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SPIRAA pubescens. 
Downy Spirea. 
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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacrx. (Roseworrs, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 563.) 
SPIRAL A.—L. 
S. pubescens ; ramis foliisque prsesertim subtus pubescentibus, foliis ovato- 
oblongis acutis grossé serratis subtrilobis, corymbis parvis hemisphericis, 
carpellis 5 pilosis. 
S. pubescens, *'Turczaninow decades plant. sinens. 11," fide Walpers 
Repert. 2. 49. Journal of Hort. Soc. 2. p. 157. 
This shrub is one of Mr. Fortune's minor acquisitions in 
Chusan. It is certainly identical with the Spiræa pubescens, 
Bunge, of which we have a specimen by favour of the 
Imperial Museum of St. Petersburgh. 
Our drawing was made in March last in the Garden of 
the Horticultural Society. In the Journal of the Society it 
is spoken of thus. 
“ This is a small grey shrub, with little hemispherical 
umbels of pure white small flowers, having a slight fragrance. 
In habit it may be compared to a weak Spiræa opulifolia. 
Its leaves, when full grown, are about an inch and a half 
long, much wrinkled, wedge-shaped and entire at the base, 
unequally serrated towards the point, and covered beneath 
with wool, which becomes cinnamon-coloured as it grows old. 
The uppermost leaves beneath the umbels are oval or oblong, 
ánd less unequally serrated." 
* [t appears to be nearly hardy, grows about two feet 
high, and flowers freely in any good garden soil. We may 
expect this to prove an ornamental shrub for planting in 
sheltered situations and warm districts." 
Fig. 1. represents a section of a flower, minus the petals. 
