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fld. cymes, at the ends of short leaf-bearing brauchlets. Fr. numerous, dark 

 purplish- brown, on slender pedicels, in large spreading bunches. 



Kuram valley. N.W. Himalaya, rndus to Sards 5-10,000 ft., extending into the 

 inner dry valleys. Salt range 1,500-2,500 ft. FJ. May-June. 'J. C. rosea, Edgew., 

 Tehri Garhwal 8-9,000 ft. Bajamara, Jaunsar. Paternalla. Chenab valley. 

 Branches slender, drooping, leaves less hairy, fl. pink, smaller than 1. calyx nearly 

 glabrous, except woolly margin, said to H. later than 1. 3. C. frigida, Wall!. Kumaon 

 to Bhutan. 7-9,000 ft., 1. oblanceolate-oblong, 3-5 in. long, cyme and calyx woolly, fr. 

 scarlet. 



B. Leaves generally deciduous, cymes with few flowers. 



1. C. acuminata, Lindlev ; Brandis F. Fl. 209. Vern. De 

 '/.dm riilsh, Kidarkanta. 



A shrub, shoots and young 1. pubes- 

 cent with soft silky hairs, stipules 

 subulate, ciliate, 1. ovate-lanceolate, 

 1—2 in. long. Fl. white or pink, 

 $ in. across, in small 2-6-fld. cymes 

 at the ends of short leaf-bearing 

 brauchlets. Fr. red. turbinate or 

 oblong, l in. long. 



Himalaya, Bias to Siikim, 1,500-12,000 

 H.. often as miiliTwood in Oak forests. 

 Fl. May-July, "i.e. vulgaris, Liiel I. Kash- 

 mir. Head of Bupin valley, Garhwal 

 ill. II. 1874 . Western Tibet and Wazi- 

 ristan. Kino],.'. Western Asia. Siberia, I. 

 ; Li, rarely 2 in , broailh obli >ngor o\ at". 



softly grey - tomentose beneath, cymes 



2 I fid., bent down, nearly glabrous, as 



well as calyx. >'•■ C. nummularia, Fiseh. 



el BAey. Baluchistan (Sheru, Sherugi). 



Kashmir and Western Tibet. afghanis- 



t :■ 1 1 . Western Asia . I.. \ |in, orbicular oi 



obovate, white-woolly beneath, cymes 



erect, white-woolly as well as calyx, 2 5 



Mil. 7. C. Simondsli, Sort., Khasi hills, 



erect, I. J in. long, shortly acuminate, sit. 



n. -j 3 pair, distinct beneath, fl. solitary or 



t w iii. fr. turbinate, scarlet. 8. C. ro- 



tundifolia, Wall., Garhwal, Kumaon, Sik- 



kiin. a low rigid distichously branching shrub, I. \ 



fr. turbinate, scarlel . 



reUsh, Bagi 



i j 



i oion -aster acuminata, 

 Lindley. i. 



irbicular-obox al e, tl. solitarx . 



('. Leaves grin-rally evergreen, 11. solitary or in pairs. 



!i. C. microphylla, Wall. : Brandis I-'. PI. 209. 



A rigid, intricate!} branched, usually prostrate shrub, leaves '. j in, long, 

 obovate or ovate-lanceolate, glossy above, pubescent beneath, margins recurved. 

 ll. white, generally solitary, or two or three together, .'. in, diam., fr. globose, 



scarlel. 



Himalaya, I L1,000 n . Kashmir to Bhutan. Fl. M i \ Ji Closely allied and 



probably not specificallj distinct is 10. C. thymifolia. Sort., I. smaller than 9, obovate, 

 tip rounded or retuse, glossy above, pubescent or tomentose beneath, fl. solitary, J in. 



across. 11. C. buxlfoUa, Wall.; Wight [o, t. 992, Nilgiri, Palni bills, an ex idingh 



rigid shrub or small tree, forming large dense masses of stiff branches, I. j Jin., ellip 

 acute al both ends, densely tomentose beneath, margins recurved, cymes (as well as 

 calj \ I tomentose, 2 6-fld., fr. globose scarlel 



Osteomeles anthylllfolia, I, hell. ; Shan bills upper Burma, I, ft < bins common 



in Yunnan . Pacific islands. A shrub, branohlets, petioles and inflorescence - i I k \ , 



ConspicuotiH in spring from the profusion of sm:il| white fl., I. i in pari pin mite, leaflets 



in l.'i pair, oblanceolate, quite entire, mi te, grey-silkj beneath, , ' In. long, 



ovarj inferior 5 celled, o vule in each cell. Fr. 1 in. diam. crowned with the trian 



gular lanceolate persistent calyx-lobes, enclosing 5 distinct bonj pyrenes. 



