ROSACEA 



BEAUTIFUL NEPAL SPIRAEA, Spiraea bella. 



Gardens. The genus Spiraea contains many hardy shrubs, of which about 

 sixty are given as being cultivated at Kew. They thrive well in open sunny 

 borders or shrubberies. Straggly shoots should be cut back moderately short 

 directly after flowering. Propagation is carried on by means of cuttings of 

 young shoots inserted in sandy soil under hand-light or in a frame in shade 

 in summer; also by offsets planted in autumn. May, June. 



Flowers rosy-red, unisexual, in a loose terminal corymbose cyme, pubescent ; 

 Calyx lobes deflexed, persistent ; Stamens indefinite, on a fleshy disk ; disk 

 adnate to calyx ; Carpels 5 ; Fruit an etserio of follicles, 5 reddish, shining 

 glabrous carpels, ripe in September. 



Leaves alternate, ovate, sharply serrated, acute, light green, glabrous on 

 upper surface, glaucous beneath, principal veins on underside pubescent, 

 ^-2 ins. long, petioles long. 



A deciduous shrub, 3-4 ft. ; Stems flexuose, glabrous, red ; Branches loose, 

 slender, spreading, downy. 



Native of Nepal and Bhootam ; introduced 1820. 



Spircea bullata. 



Gardens, rockeries. A good dwarf shrub for the rock-garden or sunny 

 banks. July. 



Flowers rosy-carmine, in a terminal corymb, much branched ; pedicels 

 short, villous ; bracteolate ; Fruit an etrerio of follicles. 



Leaves alternate, sub-sessile, ovate-oblong, crenate, dark green and bullate 

 above, paler beneath, coriaceous, glabrous, nerves pinnate, prominent on 

 underside. 



A deciduous shrub, 1-1 J ft. ; Branches erect, wiry, cylindrical, red-brown 

 down. 



Native of Japan. Syns. S. crispa, S. crispifolia. Specific name refers 



to the blistered or puckered leaves (L. bulla, a bubble). 



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