6 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
This is not a variety of P. pekinensis Ruprecht (sect. Coronarii), but belongs 
to the section Satsumani, on account of the two years old branches having a close 
gray or brownish gray bark often divided by numerous borizontal cracks. 
Philadelphus brachybotrys, var. purpurascens Koehne, n. var. 
Frutex 1.4-6 m. altus. Petioli in ramulis florentibus 1-2 mm. longi, 
laxe pilosi v. glabri, in innovationibus ad 4 mm. longi, laxe pilosi; 
lamina in innovationum foliis 3.5-5 em. longa, 1.3-2.2 cm. lata, utrin- 
secus dentes 3-8 ad 0.6 mm. longos gerens, ciliata, in ramulorum florent- 
ium foliis 0.8-3.2 em. longa, 0.5-1.7 cm. lata, denticulis minutis paucis, 
supra ut in typo laxe pilosa, subtus vero nonnisi in nervis primariis 
pilis longiuseulis rigidis accumbentibus obsita v. interdum glabra; 
nervorum paria plerumque 2. Ramuli florentes 3-8.5 cm. longi ad- 
jecto racemo 2-4.5 cm. longo 3-7-floro, axi glabro; pedicelli infimi 6-8 
mm. longi, glabri, ut axis ovaria sepalaque saepe purpurascentes; 
eorolla alba 1.8-2.7 em. diam., petala ovali-rotundata, 10-14 mm. 
longa, 8-10 mm. lata; stamina 32, 33. Stylus vix ultra medium in- 
divisus. Fructus 8 mm. longus, 6 mm. diam., tertia parte convexa 
sepalorum insertionem superans. 
Western Szech'uan: Ta-p’ao-shan, northeast of  Tachien-lu, 
thickets, alt. 2750-3200 m., July 3, 1908 (No. 3046); west of Tachien- 
lu, thickets, alt. 3000 m., June and October 1908 (No. 1346). 
DEUTZIA Thunb. 
Determined by ALFRED REHDER. 
Deutzia scabra Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 185, t. 24 (1784). — Lindley in 
Bot. Reg. XX. t. 1713 (1835). — Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXVII. t. 
3838 (1841). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXIII. 276 (1887). — 
Schneider, Zll. Handb. Laubholzk., I. 379, fig. 242 1-q, 243 a-f (1905). 
D. crenata Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap., I. 19, t. 6 (1835). — Maximowiez in 
Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. sér, 7, X. No. XVI. 22, t. 2, fig. 27-31 (1867). 
Deuizia Fortunei, Carriére in Rev. Hort., 1866, p. 338. 
Kiangsi: Kuling, abundant, alt. 1200 m., July 29, 1907 (No. 1569). 
Kiangsu: Stronach (ex Hemsley). ere 
The Kiangsi specimen has remarkably large capsules, about 7 mm. in diameter, 
and large leaves ovate-oblong to lanceolate and broadly cuneate at the base. 
Hemsley cites also specimens from Hupeh and Formosa; the first quotation prob- 
ably refers to the following species, the second to D. taiwanensis. 
