.Spircea.j li. eosackj}. . (J. D. Hooker.) 325 



latter is usually a more erect plant, with shorter stricter stouter stems, and closely 

 resembles S. callosa, differing chiefly in the apparently more or less dioecious flowers. 

 S. bella proper, on the other hand, is more slender, often nearly prostrate, with arched 

 tranches ; there are however all manner of intermediate forms, and some specimens 

 have both types of leaf. Flowers pink, or rarely white. Cah/x-lobes acute, tube 

 villous within. Stamens minute and deformed in the $ flowers, long in the 3 . 

 Ovaries small or absent, those of the $ flowers with long styles, of the ? short. 

 Bisk of broad incurved scales. Bipe carpels as in S. callosa. 



6. S. micrantlia, Hook.f. ; leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate doubly 

 inciso-serrate glaucous hairy beneath, cymes very broad lax and open, bracteoles 

 filiform often exceeding the calyx, flowers subdioecious, ripe carpels exposed 

 villous. S. caUosa var. macrophylla, Hook.f. ^ Thorns. Serb. Ind. Or. 



Eastern temperate Himalaya; Sikkim alt. 6-8000 ft. J.D.H.; Bhotan, alt. 

 ^800-10,000 ft., Griffith. 



Very similar to ihe fastigiata form of S. bella, but more lax in habit, leaves some- 

 times 7 in., very membranous or coriaceous. Flowers ^J in. diam., in very long 

 spreading panicles, pale coloured. Disk-glands large. Calyx-tube villous within. 

 Bracteoles filiform, often much produced. Bipe carpels much smaller than in i**. cal- 

 losa and bella, clothed densely with spreading hairs. 



7. S> canescens, Don Prodr. 227 ; softly tomeutose, branches stout 

 .arching, leaves small subsessile obovate or cuneate-obovate quite entire or ob- 

 tusely 3-6-toothed at the tip, corymbs small compound, flowers hermaphrodite, 

 ripe carpels half sunk in the calyx-tube villous. S. cuneifolia. Wall. Cat. 699 ; 

 Limdl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 59 ; Camb: in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 47, t. 57. 



Temperate Himalaya feom Kashmir to Kcmaon alt. 6-12,000 ft., and in Sikkim 

 alt. 10-12,000 ft. 



A shrub, 6 ft., with densely leafy branches. Leaves ^-f in., coriaceous, acute 



•or obtuse; nerves very oblique; petiole very short Corymbs very numerous, 



1-lJ in. diam. Flowers pale pink or white, J in. diam. Stamens not exceeding the 



■^letals. Disk with broad notched glands. Bipe carpels sunk half or whole way in the 



turbinate calyx-tube. 



8. S. arcuata, Hook. f. ; glabrate, branches stout arched, leaves small 

 petioled obovate obtusely 3-8-toothed or -lobed at the rounded top rarely entire 

 and acute, corymbs small compound puberulous, flowers hermaphrodite, i ripe 

 carpels wholly exserted glabrous shining. S. canescens, var. glabra. Herb. Ind. 

 Or. H.f.SfT. 



Sikkim Himalaya, subalpine; Yemutong and Laehoong, alt. 12-14,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. ; Jongrj, C. B. Clarke. 



A small woody ramous shrub, with very stout horizontal arching glabrous dark 

 ■brown shining deeply grooved branches, flowering branches very short. Leaves J in., 

 .glabrous or nearly so, narrowed into a slender petiole. Corymbs dense-flowered. 

 Flowers A in. diam., red. Stamens not exceeding the petal. Disk with broad notched 

 glands. Bipe carpels not at all sunk in the turbinate very short calyx-tube. — Closely 

 allied to S. canescens, but more robust and glabrate, with more jjetioled leaves, larger 

 red flowers and very different fruit. 



9. S. vaccinifolia, Don Prodr. 227; leaves small petioled ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate acute or obtuse serrate or crenate glaucous and hoary be- 

 neath, corymbs much branched tomentose, flowers hermaphrodite, ripe carpels 

 glabrous. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 60; 1840, t. 17. S. laxiflora, 

 lAndl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 60 ; Undl. Sr Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 98, fig. 

 183. S. rhamnifolia, Wall. Cat. 700. 



Western temperate Himalaya ; from Mubbee to Kumaon. 



