SPIRiEA Kamtchatica, var. himalensis. 



Himalayan form of the Kamtchatka Meadow-sweet. 



ICOSANDRIA PENTAOYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Rosacea. 

 SPIEJEA. Botanical Register, vol. IG.fol. 13G5. 



Sect. VI. Ulmaria. DC. Prodr. 2. 545. 



Torus obsoletus. Stylus clavatus retroflexus. Ovulu 2, circa rnediam ovarii 

 suturam affixa, appensa. Carpella ovario vix duplo raajora, erecta, raro 



contorta. Flores liermaphroditi, cymoso-umbellati. Folia piunati- 



secta, stipulata. Herbee. DC. Prodr. I. c. 



S. Kamtchatica ; foliis simpliciter palmatis, superioribus subhastatis v. lan- 

 ceolatis, petiobs appendiculatis, floribus corymbosis, sepalis reflexis 

 pilosis, carpellis hirsutissimis parallelis, stylo subcapitato. DC. I. c. 



/3. himalensis; fobis subtus toraentosis ; laciniis ssepiiis acuruinatis. 



So many European forms of vegetation occur in the 

 Himalayan mountains, that to find there a plant very like our 

 British " Queen of the Meadows" (S. ulmaria) excites no 

 surprise. The plant now figured is not however exactlv that 

 species, but is very nearly allied to it, apparently identical 

 with a Kamtchatka species, from which it scarcely seems to 

 differ except in having the leaves white with down under- 

 neath ; a circumstance of no consequence, because S. ulmaria 

 itself varies with leaves both downy and smooth underneath. 



Upon comparing wild specimens from Dr. Royle and 

 Dr. Wallich, with others from Kamtchatka, it is found that 

 in addition to the smoothness of the latter the segments of the 

 leaves are rather less acuminate. 



Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



A hardy perennial, requiring no more care and about the 

 same treatment as the common Spiraea Filipendula, or Ulma- 



