PLANTS OF THE PUNJAB. 1059 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Compound Leaves. 



Leaflets Many. 



Petals None. 



Thalictrum reniforme, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate Exstipulate, Com- 



pound. 



Thalictrum Javanicum, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Com- 



pound. 



Thalictrum folioiosum, see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Com- 



pound. 



Astilbe rivularis, 



.SAXirRAGACE.E. 



F. B. I. ii. 389. 

 Himalaya, 4-9,000 ft. 

 :Simla, Mashobra (Col- 



lett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Dalhousie. 



large, rootstock perennial, hairy ; leaves 6-18 in., 

 irregularly 2-pinnate, stipules large, thin, united to 

 the leaf stalk, sheathing, base of leaf stalk enlarged, 

 hairy, leaflets 1-4 in., ovate, sometimes lobed^ heart- 

 shaped at the base, sharply toothed, long-pointed, 

 smooth above, minutely bristly beneath along the 

 midrib and nerves ; flowers very small, greenish- 

 yellow, sometimes one sexual in spicate racemes, 

 forming a large terminal branching raceme, 12-24 

 in. long, stalk of raceme softly hairy, calyx bell- 

 shaped, united to the base of the ovary, lobes 5, 

 deeply divided, persistent, petals none, stamens 5, 

 opposite the sepals, styles 2; capsule small 2 beaked, 

 seeds minute, many, narrow tailed at both ends, 

 sometimes mistaken for Spircea Aruncus, whose fruit 

 has 3-4 beaks. 



(7b he continued.) 



