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SPIRAA Reevesiana. 
Mr. Reeves's Spirea. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosACEX. 
SPIRAEA. L. 
S. Reevesiana ; foliis lanceolatis serratis trilobis pinnatifidisve utrinque glabris 
subtus glaucescentibus, racemis capitatis terminalibus pedunculatis, 
sepalis intus villosis. 
S. Reevesiana, Hort. 
S. corymbosa, Rozxb. fl. ind. 2. 512. 
Frutex fere sempervirens, nitidus, S. chameedrifolise aspectu, foliis in 
ramis vegetioribus fere pinnatifidis in planta juniore sepe trilobis, senectute 
indivisis serratis. 
This plant, which was introduced from China by Mr. 
Reeves, whose name it bears, is generally supposed to be the 
S. lanceolata of Poiret: but that species is described with 
axillary sessile umbels, and must therefore be different. It is 
certainly Roxburgh's S. corymbosa, a name however which, 
being pre-occupied by Rafinesque, cannot well be retained. 
Probably, it is also the no. 701 of Dr. Wallich's Indian Her- 
barium, and if so, may be a native of the mountains of India, 
as Dr. Roxburgh states. 
The leaves on its strong young shoots are so deeply lobed 
as to be almost pinnatifid. On the branches, when the plant 
is young, they are frequently 3-lobed ; but as it becomes old 
they lose their lobed character altogether. 
It is a handsome hardy sub-evergreen shrub, growing in 
any good garden soil from three to four feet high. It is 
easily increased from cuttings of the small half-ripened twigs 
any time during the summer or autumn. The cuttings should 
