Hydrangea.'] 



Lii. SAXiFRAGACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) ♦ 



405 



upper surface with scattered minute hairs, lower microscopically mealy punctate and 

 deDsely clothed with long white hairs ; petiole of the uppermost leaves not at all or 

 but slightly winged. Cori/7nb hirsute. Sepals of the radiate flowers usually serrate 

 or toothed, sometimes quite entire. Styles not rarely 4, rarely 2, Capsule hemisphe- 

 nc, obscurely trigonous or subquadrate. 



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Capmle crowned tvithadise formed by the base of the normally 3 styles, 

 petals expanding. 



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4. K. vestita, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 49; leaves densely pubescent- 

 tomentose beneath, styles short. Wall. Cat. 440 a. ; DC. Pi-odr. iv. 14, ex- 

 cludmg var. /3. ; H.f. ^ T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 75 ; MoA-im. in Mem. Acai. 

 ^terih. X. No. 16. p. 10. IL heteromalla, Bon Prodr. 211 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 15. 

 H. Khasiana, H.f. 8r T. in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 76. 



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_ Temperate Himalaya from Bhotan to Kumaon, alt. 8000-10,000 ft.; frequent. 

 AHAsiA Mts., alt. 4500-5500 ft. 



Arborescent, 15 ft. high; branchlets hairy. Leaves 4-9 in., ovate or oblong, 

 ^^^^^^' ^^S6 sometimes cordate ; upper surface with scattered hairs, lower tessellated 

 and densely clothed with white densely papillose hairs. Corymb hirsute. Sepals of 

 tne radiate flowers entire. Styles occasionally 4. 



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0. H. stylosa, H.f. ^ T. in Jomvi. Linn. Soc. ii. 75; leaves glabrous, 

 nerves beneath pubescent, styles long subulate. 



; SiKKiM HiMATATA, alt. 8000 ft., Lachen, J. D. U. 



., ■^^'^wcAes and branchlets puberulous. Leaves 2 in., serrate, elliptic, narrowed at 

 ^^ base. Corymb pilose. Sepals of the radiate flowers crenate-dentate. 





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DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 



H. ANOMALA, Don Prodv, 211 ; DC, Prodr. iv. 15 ; leaves sinuate-crenate nearly 

 Scabrous ovate rounded at the base 4 in., radiate flowers 0.— Nipal.— Of this no spe- 

 "men exists at Kew. Perhaps it is but a synonym of H. altissima. H. f. & T. {in 



m^' '^'""- ^^' "• P- 76) reduce it to Dichroa, but that has not ovate leaves rounded 

 at the base. 



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8. 



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with the habit of Viburnum and decussate 



ate-oblons: 



Petals 4 or 5, val- 

 Ovary inferior, 



v;^, iaiiing oft m a cap. Stamens 8 or lU, subepigynous. uvaiy inienor, 

 r^^elled ; style thick, surmounted by a thicker truncate pyramid the 4-G 

 angles of which are stigmatic ; ovules numerous, elongate, pendulous. Seefh 

 |«amature) numerous, testa an elongate cylindric sack at the apex of winch 

 "^ the nucleus. 



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vlbumoides, //. /. 



Mem. Ann ft. Pt>f.fyr»h t. 



jo^^su Mts., alt. ^iOOO-oOOQ ft. ; Griffith; T. Lohh ; Nunklow, J.D.H. # Ihom- 



:Z--UiSTKjB. Japan, Formosa. ,. , 



^^<^ves 3-5 in. Panicle with a few linear-lanceolate bracts \ m. long. Flowers 



•"i ; .filaments elongate, i-f in. long. 



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