410 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
745. C. nummularia. 
Spec. Char., §c. Disk of leaf flat, orbicular, or elliptical, ending in a mucro, 
in some instances emarginate. Petiole of about the length of the stipules, 
which are linear-lanceolate, membranous, and soon fall off. Bark, buds, 
flower buds, stipules, petiole, the under surface of the disk of the leaf, and 
part of the upper surface of the midrib, tomentosely hairy, while in a young 
state ; the bark, petioles, midrib on its upper surface, and calyx, become 
glabrous when old. Flowers in axillary cymes, few inacyme. Style and 
carpel, which has a bony shell, mostly solitary. Erect, branched in a spread- 
ing manner; branchlets straight, slender. An elegant low sub-evergreen 
tree. Nepal, in the mountainous region. Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. Intro- 
duced in 1824. Flowers white ; April and May. Berries numerous, black ; 
ripe in September. 
A very handsome species, distinguished at first sight from the others by its 
spreading habit of growth and smaller leaves. 
§ iii. Leaves evergreen, leathery. Low Shrubs, with prostrate 
Branches ; Trailers, but not properly Creepers. 
» 9. C. RorunpDIFO‘LIA Wall, The round-leaved Cotoneaster. 
Identifi cation. Wall. Cat. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1229. 
Synonymes. C. microphylla 8 U'va-tirsi Lindi. 
Bot. Reg. t.1187.; C. U'va-arsi Hort.; the 
Bearberry-leaved Nepal Cotoneaster. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1187.5 and our figs. 
‘746. and 747. Ws 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves roundish, pi- 
lose beneath, evergreen. Peduncles 
1-flowered. Producing its white flow- 
ers in April and May. (Don’s Mill.) , 
An evergreen shrub. Nepal, on 
mountains. Height 3 ft. to 4ft. In- 
troduced in 1825. Flowers white, 
with the backs of the petals often 
746. C. rotundifolia. 717. €. rotundifolia. 
