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Spiraea (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 474-8, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

S. bullata (inflated). fl. dark pink or claret-coloured, in much-branched, dense, terminal corymbs; pedicels short, villous, bracteolate. Summer. l. sub-sessile, 1/2in. long, coriaceous. glabrous, dark green and bullate above, paler beneath, ovate-oblong, crenate; nerves pinnate, very prominent on the under surface. Branches erect, wiry, cylindric, densely clothed with reddish-brown down. Japan. A dwarf shrub, 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. high. (R. G. 1215). SYN. S. crispifolia (of gardens).

S. crispifolia (crisped-leaved). A garden synonym of S. bullata. S. gigantea (gigantic), of gardens. A robust-growing form of S. kamtchatica. S. kamtchatica (Kamtchatkan). fl. white, sweetly scented, larger than those of S. Ulmaria, corymbose; sepals reflexed, pilose; carpels very hairy. l. palmately lobed; upper cauline ones somewhat hastate or lanceolate; petioles appendiculate. h. 6ft. to 9ft. Kamtchatka and Behring's Island. S. k. himalensis (Himalayan). l. white-downy beneath; segments often acuminate. (B. R. 1841, 4.)