Northern Chinese seed was received at Kew under the 
same name from the Arnold Arboretum. This flowered 
in the hardy collection here in 1914 and from it the 
material for our plate has been obtained. This plant 
differs from the one from Western Hupeh in having less 
hairy leaves with less prominent lateral veins, somewhat 
smaller outer sepals and petals, and a rather longer style 
more attenuated towards the base. In other respects 
the two plants agree. But while sufficiently distinct asa 
garden-plant, there is little doubt that the form here 
figured must be looked upon as one intermediate between 
P. fruticosa, Linn., and P. davurica, Nestl. Several such — 
forms with whitish or pale sulphur-coloured flowers are 
known from Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, where the 
areas of these two species overlap ; they appear to 
correspond with the different variations referred to the 
reputed garden hybrid, P. Friedrichseni, Spith. Our 
plant has indeed already been referred as a variety to 
P. fruticosa by Mr. Bean ‘in his excellent work on “ Trees 
and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles,” and that it must 
be accorded treatment of this kind is indisputable. 
Perhaps, however, it is on the whole preferable to reduce 
it to the other species of the pair, P. davurica, a plant 
well known in cultivation and figured at t. 3676 of this 
work as P. glabra, Lodd., which has leaflets that, even in 
bud, are glabrous except for a few hairs along the 
Margins, and is in its native country a dwarf compact 
shrub. There are other distinct varieties of P. davurica ; 
one with a dense and shaggy tomentum from Manchuria 
has been distinguished under P. fruticosa, not under 
its proper species, as var. mandschurica, Maxim. ; another 
with silvery leaves occurs in Western China. . 
davuriea, var. Veitchii, in its native country affects open, 
rocky situations, fully exposed to the sun. Mr. Wilson 
describes it as being rem arkably floriferous ; though at its 
best in early summer, it flowers continuously from May 
till late autumn, producing its sprays of snow-white 
flowers well above the grey-green foliage. In cultivation 
it makes a shapely low bush and flowers continuously 
pate May until September. It likes a loamy soil and an 
n, sunny position, and may be propagated by cuttings 
made in July and August. PEP ; : 
