majoribus 2.5-4.5 cm. longis et 1.5-2.6 cm. latis, 



