TAB. 8795. 
DEUTZIA comMPAcTA, 
China. 
— 
GAXIFRAGACEAE. ‘Tribe HyDRANGEAE. 
Devrzia, Thunb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 642. 
Deutzia compacta, Craib in Kew Bull. 19138, p. 964; Bean in Trees and 
Shrubs Brit. Isles, vol. i. p. 481 ; speciesa D. rwbente, Rehder, inflorescentia 
compacta multiflora, floribus minoribus distinguenda. 
Frutex dumosus, 1-2-metralis; novelli teretes dense stellato-pubescentes ; 
cortex annotinus brunnescens desquamatus. olia oblongo-lanceolata, 
acuminata, basi rotundata, ramulorum sterilium 7°5 em. longa, 3 cm. lata, 
ramulorum floriferorum 2-3°5 em. longa; nervi laterales -conspicui, 
5-9-jugi, supra impressi, subtus elevati; supra saturate viridia, parce 
stellato-pubescentia, subtus pallidiora, pilis stellatis minutis 5—8-radiatis 
densius obsita; petiolus 2-4 mm. longus, supra canaliculatus. Corymbi in 
ramulos foliatos terminales, rotundati, compacti, pluriflori, ad 5 cm. lati; 
pedunculi et pedicelli furfuracei. Flores 6-9 mm. lati; receptaculum 
campanulatum, 1°5 mm. longum, squamis stellatis minutis -obsitum. 
Sepala 5, 1°5 mm. longa, acuta, ciliolata et adpresse stellato-lepidota. 
Petala imbricata, orbicularia, 3 mm. lata, primo roseo suffusa, mox alba. 
Stamina 10, 2-seriata, petalis breviora ; filamenta alba, alata, exteriorum 
alis apice acutato divergentibus, interiorum breviorum alis apice rotundatis ; 
antherae primo rubescentes demum brunneae. Styli 8, glabri. Fructus 
haud visus.—W. J. Bran. 
Deutzia compacta was sent to Kew by the late 
Mr. Maurice L. de Vilmorin in 1912, under the number 
4377. It was received with a batch of Chinese plants, but 
with no precise information as to the particular district 
in China from which it had been introduced, or by whom 
its introduction had been effected. It flowered at Kew 
in July, 1913, when the accompanying figure was pre- 
ed. At the same time flowering specimens were 
received from Glasnevin, gathered from a plant which had 
been presented to that establishment by Mr. de Vilmorin 
also. The Kew plant is now about 4 ft. high, bushy, 
and evidently very hardy. It is about the latest of the 
Deutzias to open its flowers, and this not only adds to 
its value as blossoming at a season when shrubs in flower 
January—Marcg, 1919, : 
