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SPIRAEA vacciniifolia. 

 Bilberry-leaved Spircea. 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAOYNIA. 



Nat. ord. RosACEJE. 



SPIRMA. Botanical Register, vol. \b.fol. 1222. 



S. vacciniifolia (Cham.edbyon) ; raraulis filiformibus pubescentibus, foliis 

 ovatis serrulatis v. duplicato-serratis basi integerrimisj subtus glaucis, 

 paniculis terminalibus dense corymbosis tomentosis, toro dentictdato. 



S. vacciniifolia. Bon prodr.Jl. nep. 227. DC. prodr. v. 2. 546. Bot. Reg. 

 1839. misc. no. 88. 



Frutex debilis, 1 -3 j)edes altus, ramis glabris, ramulis Jili/ormibus pube- 

 teentibus. Yolia. ovata, plana, serrata, nunc /ere inteffra, basi semper integer- 

 rima, subtus glauca, petiolo venisque primariis rufescentibus ; maxima polli- 

 caria. Panicidse terminates, tomentosce, corymboscB ; ramis in capitidum quasi 

 aggregatis. Calycis laciniae ovafce, acutce, petalis albis, subrotundis, emargi- 

 natis integrisve, concavis breviores. Stamina 20, petalis longiora, extra tori 

 tnarginem elevatmn, liberum, denticulatum inserta. Ovaria 5, libera. 



A Nepal shrub, introduced by Professor Royle, who pre- 

 sented its seeds to the Horticultural Society in the year 1835. 

 It is a very pretty species, almost as hardy as a Gueldres 

 Rose, its branches having been little injured even in the 

 severe winter of 1837-8 ; it grows from one to three feet 

 high, prefers an American Border, and strikes freely from 

 cuttings of the half-ripened wood. 



The Society possesses two varieties of it, of one of which 

 figs. 1. and 2. in the accompanying plate represent a leaf and 

 flower, while fig. 3. is a leaf of the other. Of these the latter 

 is much more slender and dwarf, and rather more tender than 

 the other, but there are scarcely any further difi'erences be- 

 tween them. 



The S. vacciniifolia of the Botanical Cabinet, t. 1403, is 

 apparently S. laxifiora, rather than the species now figured. 



March, 1840. 



