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Don, the Spirea barbata of Wallich, but. not of Lindley,) is 
probably polygamo-dicecious, like our own species; at least, the 
flowers are apetalous in a fragment given me by Prof. Royle, and 
the stamens mostly equal in number to the sepals. I have no 
doubt that these three species belong to a single and very natu- 
ral genus, for which the name of Asti/be must be retained ; for I 
_ see neither justice nor reason in superseding the prior name, as 
suggested by Endlicher,* on account of the incompleteness of 
the character, which correctly describes one state, at — of the 
plant intended, by the subsequent Hoteia, the characterof which 
ney sonpenianae when applied to the whole genus.+ ‘The 
* « Si, quod nunc pecan ae dog Hoteia et Astilbe, Don, revera plant conge- 
neres , posterius i re suo descriptum Mee imendum, et prius egre- 
 stabilitum parvanaiies erit.”” Endl. Gen. Suppl. p. 1416. 
. + Since the above remarks were. —— :: cali seen in the Annales des Sci- 
ences Naturelles for Jandary, 1841, Hin Deeeishe s additional Vote sur les genres 
tilbe et see in which the tw o genera are still held to be distinct, the latter in- 
cluding th Ameri ican plant, as originally proposed by this author. The char- 
acters os nae to both) are merely these: 
a Flores hermaphroditi, vel sepe stam. abortu feeminei. Petala nulla. 
stamina 5 
~Horria. ict sdrian oF -Petala 5, yi Stamina a 10, quingue pe- 
aia pecs a > 
mesg si ea sia Astilbe sinbitiiaie is more or less diwcio-polyga- 
us, the vie wl sped. already taken is certainly confirmed; and when this acute 
tad ier ke botanist becomes spaetied ° with the two states of the 
p , stamens of the original .4. are 
etin “ At aking ene mina 
sii -2 | ot 
is come to the s same colon. The lia 
may be thus expresse 
7 ASTILBE, Fk te Pon: Dorr. , Ge (Hotera, Morr. Y Ditercy 
“UA. rivoraris (Hamilton, Don) : floribus sepe dicecio-polygamis, calyce 4—5- 
partifo imo ovario tantum adnato, petalis (an sem per?) nullis, staminibus 4-5 
nune 8 (ex Don.)—Spirea barbata, Wall. cat. ; Camb. in Jacquem. bot. p. 48. t. 58 
x Decaisne. 
ES ae 
“Hab. in montibus Nepalensibus. 
“9. 1% DECANDRA xt gs) : floribus dicecio- -polygamis, calyce 5-partito i imo otario 
tantum adnato, (in pl. fert. subnullis), staminibns 
10 (in ph. fert.. aortinisveetigieste Arancus-var . hermaphr odita; Michz. penal 
biternata, ee Malmais. to34. Astilbe gas Rigs Torr. & Gray, fl. 
N. Amer.1. p. aes Hoteia DuSeata, Decaisne, in an - nat. (ser, 2.) 2 2. tid, 
hs 11 13, 7 7 Why 
— Mab. in bus Qurclines et Tenmdubin: 
78. sae piosacs floribus hermaphroditis, calyeis profunde quinquedili sais 
ae i ovari plete, petalis oblongo-spathulatis, staminibus 10.—Spirea. Pr z, 
Thunb. fl. Japon. - 2u1, non Linn. 8. barbata, Lindl. bot. reg. t. zi 
— ica, Mo _ & Decaisne, in ann. sci, nat, (ie s8y ah ne 
