826 XL EOSACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Spirm. 



An erect shrub, with strict hoary branches. Leaves J-IJ in., usually elliptic and 

 acute at both ends, serratures or crenatures small ; nerves beneath faint; petiole 

 ^~\ in., slender. Corymbs dense-flowered; flowers small, ^ in. diam. Bi;pe carj>eh 

 minute, glabrous, half sunk in the villous calyx-tube. 



10, S- parvifolia, Bert riant. Nuov. Asiat. ii. 10, t. 4, glabrous, leave^ 

 broadly ovate or orbicular obtuse creuate glaucous beneath, petiole slender, corymbs 



«r 



in lax spreading rounded glabrous panicles with very slender peduncles and pedicels 

 flowers hermaphrodite, ripe carpels glabrous. T. cham3edrifolia,-Hi:>oA./. ^' Thwns. 

 Herh, Inch Or,,not ofLimi. ? S. vaccinifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. UOS,not of Dmu 



Western temperate Himalaya; Kishtwar alt. 6-8000 ft., T. Thomson, 

 A graceful shrub, with slender branches, and drooping floriferous branchlets, gla- 

 brous throughout or with minutely downy inflorescence. Leaves i^l in., very raxeiy 

 .ovate acute and serrate, usually broadly elliptic, thin and almost membranous, flat ; 

 nerves very indistinct on both surfaces. Inflorescence sometimes of many simple 

 corymbs w*ith long capillary pedicels (sometimes i in.) collected into lax broad pani- 

 cles that terminate drooping lateral branches ; in other specimens the corymbs are 

 branched as in ^S'. bella, &c. Flowers ^ in. diam. Eijn carpels very small,^ in., nal 

 sunk in the calyx-tube, glabrous. — Very near V. chamcedrifolia, L.,^ of Siberia, an 

 perhaps a form of that plant w-ith smaller flowers and laxer habit; it is the on y 

 Himalayan species with the ultimate branches of the inflorescence bearing corymbose 

 pedicels. Except that the leaves are acute, which is rarely the case in our P^^" '? . 

 figure of S. vaccinifolia in Loddiges admirably accords with it. Loddigcs says t 

 he raised it from seeds sent from Nepal. 



11. S. brahuica. Bom. Flor. Orient, ii. 690; a small excessively 

 T)ranched shrub, leaves minute obovate-cuneate entire or 3-5-lobed or -tootiie 

 tomentose, cor}Tiibs few-flowered, carpels minute. 



Wt-zTTRisTAN beyond Peshawur in N. W. India, alt. 5-80O0 ft., Stewart, —'Di^'^^'^^' 

 Beloochistan. . • t. -pd 



A very remarkable little species, forming a low shrub with slender stiff interlac^^ 

 sometimes spinescent branches. Leaves \-^ in., usually glabrous or puberulous a -)0 » 

 and white with dense pubescence beneath, Imt in some of Stock's Beluchistan spe^^ 

 mens nearly glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole very short. Floivers ^ in. diam., 

 shortly pcduiicled tomentose panicles. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. VFNusTL-LA, Kunth ^ Bovch. lad, Sem. Uort. BeroU 1848, 16, No. 27; ^^ff^ 

 Ann. ii. 521 ; S. pulchella, Krmze in LiniKEa, xx. 60; and S. kepalensis. 



Loddiges, are no doul)t forms of S. bclla. 



any part 

 is possiljly the garden S, canUmiensis, Lour. 



S. coRYMHOSA, Boxb. FL Ind. ii. 51 

 S. cANToxiKNSis, Loiir., a native of China only ( 

 not of the N. of India. 



-•our. T» /7 / 701 ^*" 



2. S. chamsedrifolia, LJ Wall, (^^^'^^^l^i 

 ina onlv fseo Benth. FL Hong Kong, ^^^} 



8. aVBVS, Linn. 



Creeping herbs or erect or sanuentose shrubs, almost ahvays V^^^-'-pjoiver^ 

 alternate, simple or compound ; stipules free or adnate to the petiole. ^^ ^ 

 in terminal and axillary corymbose panicles, rarely solitary, ^^^. f ^^oatiD? 

 CalyX'tuhe broad ; lobes 5, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens many. -Lnsh ^^^^^ 

 the calyx-tube. Carjyeh many, on a convex receptacle ; style s^i^^^^^^JgpongT 

 2, collateral, pendulous. Drupes many, 1-seeded, crowded upon a dry 



