original description of D. longifolia was based, it has been 
possible to ascertain that the name suggested by Mr. Wilson 
is superfluous. In 1908 a further supply of seeds was 
received at Kew from Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum ; 
from this consignment was raised the plant from which the 
material for our illustration has been obtained. In 1909 
yet another supply of seed reached Messrs. Veitch. The 
species varies slightly in size of flower and in depth of 
colouring ; one of the best of its forms is that which was 
raised by Messrs. Veitch in 1902, and was again raised at 
Kew in 1908, Like all the other members of the genus, 
D. longifolia rejoices in a rich loamy soil and can be 
propagated by cuttings of moderately firm wood in July 
and August. In low-lying districts its flowers are liable to 
be damaged by late spring frosts, but on the whole it may be 
regarded as one of the most ornamental of Chinese Deutzias. 
Drscriprion.—Shrub, 3-7 ft. high, young twies clothed 
with fine stellate hairs, old branches glabrate, pale brown, 
bark flaking, flakes thin. Leaves lanceolate, acute or often 
acuminate, base more or less narrowed, margins finely 
sharply serrulate, 1$-3} in. long, 3-1 in. wide, rather 
thick, dark green above, with scattered stellate hairs, 
_ beneath densely grey-white tomentose with stellate hairs, | 
but with a few simple hairs on the nerves, lateral nerves 
about 4 on each side, somewhat raised beneath. Cymes 
aggregated in a many-flowered hemispherical or almost 
pyramidal corymb about 24 in. across; lower bracts leafy, 
upper linear or filiform, about 4 in. long; pedicels over 
% In. long. Receptacle densely stellate-lepidote, almost 
pruinose, hemispherical, 1 in. wide. Sepals lanceolate or 
triangular-lanceolate, } in. long, persisting, their margins 
red. Petals ovate, rose-coloured in bud, suffused with rose 
when expanded, over } in. long. Stamens of outer series 
with filaments 3-winged above, the lateral wings the larger 
and produced as far as the middle of the anther, those 
of the inner series with a solitary linear tooth longer than 
the anther, all much shorter than the petals. Styles } in, long. 
Fruit when ripe globose, }-1 in. wide, white-pruinose. 
Fig. 1, base of leaf; 2, section of calyx; 3, stellate scales; 4, 5, 6 and 7, 
stamens ; 8, leaf from a second specimen :—al] enlarged except 8, which is of . 
natural size, 
