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XLVI. EOSACE.E 



M, cynies^ at the ends of short leaf-bearing branchlets. Tr. numerous, dark 

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



Kuram valley. NAV. Himalaya, Indus to .Sarda 5-10,000 ft., extending into the 

 inner dry valley^. Salt range 1,500-2.500 ft. Fl. May-June. 2. C. rosea, Edgew., 

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

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

 glabrous, except woolly margin, said to fl. later than 1. 3. 0. frigida, "Wall., Kumaon 

 to Bhutan, 7-9,000 ft., 1. oblanceolate-oblong, 8-5 in. long, cyme and cal3^x woolly, fr. 

 scarlet. 



B. Leaves generally deciduous, cymes with few fl[owers. 



4 C. acuminata, Lindley ; Brandis F. FL 20^. Vera. Dec reusli, Bagi ; 

 Zain r lush J Kidarkanta. 



A shrub, shoots and young 1. pubes- 

 cent with soft silky hairs, stipules 

 subulate, cilia te, 1. ovate-lanceolate, 

 1-2 in. long. FL white or pink, 

 I in. across, in small 2-(J-fld. cymes 

 at the ends of short leaf-bearing 

 branchlets. Fr. red, turbinate or 

 oblong, I in. long. 



Himalaya, Biab to Sikkini, 4,500-12,000 

 ft., often as underwood in Oak forests. 

 Fl. May- July. 5. C. vulgaris, Lindl. Kash- 

 mir. Head of Rupin valley, Garhwal 

 (D. B. 1874). Western Tibet and "Wazi- 

 ristan. Europe, Western Asia, Siberia, 1. 

 ^~1^, rarely 2 in , broadly oblong or ovate, 

 softly grey - tomentose beneath, cymes 

 2-4-fld., bent down, nearly glabrous, as 

 well as calyx. 6. C. mimmularia, Fisch. 

 et Mey. Baluchistan (Shertij Sherttgi). 

 Kashmir and Western Tibet. Afghanis- 

 tan, Western Asia. L. J-| in. orbicular oi 

 obovate, white-wooUy beneath, cymes 

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

 fld. 7. C. Simondsii, Hort., Khasi hills, 

 erect, 1 i in. long, shortly acuminate, sec. 

 n. 2-3 pair, distinct beneath, ii. solitary or 

 twin, fr. turbinate, scarlet. 8. C. ro- 

 tundifolia, Wall,, Garhwal, Kumaon, Sik- 



kim, a low rigid distichously branching shrub, 1. J-| in., orbicular-obovate, fi. soUtar\ t 

 fr. turbinate, scarlet. 



Fi(». 125. 



-Cotoneaster acuminata, 

 Lindley. 



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C. Leaves generally evergreen, fl. solitary or in pairs. 



9. C. microphylla, Wall. ; Brandis F. FI. 209. 



A rigid, intricately branched, usually prostrate shrub, leaves J-| in. Ion 

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

 fi. white, generally solitary, or two or three together, \ in. diam., fr. globose^ 

 scarlet. 



Himalaya, 4-11,000 ft., Kashmir to Bhutan. Fl. May-June. Closely allied and 

 probably not speciflcally distinct is 10. C. tJiymifoEa, Hoi-t., 1. smaller than 9, ubovatCy 

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

 across. 11. C "buxifolia, Wall. ; Wight Ic. t. 992, Nilgiri, Palni hills, an exceedingly 

 rigid shrub or small tree, forming large dense masses of stiif branches, 1. J- J in., elliptic ^ 

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

 calyx) tomentose, 2--6-fld., fr. globose scarlet. 



Osteomeles anthyllifolia, Lindl. ; Shan hills upper Burma, 4,000 ft. China (common 

 in Yunnan). Pacific islands, A shrub, branchlets, petioles and inflorescence silky^ 

 conspicuous in spring from the profusion of small white fl., L iniparipinnate, leaflets 

 10-15 pair, oblanceolatCj quite entire, mucronate, grey-silky beneath, ^~J in. long, 

 ovary interior 5-celled, one ovule in each cell. Fr. J in. diam. crowned with the trian- 

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



