GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
113 
f^.twuv"that ,t'twrf ' '''"1 ''' r'r ' '"" ^'^^^ '"''^^'""^^'^* ^'^ 1-- -^ ^'-'. -d --P3 round the ovule in 
SUCH a wdy that its two edges cannot meet on the uiiJer-sidf^ nf th^ nv..io . *k^ . j • / . ^ "^® '" 
rr :^5^r^;t r rfr 7r r 'TrS->r "'^^^^^^^^^^ Ltrc-^™^.: 
base 
final condition. 
a^ree with Gnetum in this particular. 
^ a bmnch with male and female flowers, natural size; B, various details of the 
fructification more or less magnified ; I, a spike of male flowers ; 2, a male or anther apart ; 3, a scale seen 
4 a npe frmt ; 5, a seed show.ng the 2 slight elevations upon the surface, and the remains of the ragged 
tlie base.— /ourn. of ffort Soc, vol vi. *^S«" 1 
381 Spir^a callosa. 77.?.;/^^r^. A handsome, hardy, deciduous shrub, with briUiunt rose- 
coloured flo^yers. Native of the North of China and Japan. Flowers iu July and August. 
, Me 
appearance 
(Rg. 191.) 
tint of its petals, especially when the flower-buds first begin to expand. 
are dark-green 
ring to both ends, but entire near the base ; they have a strong tendency to 
serratures are tipped with little brown callosities. On the under side the leaves 
are arranged m branched cymes, which usually grow in pairs from the same mdp 
narrow leaf. 
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