are becoming scarce, but also enables it to escape the 
late frosts which, at Kew at any rate, almost every year 
ruin the display of most of the species. Its flowers are 
pretty and distinct in their compact arrangement, their 
smali size and large numbers, characters which dis- 
tinguish it from D. rubens, Rehder. The Deutzias enjoy 
a good loamy soil and abundant sunshine, and are easily 
increased by means of cuttings put in in July. 
DistriputTion.—Shrub, probably 5-6 feet high, of bushy habit; young shoots 
terete, furnished densely with stellate pubescence; bark becoming dark brown 
and peeling the second season. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded 
at the base, finely serrate, those of the barren shoots 8 in. long, 1} in. wide, 
those of the flowering twigs j-1} in. long; conspicuously nerved, the chief 
lateral nerves 5-9 along each side the midrib, impressed above, prominently 
raised beneath; dull dark green above with scattered stellate hairs, paler 
beneath and almost covered with minute, 5-8-rayed stellate hairs ; petiole 3-1 
in. long, grooved on the upper side. Corymbs terminal on short leafy twigs, 
rounded, compact, many-flowered, about 2 in. across. Flowers 3-8 in. wide ; 
peduncle and pedicels scurfy. Receptacle campanulate, qs in. long. Sepals 
zz in. long, ciliolate, acute, clothed like the receptacle with minute adpressed 
stellate scales. Petals imbricate, orbicular, % in, in diameter, white tinged 
with pink when young. Stamens 10, 2-seriate, shorter than the petals; the 
filaments white, those of the outer row diverging at the top into a pointed wing 
at each side of the anthers, those of the inner row shorter; anthers at first red, 
then brown. Styles 3, glabrous. Fruit nor seen. 
Tas. 8795.—Fig. 1, flower with petals removed; 2, stellate hairs from 
receptacle ; 3, stamen of outer series, seen from in front; 4,the same, seen 
from behind; 5, stamen of inner series :—all enlarged. 
