.] u. KOSACEa;. (J. J). Hooker,) 387 



acuminate glabrous above sparsely silky beneatli, nerves distinct, margins 

 subrecuTved, flowers solitary or tvrin subsessile, fruit turbinate scarlet. 0. 

 acuminata, var. Simondsii, Bene. Mem. Fam. Pom. 175. 



Khasia Mts. ? 



The origin of this is unknown. It is probably named after Mr. Simons who col- 

 lected largely in the Khasia Ms. and who may have sent seeds to England from 

 thence or from ^hotan. It is remarkable that it occurs in no Indian Herbarium, but 

 ao would be the fact, that except this be a native of the Khasia, that range should 

 possess no Cotoneaster. It very nearly resembles C. rotundifolia. 



B. Leaves persistent, rigid, ^ in. long ; margins recurved. Flowers almost 

 always solitary. (See also C. nummularia, rotv/ndifolia sltiA Simondsii.) 



9. C. nxicropbylla, Wall. Cat. 662 A,; a low ramous woody intri- 

 cately branched shrub, leaves- J in. ovate or obovate acute retuse or obtuse 

 glossy above pubescent or tbmentose beneatb, matgins recurved, flowers | in. 

 diam., fruit globose scarlet. lAndl. in Sot. Reg. t. 1114 ; Saunders IRefug. Bot. 

 \.t. 49; Brandts For. Fl. 209. 0. emarginata, Saffm. according to Decaisne, 

 Mem. Fam. Pom. 176. ? 0. buxifolia. Baker in Saimdei-s Sefug. Bot. i. t. 53. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 4-8000 ft. from KashmiB to Bhotan ;^var. gladalis 

 from 9-14,000 ft. 



In a dried state it is very difficult to distinguish this from the following, and from 

 single flowered states of C. buxifolia. I suspect that the C. buxifolia of Saunders' 

 Eefiigiiim is a state of this, though it may be a 1 -flowered state oi buxifolia. 



Tae. gladalis ■ leaves glabrous and glaucous beneath, flowers smaller often pink. 

 C. congesta, Baker in Saimders Befug. i. t. 51. 



10. C. thymifolia, Sort. ; Baker in Sawnders, Befug. Bot. i. t. 50 ; an 

 almost prostrate woody intricately branched shrub, leaves \-^ in. cuneate-ob- 

 ovate or oblong tip rounded or retuse glossy above pubescent or tomentose 

 beneath, margins recurved, flowers solitary J in. diam., fruit small globose scar- 

 let. 0. microphylla. Wall. Cat. 662, B. Oratsegus integrifolia, Herb. Ham. 



Temperate and Alpine Himalaya from Kashmir, Falconer, to Sikkim, J. D. H. 



This so resembles certain states of C. microphylla, that I retain it as a species with 

 great doubt ; in habit the two are identical, but C. thymifolia has narrower leaves 

 that are never elliptic or ovate or acute, but always broader upwards and rounded or 

 retuse at the tip ; the flowers are smaller, but this is not a character of much value. 

 It was distributed with true micrbpKylla. by "Wallich and with buxifolia by Strachey 

 and Wiiitef bottom from Nynee Tal. ' 



11. C. buxifolia, Wall. Cat. 661 ; a small rigid intricately branched 

 woody bush, leaves ^ in. elliptic-ovate acute or apiculate dull not shining and 

 often pubescent above densely tomentose beneath, margins recurved, cymes 2-6- 

 flowered tomentose short, fruit globose scarlet. Wight Ic. t. 992 ; Beddome 

 FLSylvat. Anal. Orni. xcvii. 1. 13, f. 3. 0. afiinis, DC. Prodi: ii. 632 {the Nil- 

 ghiriplttnt). 0. lanata, Hort. ; Begel Gartenfi. ix. 59. 



Western Peninsula, Nelohiei and Pulney Mts. ? Temperate Himalaya from 

 SiEMOEE, alt. 4-7000 ft. to Bhotan, alt. 10,000 ft, Griffith. 



I have under C. microphyUa stateA that it is difficult t9 distinguish dried single- 

 flowered specimens of this from that plant, though in their ordinary states they are 

 very different, C. bwinfoKa having an opaque and often hoary or haiiy. upper surface 

 to the leaf, which is more regular in shaps, and several-flowered cymes, with smaller 

 flower and fruit. I am in great doubt as to any of the Himalayan specimens referred 

 to this being other than ia-S-flowered states of microphylla. . The C. lanata, of Lindley 

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