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Bekbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 

 Leaflets Many. 

 Petals Similar. 



Spiraea aruncus, 

 Meadow sweet. 



KOSACB^. 



F. B. I. ii. 32.3 



large, perennial rootstock, shrub-like, smoothish ; 

 leaves 6-12 in., 2 to 3-pinnate, long primary and 

 secondary leaf-stalks, leaflet-stalks sliort, stipules 

 rudimentary, leaflets usually in threes, 1-3 in. long, 

 Himalaya, 8-10,000 ft. ovate, sharply and irregularly toothed, narrowed 

 Hattu (Collett). jnto a tail-like tip ; flowers l-\ in., many, white, one 



sexual, male and female on different plants, in long 

 slender velvety branching racemes, calyx persistent, 

 lobes 5, oblong, ovate, petals 5, orbicular, stamens 

 20 or more, sometimes united below, styles 5 or more, 

 nearly terminal; follicles 6 or more, swollen, smooth, 

 shining, seeds few. This plant is often mistaken 

 for Astilbe rivularis, but the latter has no petals. 



la albif olia, 



KOSACB^. 



F. B. I. ii. 347. 

 Himalaya, 8-10,000 ft. 

 Hattu, Bhagi (Collett). 



small, perennial, rootstock stout, stems several, 

 slender, zigzag, velvety, branched ; leaves 2-4 in., 

 pinnate, stalk very slender, stipules ^-f in., sheath- 

 ing, loose, brown, short-pointed, united for half 

 their length to the stalk, leaflets 5-9, |-1 in., ovate, 

 deeply and sharply toothed, lateral leaflets dimi- 

 nishing from the uppermost pair downwards, green, 

 velvety above, white-felted beneath ; flowers \ in. 

 diam., yellow, solitary on slender axillary stalks, 

 1-2 in., calyx persistent, tube shallow with 5 lobes, 

 alternating with 5 bracteoles, white-felted, lobes 

 triangular, bracteoles linear-oblong, petals 5, 

 oblong, shorter than the calyx lobes, stamens 5, 

 styles many, achenes many forming a head, hairy, 

 covered by the calyx lobes, large, deeply furrowed, 

 receptacle felted. 



small, perennial, rootstock stout, stem leafy, 

 softly silky ; leaves 2-8 in., pinnate, stalk stout, 

 lower stipules dry, thin, upper leafy, toothed or 

 lobed, leaflets many, in large and small pairs alter- 

 nately, decreasing in size from above downwards,' 

 Mashobra (Collett). ovate, sharply toothed, terminal le aflet 1-1^ in. 



Potentilla fulgens, 



RoSACEiE. 



F. B. I. ii. 165. 

 Himalaya, 6-9,000 ft. 

 Simla. 



