branches on which the corymbs are borne into long flower 
sprays of striking and singular beauty. Mr. E, H. Wilson, 
who discovered this species in Western Hupeh in 1900 
(Herbarium No. 2276) when collecting for Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons, and introduced it that year to European gardens, 
informs us that he considers it the finest of the Chinese 
Spiraeas. This opinion has not been belied by experience 
since it was expressed, and as there appears to be no doubt 
as to the perfect hardiness of the species, it should make a 
valuable addition to cultivated shrubs, The original plants 
in Messrs. Veitch’s nursery at Coombe Wood, from one of 
which, in flower in July, 1909, the material for our figure 
was obtained, make growths six to eight feet long in a 
season, Such shoots are barren the first year, but in the 
following season develop short flowering branches from the 
nodes. Like nearly all the Spiraeas, S. Veitchii requires a 
rich loamy soil and can be propagated by late summer 
cuttings. Such pruning as it requires consists of the 
removal of old and crowded stems as soon as the plant is 
out of flower. 
Descriprion.— Shrub up to 10 or 12 ft. high, of spreading 
habit; branches very leaty, arching, graceful, reddish when 
young and covered the first year with a close pubescence. 
Leaves deciduous, entire, oval, oblong or occasionally 
obovate, cuneate at the base, rounded and with a small 
mucro at the apex, 3-1} in. long, 4-3 in. wide, glabrous 
above, beneath very minutely puberulous; petiole pubes- 
cent, y's In. long. Corymbs 14-24 in, in diameter, 
terminal on short, lateral, leafy branchlets. Flowers very 
numerous and densely arranged, } in. in diameter. Calya 
broadly funnel-shaped with acute triangular lobes, puberu- 
lous. Petals white, almost orbicular. Carpels glabrescent, 
¥ In. long, membranaceous, dehiscing ventrally. 
Fig. 1, an expanded flower ; 2, calyx and pi til; 3, calyx, laid n, showing 
the carpels; 4, branchlet of a cor, ee Mie 1 enlarged 
except 4, which is of natural thal deees sper sean a artetomaeetetre 
