324 11. ROSACEA, (J. D. Hooker.) [Spima, 



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oblong- ovate. Petals orbicular. Carpels 6-8, tumid, glabrous and shining when 

 ripe. The Indian form has smaller and more numerous carpels than .the European, 



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Sect. III. Sorbaria. Shrubs. Leaves pinnate. Disk adnate to th^ 

 calyx-tube. Carpels connate below ; ovules many. 



3. S. sorbifolia, Linn. ; Led, FL Ross. ii. 15; leaflets 6-9 pair sessile 

 lanceolate- or linear-oblong acuminate doubly seirate glabrous or hairy beneath, 

 stipules linear-subulate, cymes in branched panicles. PalL Flor, Ross. t. 2% -o. 

 S. Lindleyana, Wall Cat. 703 ; LindL in Bot, Reg, t. 33. 



Western temperate Himalayas; from Kuna-v\tjk to Kumaon, alt. 7-10,000 ft. 

 DiSTRiB. Altai Mts. to N. China and Japan. , 



A tall shrub, glabrous or with soft hairs in the young parts, leaflets beneath and 

 inflorescence. Leaves 8-12 in.; leaflets 2-4 in., sessile, gradually narrowed from 

 near the usually rounded base to the long tip ,* terminal sometimes lobed at the base; 

 petiole cylindric. Flowers white, i in. diam. Calyx-tube hemispheric; lobes 

 rounded. Petals orbicular. Carpels 5, glabrous or pubescent; ripe oblong, de- 

 hiscing dorsally. 



Sect. IV. Cbamfiedrya. Shiaibs. Leaves simple Disk adnate to the 

 calyx-tube, glandular. Carpels free ; ovules many. 



• 4. S. callosa, Thunb. FLJap. 209 ; leaves oblong-ovate or -lanceolate 

 aciuninate doubly inciso-serrate glaucous and pubescent or glabrate benea ^ 

 cymes much branched pubescent, flowers hermaphrodite^ bracteoles equalling 

 the calyx, ripe carpels exposed glabrate. LindL 4* -P«'^'^« FL Gnrd.n.U-t 



%. 191. 

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S. For- 



y. 191. S. callosa, var. e. robusta, JSooL / ^- T/tmns. Jlerk Ind, Or. b. -t^^" 

 mi, Planch, in Flo7\ des Serres, ix. 871 ; LindL S^- Faxt. FL Gard, u. l^a, 



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with a woodcut Bat. Mag. t. 5104. 



Khasia Mts. at KuUung rock, and the Boga Panee, alt. 5-6000 ft., 



jP. Zf. # T. r.—DisTRiB. N. China, Japan. . v hes 



An erect orstragglingshrub, -with pubescent or tomoiitoseorglabrate striate branc^^. 



Leaves 1-4 in., glabrous and glaucous beneath, or more or less pubescent or ^^'^'^ ^^^\ 

 those on young twigs sometimes rhomboid-ovate ; petiole very short. -J ^ ^^_ 

 J-^ in. diam., in very open corymbose spreading cymes, pale or deep rose-rea, ^^^ 

 lyx-tube ohcomc ] lobes triangular-ovate, pubescent. Petals orbicular, -^ long, 

 prominent. Bipe carpels ^ in., dark brown, glabrous, shining; styles nearly as h^^ 

 as the valves.— I have described this from Khasia specimens, which are usua y^^^ 

 mentose on the under surface of the leaf, but gome specimens are as S^^^f^^^ .^ fj^m 

 Japanese. It is remarkable that neither Jenkins, .Wallich, nor GriiEth haa 

 the Khasia Mts, 



and stellata, WalL MSS. S. expansa, Wall. Cat. 702. 



Temperate Himalaya fron^' Sirmoue alt. 7-10,000 ft,, to Sikkim and Bbota>, 



6-12,000 ft. ^ confo«»*^^ 



A very variable plant, unless, as is probable, two species ^^7, ^ i y any ^^ 

 xmder the above description, which however have not been distinguished y ^^ -^^ 

 fcanist. — A shrub 2-6 ft. ; branches erect or inclined or horizontal. ^^^^ ^^^iot^^ 

 glaucous beneath and usually glabrate, but sometimes pubescent. The ^^/^(j ovate 

 are those of S. bella proper (c^Z/o.^o. Wall, not Thunb.) in which they are ur ^^ ^^^^^ 

 or oblong obtusely toothed towards the apex only, and oi fastigiata.y^^-^^^^^,^ ^he 

 they are much larger ovate-lanceolate acuminate and inciso-serrate throug 





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