Tas. 8193. 
x PHILADELPHUS purpurEo-MACULATUS. 
Garden origin. 
SAXIFRAGACHAE. Tribe HyDRANGEAE. 
PHILADELPHUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 642. 
Philadelphus purpureo-maculatus, Lemoine, Catal. Automne, 1904, n. 158 
J. Veitch & Sons, Catal. Hardy Trees and Shrubs [1904], p. 144; stirps 
hybrida origine incerta; xP. Lemoinei similis, floribus albo-rubris 
differt ; etiamque a P. mexicano var. Coulteri, Hort. (cujus flores quoque 
albo-purpurei) foliis floribusque minoribus, petalis ovatis, stylis glabris et 
stigmatibus capitatis recedit. 
Frutex 1-2 m. altus, glabrescens, floribundus, ramis primum rubris gracilibus, 
primariis elongatis, secundariis lateralibus floriferis brevissimis. lia 
brevissime petiolata, papyracea, ovata, in ramis floriferis saepius 1-1°5 cm. 
longa, maxima 2°5-3 cm. longa, apiculata, basi rotundata, integra vel 
utrinque 1-denticulata, primum pilis appressis parce instructa. Flores 
pulchelli, in ramorum lateralium brevissimorum apicibus saepissime 
solitarii, 3°5-4 em. diametro. Calycis lobi 4, crassi, ovati, 6-7 mm. 
longi, apiculato-acuminati, 3-nervi, extus parcissime puberuli, intus albo- 
tomentosi. Petala 4, rotundato-ovata, circiter 1-5 cm. longa, glabra, vel 
pilis paucissimis extus instructa, alba, basi rubro-purpurea. Stamina 
numerosissima, Styli glabri. Capsula ignota.—P. Lemoinei var. maculatus, 
Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxvi. p. 14. 
Lemoine states that this remarkable novelty was the issue 
of P. Lemoinei *‘ fantasie”; itself the result of a cross in 
which P. Coulteri was one of the parents. In consequence 
of there being two, or possibly three, different kinds of 
Philadelphus in cultivation having red and white flowers, 
considerable research was necessary to establish the identity 
of the present one, and this brought to light some interesting 
facts which may be put on record here. It may be premised 
that the wild forms of Philadelphus are very difficult of 
discrimination, and the cultivated ones still more so in 
consequence of complicated intercrossing. 
P. mexicanus, Schlecht., was described (Linnaea, 1839, 
vol. xiii. p. 418) from specimens collected by Schiede and 
others; all having large, semi-double flowers, solitary or in 
threes. In the same place the author describes his P. afjinis, 
from specimens in fruit, in racemes of five. Nothing is said 
as to the colour of the flowers of the former, so we may assume 
that they were white. The same year Hartweg collected 
May, 1908. 
