high mountains of the South of Japan, whence I received it 

 alive. It succeeded very well in the Botanical Garden of 

 Dezima, and would be a beautiful ornament of our gardens." 

 (Flora Japonica, p. 23.) 



The species now figured was found by Dr. Wallich's people 

 in Kamaon, and by Professor Royle on the highest mountains 

 of the Himalayas, such as Acharanda and Urrukta. I), sta- 

 minea and Brunoniana are, we are informed by the same 

 authority, common about Mussooree, and every where in the 

 mountains at similar elevations. ( Illustrations^ p. 216.) 



In the Gardens this forms a very pretty and hardy shrub, 

 growing four or five feet high in any good garden soil, and 

 requiring about the same treatment as the species of Phila- 

 delphus. It yields an agreeable lemon-scent, and flowers, if 

 planted in the open border, about June ; but it will force very 

 well, if subjected to the same treatment as Persian Lilacs, and 

 such plants. It strikes readily from cuttings of the half-ripe 

 wood, and the young plants flower freely when so multiplied. 



The plant, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 from which this figure was taken, was first presented to the 

 Society by Mr. H. Low of Clapton, who received it from Dr. 

 V. Siebold. It was subsequently raised in the garden from 

 seeds received from the Honourable Court of Directors of the 

 East India Company. 



Fig. 1. represents a section of a flower, deprived of its 

 petals, and shewing the manner in which the placentae are 

 constructed. Fig. 2. is a transverse section of the ovary. 

 Fig. 3. is one of the star-like hairs with which the branches, 

 leaves, fruit, and back of the petals are, more or less, closely 

 covered; it is not however magnified enough to shew the real 

 nature of these most curious parts. If highly magnified the 

 stellate hairs of this plant are among the most beautiful of all 

 microscopical objects, and I can compare them to nothing so 

 well as to stars formed of icicles covered with little glittering 

 points. There is this remarkable in their structure, that each 

 star has a convex centre, whence the rays diverge, appearing 

 to be the apex of a primitive hair, of which the rays are the 

 second joints planted perpendicularly upon it. This is very 

 imperfectly shewn in the highly magnified figures given in 

 Dr. V. Siebold's beautiful plates. 



D. parviflora of Bunge is hardly distinct from this species. 



