208 XXXII. EOSACKiE. [Cratceffus. 



ceolate calyx-segments, peduncles and calyx-tube pubescent, and deeply lobed or 

 pinnatifid leaves ; and 2. U. Oxyaeantha, Jacq., with 2-3 carpels and styles, 2-3 

 nuts, calyx-segments triangular, peduncles and calyx-tube glabrous, leaves den- 

 tate, with 3 shallow lobes at the top, flowering a fortnight earlier. The Indian 

 specimens approach more to G. monogyna, and are referred to it by Boissier 1. 

 c. 664. In England there are intermediate forms between the 2 sub-species, 

 though in nursery-grounds the seed of C. monogyna is not known to produce 

 plants of the other form (Syme Engl. Bot. iii. 238). 



2. C. Pyracantha, Persoon. — Syn. C. crenulata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 509 ; Bot. Eeg. 30 t. 52. Cotoneaster Pyracantha and G. crenulata, Koch. 

 1. c. 175. — Vern. Omgdru, gidnru, N.W.P. 



A large shrub, or small, much -branched, stiff-branched tree, with spines- 

 cent branchlets, glabrous, the youngest branchlets sometimes pubescent. 

 Leaves glabrous, shining, coriaceous, linear-oblong, 1-2 in. long, narrowed 

 into a short marginate petiole, crenate, generally approximate c^ short 

 lateral branchlets. Stipules deciduous. Flowers white, numerous, smaller 

 than those of G. Oxyacantha, in short compound cymes. Carpels 5. 

 Fruit nearly globose, less than \ in. diam., orange or vermilion. 



Himalaya 5000-7000 ft., from Sutlej to Bhutan. In Kamaon as low down as 

 2500 ft. Caucasus, Western Asia, and South Europe. Evergreen ; fl. April- May; 

 fruit ripens July, Aug. Hardy in England. The western form, G. Pyracantha, 

 has scarlet fruit, but there seems to be no other difference sufficiently important 

 to maintain the two as separate species. 



Photinia dubia, Lindl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. t. 10, is an evergreen shrub or 

 tree, with coriaceous, crenate, prominently penniveined leaves, and white flowers 

 in terminal panicles. The fruit is an ovoid berry, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx, 1-5-celled, endocarp and dissepiments thin. East Bengal and Burma, has 

 not been found in the N.W. Himalaya. What Madden mentions under this 

 name is Stranvmsia glaucescens, Lindl. 



7. COTONEASTER, Medicus. 



Shrubs or small trees, with alternate, coriaceous, generally entire, often 

 downy leaves and deciduous stipules. Flowers smaU, white or pink, soli- 

 tary or in few- or many-flowered axiUary or terminal corymbose cynies. 

 ■Calyx-segments 5, short, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens many, inserted 

 at the mouth of calyx. Carpels 2-5, adnata whoUy, or by their bacis 

 only to the calyx-tube; styles 2-5, free; stigma truncate; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, erect. Fruit small, with 2-5 bony 1-seeded stones. 

 Leaves deciduous, soft-putescent. 



Leaves oblong or ovate ; flowers numerous in spreading com- 



pound pedunculate cymes 1. (7. bacillaris. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate j flowers 5-10, in short compact cymes 2. C. acuminata 

 Leaves more or less persistent, obovate or rotundate; with white 

 woolly tomentum beneath; flowers in short few-flowered 



cymes . 3_ gr nummularia. 



Leaves evergreen, flowers solitary i. C. microphylla. 



1. C. baciUaris, Wall.— Syn. C. oUusa, Wall., and G. ajinis, Lindl 

 V em. Ri, riu, hn, Ivm., ran, rauns res, risk, Pb. Him. ; Ruinsh, Jaonsar 

 Bawur. 



