LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 323 



inserted on the mouth of the calyx-tube, filaments short ; anther-calls often 

 unequal, separated by a broad connective. Carpel 1, sessile ; style basal, 

 ascending, stigma capitate ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Drupe obliquely 

 ellipsoid or cylindric, with the remains of the style at its base ; epicarp thin ; 

 stone coriaceous, smooth. Seed erect, cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle inferior. 



1. P. utilis, Royle III. 206, t. 38, f. 1 ; JSrandis For. Flor. 196 ; Watt. 

 Cat. 8554. 



Dry rocky hills on the temperate Himalayas, alt. 4-8000 ft., from HAZARA to 

 SIKKIM ascending to 9000 ft., and BHOTAN ; KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft. 



A shrub, 3-5 ft. ; branchlets green, soft, pubescent when young ; pith septate. 

 Leaves 1-5 in., coriaceous, acuminate, entire or serrate. Flowers in. diam., white, 

 usually opening in autumn. Drupes - in. purple, subtended by the withered 

 calyx. 



7. S FIRS: A, Linn. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or compound ; stipules 

 free or adnate to the petiole, rarely 0. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, 

 white or red. Calyx persistent, lobes 4-5, imbricate or valvate in bud. Petals 

 4-5. Stamens 20-60, filaments free or connate below. Disk fleshy, often 

 hairy. Carpels 5 or more, free or connate below ; styles subterminal ; ovules 2 

 or more, pendulous. Follicles 5 or more, few-seeded. DISTRIB. Temperate and 

 cold regions of the N. hemisphere ; species 50. 



SECT. I. Ulmaria. Herbs. Leaves pinnatisect. Disk obsolete. Car- 

 pels free ; ovules 2. 



1. S. vestita, Wall. MSS. ; lateral leaflets small or 0, terminal very 

 large acutely palmately 3-5-lobed, stipules ^-orbicular, cymes proliferous. 

 S. Kamtschatica, Wall. Cat. 704 (not of Pallas). S. Kamtschatica, var. 

 hirnalensis, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1841, t. 4. 



Western temperate Himalaya, from KASHMIR to KUMAON, alt. 7-12,000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Kamtschatka. 



A herb, with perennial root, 1-1 ft., pubescent except the leaves above. Leaves 

 sometimes hoary with thick white tomentum beneath, lateral lobes very variable, 

 g-l in., sessile, ovate, acutely toothed; terminal lobe 2-6 in. diam., palmately 

 3-5-lobed; lobes acuminate, acutely lobulate and toothed. Cymes oblong, much 

 branched, very many-flowered. Flowers white, \ in. diam. Calyx small, lobes 

 obtuse. Petals oblong-orbicular. Carpels many, villous, 2-ovuled. Very similar 

 indeed to S. Kamtschatica, a plant confined to the country whose name it bears, and 

 to Mantchuria, but quite distinct by the stipules. 



SECT. II. Aruncus. Dioecious herbs. Leaves triternately pinnate. Disk 

 tumid. Carpels free ; ovules many. 



2. S. Aruncus, Linn.-, Led. Fl. Ross. ii. 16; leaflets ovate caudate- 

 acuminate acutely doubly-serrate glabrous or silky beneath, stipules obsolete, 

 cymes panicled pubescent. Pallas Flor. Ross. t. 26 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 690. 

 'Don Prodr. 228. S. triternata, Wall. Cat. 706. 



Western and Central temperate Himalaya; from SIRMORE, alt. 10,000 ft., T. 

 Thomson, to NEPAL, Wattich. DISTRIB. From West Europe to Kamtschatka and 

 Mantchuria, Japan and E. and W. N. America. 



A slender herb, 2-4 ft., with stout perennial rootstock. Leaves with long primary 

 ^and secondary petioles, petiolules short ; leaflets 1-2 in. (1-10 in. in Japan specimens) 

 xather membranous. Flowers dense, white, \ in. diam. Calyx-tube turbinate, lobes 



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