high mountains of the South of Japan, whence I received it 
alive. It succeeded very well in the Botanical Garden of 
Dezima, and would be a beautiful ornament of our gardens.” 
(Flora Japonica, p. 23.) 
The species now figured was found by Dr. Wallich’s people 
in Kamaon, and by Professor Royle on the highest mountains 
of the Himalayas, such as Acharanda and Urrukta. D. sta- 
minea and Brunoniana are, we are informed by the same 
authority, common about Mussooree, and every where in the 
mountains at similar elevations. (Illustrations, p. 216.) 
In the Gardens this forms a very pretty and hardy shrub, 
growing four or five feet high in any good garden soil, and 
requiring about the same treatment as the species of Phila- 
delphus. It yields an agreeable lemon-scent, and flowers, if 
planted in the open border, about June ; but it will force very 
well, if subjected to the same treatment as Persian Lilacs, and 
such plants. It strikes readily from cuttings of the half-ripe 
wood, and the young plants flower freely when so multiplied. 
The plant, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
from which this figure was taken, was first presented to the 
Society by Mr. H. Low of Clapton, who received it from Dr. 
v. Siebold. It was subsequently raised in the garden from 
seeds received from the Honourable Court of Directors of the 
East India Company. 
Fig. 1. represents a section of a flower, deprived of its 
petals, and shewing the manner in which the placente are 
constructed. Fig. 2. is a transverse section of the ovary. 
Fig. 3. is one of the star-like hairs with which the branches, 
leaves, fruit, and back of the petals are, more or less, closely 
covered; it is not however magnified enough to shew the real 
nature of these most curious parts. If highly magnified the 
stellate hairs of this plant are among the most beautiful of all 
microscopical objects, and I can compare them to nothing so 
well as to stars formed of icicles covered with little glittering 
points. There is this remarkable in their structure, that each 
star has a convex centre, whence the rays diverge, appearing 
to be thé apex of a primitive hair, of which the rays are the 
second joints planted perpendicularly upon it. This is very 
imperfectly shewn in the highly magnified figures given in 
Dr. v. Siebold’s beautiful plates. 
D. parviflora of Bunge is hardly distinct from this species. 
