326 LI. KOSACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



An erect shrub, with strict hoary branches. Leaves -! in., usually elliptic and 

 acute at both ends, serratures or crenatures small ; nerves beneath faint ; petiole 

 - in., slender. Corymbs dense-flowered ; flowers small, in. diam. Ripe carpels 

 minute, glabrous, half sunk in the villous calyx-tube. 



10. S. parvf folia, Bert. Plant. Nuov. Asiat. ii. 10, t. 4, glabrous, leaves 

 broadly ovate or orbicular obtuse crenate glaucous beneath, petiole slender, corymbs 

 in lax spreading rounded glabrous panicles with very slender peduncles and pedicels, 

 flowers hermaphrodite, ripe carpels glabrous. T. chamaedrifolia,jHbo^./. $ Thorns. 

 Herb. Ind. Or., not of Linn. ? S. vaccinifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1. 1403, wo^ of Don. 



Western temperate Himalaya; KISHTWAR alt. 6-8000 ft., T. TJwmson. 



A graceful shrub, with slender branches, and drooping floriferous branchlets, gla- 

 brous throughout or with minutely downy inflorescence. Leaves f-1 in., very rarely 

 ovate acute and serrate, usually broadly elliptic, thin and almost membranous, flat ; 

 nerves very indistinct on both surfaces. Inflorescence sometimes of many simple 

 corymbs with long capillary pedicels (sometimes in.) collected into lax broad pani- 

 cles that terminate drooping lateral branches ; in other specimens the corymbs are 

 branched as in S. bella, &c. Flowers in. diam. Ripe carpels very small, ^ in., half 

 sunk in the calyx -tube, glabrous. Very near V. chamcedrifolia, L., of Siberia, and 

 perhaps a form of that plant with smaller flowers and laxer habit ; it is the only 

 Himalayan species with the ultimate branches of the inflorescence bearing corymbose 

 pedicels. Except that the leaves are acute, which is rarely the case in our plant, the 

 figure of 8. vaccinifolia in Loddiges admirably accords with it. Loddiges says that 

 he raised it from seeds sent from Nepal. 



11. S. brahuica, Boies. Flor. Orient, ii. 690 ; a small excessively 

 branched shrub, leaves minute obovate-cuneate entire or 3-5-lobed or -toothed 

 tomentose, corymbs few-flowered, carpels minute. 



WUZURISTAN beyond Peshawur in N. W. India, alt. 5-8000 ft., Stewart. DISTRIB* 

 Beloochistan. 



A very remarkable little species, forming a low sh'rub with slender stiff interlaced 

 sometimes spinescent branches. Leaves ^-^ in., usually glabrous or puberulous above, 

 and white with dense pubescence beneath, but in some of Stock's Beluchistan speci- 

 mens nearly glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole very short. Flowers in. diam., in 

 shortly peduncled tomentose panicles. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. VFNUSTUIA, KunthSf Sotich. Ind. Sem. Hort. BeroL, 1848, 16, No.*27 ; Walp. 

 Ann. ii. 521 ; S. PULCHELLA, Kunze in Linnaa, xx. 60 ; and S. NEPALENSIS, Hort. 

 Loddiges, are no doubt forms of S. bella. 



S. NUTANS, Koyle (argentea, Loudon), is unknown. 



S. C(EBULESCENS, Poir. Diet. vii. 350 ; Camb. Monog. in Ann. Sc. Nat. i. 374 ; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 544, brought from India by Sonnerat, with axillary panicles, is unknown, 

 but as Sonnerat was never in any part of India where Spiraea is indigenous, his plant 

 is possibly the garden S. cantoniensis, Lour. 



S. CORYMBOSA, Roxb. Fl. Ind) ii. 512^ S. chamsedrifolia, L. ? Wall. Cat. 701, is 

 S. CANTONIENSIS, Lour., a native of China only (see Benth. Fl. Hong Kong, 105) and 

 not of the N. of India. 



8. It US US, Li mi. 



Creeping herbs or erect or sannentose shrubs, almost always prickly. Leaves 

 alternate, simple or compound ; stipules free *r adnate to the petiole. Flowers 

 in terminal and axillary corymbose panicles, rarely solitary, white or red. 

 Calyx-tube broad ; lobes 5, persistent. Petals 5. Stamens many. Disk coating 

 the calyx-tube. Carpels many, on a convex receptacle ; style subterminal ; ovules 

 2, collateral, pendulous. Di'upes many, 1-seeded, crowded upon a dry or spongy 



