XXVI. ROSA‘CEE: COTONEA’STER. 407 
of Jura, and in other parts of the Alps of Switzerland ; and in cultivation 
in British gardens since 1759. 
w 3. C. (v.) LaxiFLoRA Jacq. The loose-flowered Cotoneaster 
Identification. Jacq. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1305 ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1305. ; and our jigs. 739. and 740. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong, obtuse at both 
ends, smooth above, and woolly beneath. 
Cymes panicled, pilose. Calyxes quite 
smooth. Flowers pink. (Don’s Mill.) 
Branches brownish purple, with an ash- 
coloured cuticle, which peels off. A de- 
ciduous shrub, flowering in April, and having 
the same general appearance and habit as C. 
vulgaris, but differing from it in having large 
looseracemes,and ip the colour of its flowers, 
and their greater number. It was raised in 
the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
from seeds sent by Professor Jacquin of 
Vienna, in 1826. Its native country is 
739. C. (v. laxiflora. unknown. 740. C. (v.) laxiflara. 
Variety. 
x C.(v.) 1. 2 unifora Fischer.—Flowers solitary. Horticultural Society’s 
Garden, 
g « +. C. penticuLa‘ra. The toothed-leaved Cotoneaster. 
Ident fication. H. et B., vol. vi. p. 214. 
ngravings. H. et B., vol. vi. t. 556. ; and our jig. 741. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 
rounded on both sides, mucronate-cuspidate, den- 
ticulate at the apex, coriaceous, smooth above, 
tomentose, pubescent and hoary beneath. Co- 
rymbs simple. Flowers sub-dodecandrous, with 
1—2 stigmas. Calyx woolly tomentose. (//. e¢ @\p 
B.) A shrub, apparently sub-evergreen, and very 
like C. vulgaris. Mexico, on elevated plains 
near Actopa, at the height of 6000 ft. Height 
?5 ft. to 6ft. Introduced in 1839. Flowers 
white; September. Fruit ?. Raised in the Hor- 
ticultural Society’s Garden from seeds sent home 
by M. Hartweg. 
741. C, denticulata. 
§ ii. Sub-evergreen or deciduous. Tall Shrubs or low Trees. 
e 5.C. Fri’cipa Wall. The frigid Cotoneaster 
Identification. Wall. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1229.; and Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Synonyme. Pyrus Nussia Ham. in Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 237., Dec. Prod. 2. p. 634, . 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1229.; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., vol. vi.; and our sig. 742. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branchlets woolly. Leaves elliptical, mucronate, coriaceous, 
crenulated, glabrous, woolly beneath when young. Corymbs paniculate, 
terminal, white, and woolly. Pomes spherical. (Dec. Prod.) A sub-ever- 
green shrub or low tree. Nepal, on the higher mountains of the northern 
region. Height 10 ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1824. Flowers of a snowy 
white, produced in great abundance; April and May. Fruit crimson, or 
bright red ; ripe in September, and generally remaining on the trees great 
part of the winter. 
A remarkably robust-gro wing, sub-evergreen, low tree, producing shoots 3 or 
4. feet long every season, when young; and, in 3 or 4 years from the seed, 
becoming very prolific in flowers anda bay, As the fruit, with the greater part 
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