growth. Mr. Fortune has the merit of introducing this shrub 
to the Gardens of the Horticultural Society, from China, in 
1845, and it is now pretty widely dispersed. The corolla is 
remarkable for the change of colour, rose and white, hence Dr. 
Lindley aptly compares the colour of the flowers to those of the 
Chinese Crab, Pyrus spectabilis. 
Descr. A shrué with the habit of Philadelphus, the branchlets, 
petioles, and nerves of the eaves at the back hairy or ciliated. 
Leaves opposite, on short pefioles, ovate, acuminate, serrate, 
much veined and reticulated, the apex and base entire. /owers 
solitary, from the axils of the upper leaves on short branches, 
or the branch is lengthened out into a peduncle or spike of three 
or four sessile flowers. Bracteas small, opposite, subulate, ap- 
pressed. Ovary adherent with the calyx, linear, nearly cylin- 
drical, hairy. Calyzx-tube prolonged above the ovary and termi- 
nating in five long, subulate, ciliated segments. Coro//a generally 
deep rose without ; within paler rose-colour changing to white, gla- 
brous or nearly so. Zuée funnel-shaped, with a long downy oblong 
gland attached to one side at the base within. Lim nearly regu- 
lar, of five, rounded, spreading lobes. Stamens slightly exserted. 
Anther \inear, yellow. Style as long as the stamens: sigma 
peltato-capitate, somewhat two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and part of the calyx and corolla: the latter laid open to show 
the attached gland :—magnified. 
