570 



PHILADELPHUS grandifloras. 



-Larg€-Jiowei'ed Philadelphius, 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Myrti (MYRTACEJi). Jumeu geii. 322. Div. I. Fiores in 

 foliorum axillis aut id pedunculis multifloris oppositi. Folia plerumqtte oppo- 

 sita et punctata. 



PHILADELPHUS. Cal. turbinatus 4-fidus. Petala 4. Stigma 4- 

 fidum. Cm>s. ovata seminifera 4-Iocularis 4-valvis polysperma scniinibus 

 minutis. rrulices aut arbuscuUe ; folia opposita non punctata ; Jtores termi- 

 nale$ corymbosi ant oppositi subspicati, singuli bracteolati, interd^ b-petali 

 um fructu b-loculari. P. corooarii stylus maturascente fructu 4-partilus. 

 Juss. I. c. 325. 



P. grand^orus, fotiis ovatis acuminatis denticutatis, axillis Tenaniiu subtil 

 fasciculato-pilosis, calycis laciniis acuminatis, stylo staminibus longiore 

 indiriso, sbgmatibus 4-lineanbus. Pursk amer. sept. 1. 329. 



Philadelphus grandiflorus. WiUd. enum. 1. 511. Nttttallgen. 1. 301. 



Philadelphus inodorus. Barton's elem. dot. (ed. tond.) app. 28. t. 18. ^g. 1 ? 

 (nan. aHor«m). 



Said by Pursh to grow on river banks in South Carolina 

 and Georgia. It has been for some time in our gardens; 

 but we are not aware of the precise period when introduced. 

 It is a hardy ornamental shrub. The native samples in the 

 Banksian Herbanuui, under the title imdorus, we suspect 

 belong to the present species. 



Grandijttn-us has been very generally confounded in our 

 gardens with inodortis, which is a scarcer, less robust, and 

 more tender shrub, with a narrow foliage of a lighter green 

 colour than in the present. The leaves in grand! flurus are of a 

 broader shorter ovate form, conspicuously toothed and more 

 fully furred underneath than in the others the very young 

 ones indeed are very thickly furred underneath, so as to look 

 white, which is never the case in inodorm. The leaves of tlie 

 young branches, on strong-groiving plants, are nearly orbi- 



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