67. caprifoliace^;. 869 



Weigela amabilis, Hort. ; Bot. Mag. t. 4893. 



Weigelaalba, Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1861, p. 331. 



Weigela Isalinse, Flore des Serres, t. 1445. 



Weigela amabilis striata, Flore des Serres, t. 1446. 



Chiult : cultivated in gardens {Bang e !), Jehol {David, 1798 !) ; 

 Siiingking : Kwandien and Hingjing {Boss I); Fokiex: Foo- 

 chow (Faber ! Tonnerre !), Amoy {Fortune, 25 !) ; Cobea : Soul 

 {Carles*); Corean Arciiipelago : Herschel Island {Oldham, 

 490!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Mandshuria. 



We have followed Maximowicz in the synonymy of this species, 

 but we have recorded only such Chinese specimens as we have 

 actually seen. It is not difficult to recognize D.florida among 

 the numerous cultivated and wild Japanese and Chinese speci- 

 mens of Diervilla that we find in herbaria ; but we are quite 

 unable to distinguish D.floribunda (versicolor), D. grandiflora, 

 and D. japonica {hortetisis) from each other, and other botanists 

 seem to have been equally perplexed, and to have variously 

 understood these so-called species. All the Chinese specimens 

 we have seen (except, perhaps, one from the Corea), which are 

 not referable to D.florida, are evidently of one species, though 

 we cannot determine what name it should bear ; but we choose 

 the following as the most appropriate, without attempting to 

 decide whether D. grandiflora and D. japonica should be reduced 

 to synonyms of it. 



2. Diervilla floribunda, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 73, t. 32 ; 

 Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xii. p. 485. 



Diervilla versicolor, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 1'i, t. 33, excl. syn. D. mul- 

 tiflora ; Lem. III. Hort. x. (1863), t. 380, ex Ma.vim. 



Anwhei : Wuhu {Bullock, hb. Hance, 10905!); Htjpeh: 

 Ichang, Patung, and Nanto and the neighbouring country (A. 

 Henry \). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Japan. 



This shrub appears to be very common in the district botanized 

 by Dr. Henry, who sends it under some half a dozen different 

 numbers. 



68. EUBIACE.E: Natjcle^. 



1. Cephalanthus occidentalis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 95 ; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. p. 538 ; Bentli. Fl. Ifongk. p. 146 {in notasub Adina) ; 



