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gpircBa.] LI. ROSACE^. . (J. D. Hooker.) 326 



latter is usually a more erect plant, with shorter stricter stouter stems, and closely 

 resembles 8. callosa, differing chiefly in the apparently more or less dioecious flowers. 

 B» hella proper, on the other hand, is more slender, often nearly prostrate, with arched 

 tranches ; there are however all manner of intermediate forms, and some specimens 

 nave both types of leaf. Flowers pink, or rarely white. Cali/x-lohes acute, tube 



■WUOUS within. Stamens juinuto auu ueiunucu m luo :f iiuwurs, luiig Ml uie c - 



Ovaries small or absent, those of the $ flowers with long styles, of the $ short. 

 J^k of broad incurved scales. Sipe carpels as in S, callosa. 



, 6. S> micrantlia, Hooh.f,) leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate doubly 

 inciso-serrate glaucous hairy beneathj cymes very broad lax and open, bracteoles 

 lihfonn often exceeding the calyx, flowers subdioecious, ripe carpels exposed 

 villous. S. callosa va7\ macrophylla, Hooh, f. Sf Thorns. Herb. Ltd, Or, 



Eastern temperate Himalaya: Sikkim alt. 6-8000 ft. J. B. H.; Bhotan, alt. 

 5800-10,000 ft, Griffiih. 



Very similar to the fast ig lata form of S, hella, but more lax in habit, leaves some- 

 nines 7 in, very membranous or coriaceous. Flowers ^-| in. diam., in very long 

 ^reading panicles, pale coloured. Disk-gla7ids large. Calyx-txthe villous within. 

 ^racteoles filiform, often much produced. Ripe carpels much smaller than in -S. cal- 

 losa and bella, clothed densely with spreading hairs. 



7. S. canescens, Bon Prodr. 227 ; softly tomentose, branches stout 

 aj'ching, leaves small subsessile obovate or cuneate-obovate quit« entire or ob- 

 tusely 3-5-toothed at the tip, corymbs small compound, flowers hermaphrodite, 

 ^pe carpels half sunk in the calyx-tube villous. S. cuneifolia. Wall Cat. 691) ; 

 -^tndl m BoU Reg, 1839, Misc, 59; Camb. in Jacq. Vog, Bot. 47, t. 57. 



Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon alt. 6-12,000 ft., and in Sikkim 

 ^It 10^12,000 ft. 



A shrub, 6 ft., with densely leafy branches. Leaves i-§ in, coriaceous, acute 

 ^P obtuse; nerves very oblique; petiole very short Corymbs very numerous, 

 jl^ in. diam. Flowers pale pink or white, J in. dJani. Stamens not exceeding the 

 Petals. Bisk with broad notched glands. Ripe carpels sunk half or whole way in the 

 ^^Imate calyx-tube. 



^\ S- arcuata, Hook. /. ; glabrate, branches stout arched, leaves small 

 Pooled obovate obtusely 3-8-toothed or -lobed at the rounded top rareljr entire 



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Si^iM Himalaya, subalpine; Yemutong and Lachoong, alt. 12-14,000 ft, 

 ^l ^' ; Jongri, C. B. Clarke. . . 



glabro 



Lea 



e^abrous or nearly so, narrowed into a slender petiole. Corymbs dense-flowered. 

 JJ^V'^ 5 in- diam, red. Stauiens not exceeding the petal. Bi^k with broad notched 

 alii 1 ' ^^^^ carpels not at all sunk in the turbinate very short calyx-tnbe.— Closely 

 retl fl ^^ ^' *^«^i^^*mi5, but more robust and glabrate, .with more petioled leaves, larger 

 ^^^ers and very diflferent fruit. 



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odr. 227: leaves small 



183. 



crenate glaucous and hoary be- 



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700 



estern temperate Himalaya ; from Murbee to Kumaok. 





