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SPIRAA vacciniifolia. 
Bilberry-leaved Spirea. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosACEX. 
SPIRAEA. Botanical Register, vol. 15. Jol. 1222. 
S. vacciniifolia (CHAM&DRYON) ; ramulis filiformibus pubescentibus, foliis 
ovatis serrulatis v. duplicato-serratis basi integerrimis] subtüs glaucis, 
paniculis terminalibus densé corymbosis tomentosis, toro denticulato. 
S. vacciniifolia. Don prodr. fi. nep. 227. DC. prodr. v. 2. 546. Bot. Reg. 
1839. misc. no. 88. 
Frutex debilis, 1-3 pedes altus, ramis glabris, ramulis filiformibus pube- 
scentibus. Folia ovata, plana, serrata, nunc Sere integra, basi. semper integer- 
rima, subtus glauca, petiolo venisque primariis rufescentibus; maxima polli- 
caria. Paniculæ terminales, tomentose, corymbose; ramis in capitulum quasi 
aggregatis. Calycis laciniæ ovate, acute, petalis albis, subrotundis, emargi- 
natis integrisve, concavis breviores. Stamina 20, petalis longiora, extra tori 
marginem elevatum, liberum, denticulatum inserta. Ovaria 5, libera. 
A Nepal shrub, introduced by Professor Royle, who pre- 
sented its seeds to the Horticultural Society in the year 1835. 
It is a very pretty species, almost as hardy as a Gueldres 
Rose, its branches having been little injured even in the 
severe winter of 1837-8; it grows from one to three feet 
high, prefers an American Border, and strikes freely from 
cuttings of the half-ripened wood. 
The Society possesses two varieties of it, of one of which 
figs. 1. and 2. in the accompanying plate represent a leaf and 
flower, while fig. 3. is a leaf of the other. Of these the latter 
is much more slender and dwarf, and rather more tender than 
the other, but there are scarcely any further differences be- 
tween them. 
The S. vacciniifolia of the Botanical Cabinet, t. 1408, is 
apparently S. puer kn rather than the species now figured. 
March, 1840. G 
