22 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
subglabra, subtus tomento fulvido laxiusculo ex toto induta ; 
nervi 4-5 paria, supra impressuli, cum costa impressa faciem 
subrugosam efficientes, infra paulo eminentes. Flores desunt. 
Fructus 3-II in racemis congestis ramulos breves terminanti- 
bus; pedunculus brevis cum pedicellis 2-4 mm. longis dense 
adpresse fulvo-pilosus ; fructus ipsi pyriformes circ. 5 mm. longi, 
apice fere 5 mm. lati, kermesini, plus minusve pilosi, sepalis in- 
flexis tomentellis coronati ; pyrenae vulgo 5, triangulari-ovoideae, 
4 mm. longae, 2 mm. latae, nitentes, pallide brunneae. 
“* China :—Shweli Valley, Yunnan. Lat. 25° 30’ N. Alt. 
8000 ft. Shrub of 6-9 ft. Fruits dull crimson. Amongst scrub 
in open situations. Sept. 1913.’ G. Forrest. No. 12,046. 
The following examples also in fruit and from the same area 
are probably conspecific; they have, however, fewer fruits in 
the inflorescence and fewer pyrenes, usually 3-4 :— 
‘“ Mingkwong Valley, Yunnan. Lat. 25° 15’ N. Alt. 6000— 
7ooo0 ft. Shrub of 3-5 ft. In fruit. Pee scrub. June 
Ig12.”’ G. Forrest. No. 8350. 
““Mingkwong Valley. Lat. 25° 20’ N. Alt. 7ooo ft. Shrub 
of 4-8 ft. Fruits scarlet. Open situations amongst rocks. 
July 1912.”” G. Forrest. No. 8584. 
Cotoneaster hebephylla, Diels, var. fulvida, W. W.Sm. Var. 
nov 
Foliis subtus tomento fulvido densiuscule indutis, ramulis 
floriferis pedicellisque calycibusque plus minusve dense fulvido- 
adpresso-pilosis recedit. 
“China :—Yungchang-Mekong divide, Yunnan. Lat. 25° 15’ 
N. Alt. 7000 ft. Shrub of 6-8 ft. Flowers creamy-white. Open 
situations amongst scrub. May 1913.”’ G. Forrest. No. 9888. 
( ed Var. incana, W. W.Sm. Var. nov. 
Foliis supra sublucidis infra tomento denso ad fructus maturi 
tempus persistente incano vix fulvido notata; flores non visi ; 
fructus pyriformis 7-9 mm. longus, apice circ. 6 mm. latus, 
ruber ; pyrenae 2, plano-convexae, 5 mm. longae, 3 mm. latae. 
“ China :—On the Tong-Shan, in the Yangtze bend, Yunnan. 
Lat. 27° 20’ N. Alt. 10,000 ft. Shrub of 6-9 ft. In fruit. 
Fruits. red. Open scrub. Aug. 1913.’ G. Forrest. No. 
10,837. 
tty Var. majuscula, W. W.Sm. Var. nov. 
Foliis ellipticis majoribus plerumque circ. 3 cm. longis apice 
basique subrotundatis vel obtusis, inflorescentiis effusioribus, 
floribus majoribus a typo discrepat. : 
