9 49.  SAXITRAGACEZE, 
1 Astilbe Haw, 
Conspectus of. the. F'orimosan. Species. 
(1) Flowers larger, in dense spike-like panicles, lenves nearly glabrous. 
eXee|[o o «9e « aja] etch. A. mneeraftora, 
Flowers smaller, in looser paniecles, leaves hirsute or nearly glabrous. 
(^1. longicart. 
la 1. chinensis. 
Astilbe chinensis Fnawcu. et Sav. ; Havara Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 86, 
Har. Ganzan in the Morrison ranges. 
DisrRm.  Amurland, Japan, and central and northern China. 
'here is a little doubt about this being 24. chinensis WRaANCH. et SavaT, 
Astilbe longicarpa HavaraA Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 106 ; Herb, nearly 1 
m. high or higher, erect, stem glabrous. fadicalleaves yet unknown. | Cauline 
leaves long petiolate ternately pinnate, lateral leaflets ovate, terminal one 
aeuminately ovate duplieately serrate, serras acuminate, petiolulate. ftaeemes 
20 em. long, base 12 em. broad, pyramidal, racemules (lower ones) pedunculate, 
upper ones subsessile. — Flowers shortly pedieellate, bracteolate at the base of 
calyx. Calyx 1i mm. long, lobes ovate truneate.  Petals spathulately obovate 
nearly 1 mm. long, minutely apiculate at the apex, margin entire, Stamens 
10, very much exserted, 2-times longer than the petals. Carpels 2, distinct. 
Fruits cylindraceo-ovoid shortly rostrate, 4 mm. long including beaks. 
Har. '"Tappansha; Mt. Morrison. 
Astilbe macroflora Havar4 Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 86, et Mater. FI. 
Formos. p. 106. Herb, nearly 30 em. high, erect, base with seales which are 
membranaeeous, dark, broadly ovate, acuminate, numerous, obvallate. Rhizomes 
thiek, with numerous fibers, stems and petioles dark hairy. Radical leaves 
and eauline ones ternately-bipinnate, petioles neary equally long as the 
blades, long pilose at the nodes of the petioles, folioles ovate or oblong, base 
cordate, rarely slightly 3-lobed, 23 em.long 21 em. broad, sparingly hairy, 
above slightly pilose on the eost, biserrate, primary seratures lareer shortly 
