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SPIRALA Kamtchatica, var. himalensis. 
Himalayan form of the Kamtchatha Meadow-sweet. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacex. 
SPIRAA. Botanical Register, vol. 16. fol. 1365. 
Sect. VI. Ulmaria. DC. Prodr. 2.545. 
Torus obsoletus. Stylus clavatus retroflexus. Ovula 2, circa mediam ovarii 
suturam affixa, appensa. Carpella ovario vix dupld majora, erecta, rard 
contorta.——Flores hermaphroditi, cymoso-umbellati. Folia pinnati- 
secta, stipulata. Herbee. DC. Prodr. l.c. 
S. Kamtchatica ; foliis simpliciter palmatis, superioribus subhastatis y. lan- 
ceolatis, petiolis appendiculatis, floribus corymbosis, sepalis reflexis 
pilosis, carpellis hirsutissimis parallelis, stylo subcapitato. DC. J. ¢. 
B. himalensis ; foliis subtus tomentosis ; laciniis seepils acuminatis. 
So many European forms of vegetation occur in the 
Himalayan mountains, that to find there a plant very like our 
British “‘ Queen of the Meadows” (S. ulmaria) excites no 
surprise. The plant now figured is not however exactly that 
species, but is very nearly allied to it, apparently identical 
with a Kamtchatka species, from which it scarcely seems to 
differ except in having the leaves white with down under- 
neath ; a circumstance of no consequence, because SS. ulmaria 
itself varies with leaves both downy and smooth underneath. 
Upon comparing wild specimens from Dr. Royle and 
Dr. Wallich, with others from Kamtchatka, it is found that 
in addition to the smoothness of the latter the segments of the 
leaves are rather less acuminate. 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society. 
A hardy perennial, requiring no more care and about the 
same treatment as the common Spirza Filipendula, or Ulma- 
