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at present an erect bush, with downy angular arching 

 stems, from which proceed numerous short, stiff branches, 

 terminated by close corymbose panicles of downy white 

 flowers. The petals are round, entire, and nearly flat. The 

 leaves are small, thick, downy, wedge-sliaped, and either 

 crenated near the point or undivided ; they are bright green 

 on the upper side, and glaucous beneath, with nothing of a 

 canescent ajipearance, which is only visible when they are 

 dried ; wherefore, independently oi" all other reasons, Dr. 

 Wallich's name is to be preferred to that of Professor Don. 



88. SPIR^A vaccinllfolia. Do7i prodr. 227. DC. prodr. 2. 546. 



This has also been obtained from the same quarter as the 

 last ; and is equally hardy. It forms a small shrub, with 

 small brown, nearly smooth branches, leaves ovate, serrated, 

 sometimes uneqiially, light green above, glaucous beneath, 

 and small compact corymbose downy panicles of white 

 flowers, with Hat roundish petals. 



89. SPIRiEA Inxlfiora ; fruticosa, ramis debilibus teretibus velutinis, foliis 

 glabris ovatis creiiatis longe petiolatis subtils glaucis, paiiiculis laxis villosis, 

 petalis reflexis. 



With the two last was received this third species, which 

 has hitherto been undescribed. It resembles S. vacciniifolia 

 in the form of the leaves, and the colour of their underside, 

 but they are long-stalked and rather glaucous above, and the 

 flowers are arranged in large, loose, shaggy panicles ; the 

 petals are moreover reflexed. The species diff'ers from S. 

 fastigiata. Wall, in the leaves having much longer stalks, 

 being more ovate, with crenatures rather than taper-pointed 

 serratures, and in the panicles being much more lax. 



90. MEDIC AGO clypeata; foliolis rliombeis obovatis apiculatis versus aplcera 



denticulatls, stipulls pinnatifidis, pedunculis subtrlfloris, leguminibus depres- 

 sis biconvexis peiitacyclis venosis margine tenuibus lavibus. 



Quite a new form of Medicago, allied to M. rugosa, im- 

 ported from the north of India by the East India Company. 

 It has no beauty, but it is curious on account of the singular 

 form of the fruit, which approaches in appearance those 

 species called " Snails" in the seed-shops. 



