other respects. The plant from which our figure was prepared 
was presented to Kew in 1897 by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, 
and since then it has never been seriously damaged by 
genuine winter cold. It will probably have some value as 
a shrub for forcing into early flower for greenhouse decora- 
tion, and will certainly prove a charming acquisition in 
climates where a sharper line divides winter from spring 
than is the case at Kew. Like the rest of the Deutzias, it 
thrives in good loam and is easily increased by means of 
te made of half-ripened wood. It flowers early in 
uly. 
Descriprion.— Undershrub, branches ash-grey, smooth, 
with deciduous bark; flowering twigs stellate-puberulous. 
Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, 
rounded at the base, 2-4 in. long, 3-1} in. wide, papery, 
their margins serrulate, stellate-puberulous on both surfaces ; 
main nerves 3—4-paired, indistinct above, slightly prominent 
beneath ; petioles 1-1 in. long, stellate-puberulous, chan- 
nelled above. Inflorescence corymbiform, many-flowered, 
branches 4-angled; bracts linear, } in. long. Flowers 
white, about # in. across; receptacle # in. long, densely 
stellate-tomentose. Calyx-tube short; lobes wide-triangular, 
subacute, 3 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. long at base. Petals 
ovate-elliptic, subacute, 4-1 in. long, }-} in. wide, stellate- 
pilose without, glabrous within. Stamens 2-seriate, those 
opposite the sepals 2 lin. long, deeply 2-lobed, those 
opposite the petals 1 lin. long, with laciniate tips. Styles 
distinct, 5 in. long. Capsule subglobose, about 4 in. across, 
stellate-puberulous. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, stellate hair from receptacle; 3 and 4, longer 
stamens; 5 and 6, shorter stamens :—a// enlarged. 
