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sparse albo-pilosus. Folia et basalia et caulina longe petiolata, 
petiolo ad 12 cm. longo; lamina alte 3~5—fida, ambitu orbicularia, 
ad 8 cm. diametro, segmentis integris vel iterum ad mediam 
partem in lobos 2-3 lineares 1-3 cm. longos acutos divisis, 
supra minute pilosula, infra sparse pilosa ; folia superiora minora, 
sensim in bracteas integras vel 2-3-fidas ad 2 cm. longas 
transeuntia. Flores solitarii in apice ramulorum vel in scapo 
aphyllo brevi; pedunculi 4-5 cm. longi, adpresse albo-pilosi. 
Perianthium coeruleum extus minute albo-pilosulum. Sepalum 
posticum calcare 2 cm. longo minute pilosulo, stricto vel apice 
paulo curvato, quam pedunculus circ. 2—plo breviore atque a 
eo fere recto angulo abeunte praeditum; lamina circ. 2 cm. 
longa, oblonga ; lateralia 2 cm. longa, oblonga, obtusa. Petala 
superiora glabra cum calcare fere 3.5 cm. longa; petala inferiora 
oblique obovata, circ. 1.5 cm. longa, glabra, apice bifida. 
Carpella 5; ovaria albo-pilosa. 
“Plant of 3-8 inches. Flowers blue. On limestone drift 
on the western flank of the Lichiang Range. Lat. 27° 35’ N. 
636. 
Alt. 12,000 ft. August 1910.” G. Forrest. No. 6364. 
Very closely allied in habit, leaves and flowers to D. Beesianum, 
W.Sm., from which I have separated it with some hesitation 
by the characters given above. 
ROSACEAE. 
‘Spiraea calcicola,* W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species habitu Spivaeae arcuatae, Hook. {.; ramis longissime 
arcuatis rubris glabris, foliis minimis obovatis integris glabris 
conspicua. 
Frutex 60-150 cm. altus, ramulis superioribus circ. 30 cm. 
longis patentibus arcuatis angulatis rubris glabris nitidis sparse 
foliatis prope basin subnudis. Folia (superiora juvenilia tantum 
visa tempore florendi) 5—7 mm. longa, circ. 3 mm. lata, 3-5- 
fasciculata in ramulo brevissimo, folio axillante delapso, e gemma 
squamis membranaceis ciliatis praedité orta, obovata vel 
elliptica, apice rotundata, basi cuneata, primo vix petiolata, 
chartacea, integerrima, glabra, supra viridia nervis obscuris, 
infra pallidiora subtrinervia. Inflorescentiae oe cire. 
12 cm. longae, in apice ramulorum, e fasciculis 12-15, ¢ 
6-8-floris compositae ; flores arcte ce pedicellis circ. 
* A Spiraea at a i to the above has been grown (May 1913) by Bees 
Limited from seeds Mr. Forrest. The older leaves are sometimes 
ahs 2mm. Jong is developed and the lamina reaches 1 cm. long, with pelugsl 
eins. The — shoots are at the first sparsely pilose, soon becoming glabro 
aaa iit a red iui hue 
