324 LI. ROSACES. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Spircea, 



oblong- ovate. Petals orbicular. Carpels 6-8, tumid, glabrous and shining when 

 ripe. The Indian form has smaller and more numerous carpels than the European. 



SECT. III. Sorbaria. Shrubs. Leaves pinnate. Disk adnate to the- 

 calyx-tube. Carpels connate below ; ovules many. 



3. S. sorbifolia, Linn. ; Led. Fl. Ross. ii. 15; leaflets 6-9 pair sessile 

 lanceolate- or linear-oblong acuminate doubly serrate glabrous or hairy beneath r 

 stipules linear-subulate, cymes in branched panicles. Pall. Flor. Ross. t. 24, 25. 

 S. Lindleyana, Wall Cat. 703 ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 33. 



Western temperate Himalayas; from KTJNAWTTR to KTTMAON, alt. 7-10,000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Altai Mts. to N. China and Japan. 



A tall shrub, glabrous or with soft hairs in the young parts, leaflets beneath and 

 inflorescence. Leaves 8-12 in. ; leaflets 2-4 in., sessile, gradually narrowed from 

 near the usually rounded base to the long tip ; terminal sometimes lobed at the 'base ;, 

 petiole cylindric. Flowers white, in. diam. Calyx-tube hemispheric ; lobes 

 rounded. Petals orbicular. Carpels 5, glabrous or pubescent; ripe oblong, de- 

 hiscing dorsally. 



SECT. IV. Chamaedrya. Shrubs. Leaves simple. Disk adnate to the- 

 calyx-tube, glandular. Carpels free ; ovules many. 



4. S. callosa, Thunb. Fl.Jap. 209 ; leaves oblong-ovate or -lanceolate 

 acuminate doubly inciso-serrate glaucous and pubescent or glabrate beneath, 



res much branched pubescent, flowers hermaphrodite, bracteoles equalling 

 calyx, ripe carpels exposed glabrate. Lindl. 8f Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 113, 

 fig. 191. S. callosa, var. e. robusta, Hook. f. fy Thorns. Herb. Ind. Or. S. For- 

 tuni, Planch, in Flo?: des Set-res, ix. 871 ; Lindl. $ Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 113, 

 with a woodcut ; Bot. Mag. t, 5164. 



KHASIA MTS. at Kullung rock, and the Boga Panee, alt. 5-6000 ft., Simmons, J 

 D. H. 4- T. T. DISTRIB, N. China, Japan. 



An erect or straggling shrub, with pubescent or tomentose or glabrate striate branches. 

 Leaves 1-4 in., glabrous and glaucous beneath, or more or less pubescent or tomentose, 

 those on young twigs sometimes rhomboid-ovate ; petiole very short. Flowers 

 ^-^ in. diam., in very open corymbose spreading cymes, pale or deep rose-red, Ca- 

 lyx-tube obeonic ; lobes triangular-ovate, pubescent. Petals orbicular. DisJc-glands 

 prominent. Ripe carpels % in., dark brown, glabrous, shining; styles nearly as long, 

 as the valves. I have described this from Khasia specimens, which are usually to- 

 mentose on the under surface of the leaf, but some specimens are as glabrous as th& 

 Japanese. It is remarkable that neither Jenkins, Wallich, nor Griffith had it from 

 the Khasia Mts. 



5. S. bell a, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2426; leaves broadly oblong ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate doubly inciso-serrate or crenate glaucous and glabrate or pu- 

 "bescent beneath, cymes much branched pubescent, flowers subdioecious, bracteoles 

 equalling the calyx, ripe carpels exposed glabrate. Don Prodr. 227 ; Kunze 

 in Linnaa, xx. 60. S. callosa and fastigiata, Wall. Cat. 707, 708. S. glauca 

 and stellata, Wall. MSS. S. expansa, Wall. Cat. 702. 



Temperate Himalaya from] SIRMORE alt. 7-10,000 ft,, to SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 

 6-12,000 ft. 



A very variable plant, unless, as is probable, two species may be confounded 

 under the above description, which however have not been distinguished by any bo- 

 tanist. A shrub 2-6 ft. ; branches erect or inclined or horizontal. Leaves -2 in., 

 glaucous beneath and usually glabrate, but sometimes pubescent. The extreme form* 

 are those of S. bclla proper (calfosa, Wall, not Thunb.) in which they are broad ovate 

 or oblong obtusely toothed towards the apex only, and of fastigiata, Wall., in which 

 they are much larger ovate-lanceolate acuminate and inciso-serrate throughout ; the 



