324 II. EOSACKS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Spircea. 



oblong- ovate. Petals orbicular. Carpds 6-8, tumid, glabrous and shining -when 

 ripe. The Indian form has smaller and more numerous carpels than the European. 



Sect. III. Sorbaria. Shrubs. Leaves pinnate. Disk adnate to the- 

 calyx-tube. Carpels connate below ; ovules many. 



3. S. sorbifolia, Linn. ; Led. Fl. Ross. ii. 15 ; leaflets 6-9 pair sessile^ 

 lanceolate- or linear-oblong acuminate doubly serrate glabrous or hairy' beneath, 

 stipules linear-subulate, cymes in branched panicles. Pali. Flor. Moss. t. 24, 25, 

 S. Lindleyana, Wall. Cat. 703 ; lAndl. in Bat. Reg. t. 33. 



Western temperate Himalayas; from Kcnawtje to Ktthaon, alt. 7-10,000 ft. — 

 DisTEiB. Altai Mts. to N. China and Japan. 



A taU shrub, glabrous or with soft hairs in the young parts, leaflets beneath and 

 inflorescence. Leaves 8-12 in. ; leaflets 2-4 in., sessile, gradually narrowed from 

 near the usually rounded base to the long tip ; terminal sometimes lobed at the "base; 

 petiole oylindric. Flowers white, J in. diam. Calyx-tube hemispheric; lobes 

 rounded. Petals orbicular. Carpels 5, glabrous or pubescent; ripe oblong, de- 

 hiscing dorsally. 



Sect. IV. CliamsBdrya. Shrubs. Leaves simple. Disk adnate to th& 

 calyx-tube, glandular. Carpels free ; ovules many. 



4. S. callosa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 209 ; leaves oblong-ovate or -lanceolate 

 acuminate doubly inciso-serrate glaucous and pubescent or glabrate beneath, 

 cymes much branched pubescent, flowers hermaphrodite, bracteoles equalling 

 the calyx, ripe carpels exposed glabrate. Lindl. Sr Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 118, 

 fig. 191. S. caUoaa, var. e. robusta. Hook. f. ^r Thorns. Herb. Lnd. Or. S. For- 

 tuni. Planch, in Flor. des Serres, ix. 871 ; Lindl. ^ Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 113, 

 with a woodcut ; Bot. Mag. t. 5164. 



Khasia Mts. at Kullung rock, and the Boga Panee, alt. S-6000 ft., Simmons, J. 

 D. H.^ T. T.— DisTRiB. N. China, Japan. 



An erect or straggUng shrub, with pubescent or tomentose or glabrate striate branches. 

 Leaves 1-4 in., glabrous and glaucous beneath, or more or less pubescent or tomentose, 

 those on young twigs sometimes rhomboid-ovate ; petiole very short. Mowers 

 |— ^ in. diam., in very open corymbose spreading cymes, pale or deep rose-red, Ca- 

 lyx-ttibe obconic ; lobes triangular-ovate, pubescent. Petals orbicular. Disk-glatids 

 prominent. Bipe carpels ^ in., dark brown, glabrous, shining ; styles nearly as long, 

 as the valves. — I have described this from Xhasia specimens, which are usually to- 

 mentose on the under surface of the leaf, but some specimens are as glabrous as the 

 Japanese. It is remarkable that neither Jenkins, WaUich, nor Griffith had it from 

 the Ehasia Mts. 



5. S. bella, StTns, Bot. Mag. t. 2426; leaves broadly oblong ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate doubly iuciso-serrate or crenate glaucous and glabrate or pu- 

 bescent beneath, cymes much branched pubescent, flowers subdioecious, bracteoles 

 equalling the calyx, ripe carpels exposed glabrate. Don Prodr. 227 ; Kifmze 

 m Linncea, xx. 60. S. callosa and fastigiata. Wall. Cat. 7(f7, 708. S. glauca 

 and steUata, Wall. MSS. S. expansa, Wall. Cat. 702. 



Temperate Himalaya from Siemobe alt. 7-10,000 ft,, to SnociM and Bhotan, alt, 

 «-12,000 ft. 



A very variable plant, unless, as is probable, two species may be confounded 

 imder the above description, which however have not been distinguished by any bo- 

 tanist. — A shrub 2-6 ft. ; branches erect or inclined or horizontal. Leaves \-'2 in., 

 glaucous beneath and usually glabrate, but sometimes pubescent. The extreme forms 

 are those of 8. bella proper (caKosa, Wall, not Thunb.) in which they are broad ovate 

 or oblong obtusely toothed towards the apex only, and ot fastigiata. Wall., in which 

 they are much larger ovate-lanceolate acuminate and inciso-serrate throughout ; the 



