Primepia.] li. kosace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 323 



,5naerted on the mouth of the calyx-tuhe, filaments short ; anther-osUa often 

 unequal, separated by a hroad connective. Carpel 1, seaaile ; style basal, 

 .ascending,, stigma capitate ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Drupe obliquely 

 elipsoid or cylindric, with the remains of the style at its base ; epioarp thin ; 

 ■stone coriaceous, smooth. Seed erect, cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle inferior. 



1. P. utills, Moyle El. 206, t. 38, f. 1 ; Srandis For. Flor. 196 ; WaU. 

 ^Cat. 8554. 



Dry rocky hills on the 'temperate Himalayas, alt. 4-8000 ft., from Hazaea to 

 SiKKiM ascending to 9000 ft., and Bhotan; Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft. 



A shrub, 3-5 ft. ; branehlets green, soft, pubescent when young ; pith septate. 

 Leaves 1-5 in., coriaceous, acuminate, entire or serrate. Flowers ^ in. diam., white, 

 usually opening in autumn. Drupes J-§ in. purple^ subtended by the withered 

 calyx, 



7. SFXXtSIA, Linn. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or compound ; stipules 

 free or adnate to the petiole, rarely 0. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, 

 white or red. Calyx persistent, lobes 4-5, imbricate or valvate in bud. Petals 

 4-5. Stamens 20-60, filamente free or connate below. Disk fleshy, often 

 Tiairy. Carpels 5 or more, free or connate below ; styles subterminal ; ovules 2 

 or more, pendulous. Follicles 5 or more, few-seeded. — ^Distkib. Temperate and 

 ■cold regions of the N. hemisphere ; species 50. 



Sect. I. ITImaria. Herbs. Leaves pinnatisect. Disk obsolete. Car- 

 pels free ; ovules 2. 



1. S. vestita, Wall. MSS. ; lateral leaflets small or 0, terminal very 

 large acutely palmately 3-5-lobed, stipules ^orbicular, cymes proliferous. 

 S. Kamtschatica, Wall. Cat. 704 (not of PaUas). S. Kamtschatica, var. 

 bimalensis, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1841, t. 4. 



Western temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kuhaon, alt. 7-12,000 ft. — 

 DisTBiB. Kamtschatka. 



A herb, with perennial root, 1-1 J ft., pubescent except the leaves above. Leaves 

 ■sometimes hoary with thick white toraentum beneath, lateral lobes very variable, 

 |-14 in., sessile, ovate, acutely toothed; terminal lobe 2-6 in. diam., palmately 

 'S-S-lobed; lobes acuminate, acutely lobulate and toothed. Cymes, oblong, much 

 branched, very many-flowered. Flowers white, J in. diam. Calyx small, lobes 

 •obtuse. Petals oblong-orbicular. Carpels many, villous, 2-ovuled. — Very similar 

 indeed to S. Kamtschatica, a plant confined to the country whose name it bears, and 

 to Mantchuria, but quite distinct by the stipules. 



Sect. II. Aruncus. Dicecious herbs. Leaves triternately pinnate. Disk 

 "tumid. Carpels free ; ovules many. 



2. S. Aruncus, LAnn. ; Led. Fl. Ross. ii. 16 ; leaflets ovate caudate- 

 acuminate acutely doubly-serrate glabrous or silky beneath, stipules obsolete, 

 •cymes panicled pubescent. Pallas Flor. Ross. t. 26 ; JSoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 690. 

 Don Prodr. 338. S. triternata. Wall. Cat. 706. 



Western and Central temperate Himalaya; from Siemoee, alt. 10,000 ft., T. 

 Thomson, to Nepal, WaUich. — Distbib. From West Europe to Kamtschatka and 

 Mautchm-ia, Japan and E. and W. N. America. 



A slender herb, 2-4 ft., with stout perennial rootstock. Leaves with long primary 

 and secondary petioles, petiolules short ; leaflets 1-2 in. (1-10 in. in Japan specimens) 

 lather membranous. Flowers dense, white, J in. diam. Calyx-tube turbinate, lobes 



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