228 NEW PLANTS, ETC.. 



gela rosea, which, I have said in another place, belonged to a 

 Chinese Mandarin, on the island of Chusan, and was generally 

 called the " Grotto Garden" by the English. Like the Wie- 

 gela it is a great favourite with the Chinese, and is generally 

 grown in all the gardens of the rich in the north of China. I 

 afterwards found it wild amongst the mountains of the interior 

 in the province of Chekiang, where I thought it even more or- 

 namental in its natural state amongst the hedges than when 

 cultivated in the fairy gardens of the Mandarins. 



" In England it is probable that it will be nearly hardy, but 

 I advise the possessors of it in the first place to keep it in the 

 greenhouse, and to plant it on the conservative wall, until its 

 constitution is proved in the Garden of the Society next winter. 

 It is a free growing bush, and is easily increased by cuttings or 

 layers." 



34. Deutzia staminea. Wallich, PlantcB Asiaticce rariores, 

 vol. ii., t. 191. 



Presented by the East India Company ; raised from seed 

 in 1841, from the Himalayas. 



It is stated by Dr. Wallich that this plant grows on the 

 highest mountains of the great valley of Nepal, and in the pro- 

 vince of Kamaon. Dr. Royle speaks of it as being common in 

 Mussooree, and apparently well suited to English shrubberies. 



It is a small bush with deciduous ovate-lanceolate stalked 

 leaves, firmly serrated, dull-green and smooth on the upper side, 

 whitish beneath. The flowers are pure white, somewhat larger 

 than those of Hawthorn, in terminal corymbose panicles. The 

 calyx is small, white, with five small triangular teeth. The 

 petals are oblong, and rather crumpled. The stamens have 

 large winged edges produced upwards into a strong tooth. The 

 whole plant has a feeble, somewhat balsamic smell. 



It is a small hardy shrub, growing well in the common garden 

 soil, and easily increased by cuttings of the half-ripened slender 

 young wood ; is very pretty and flowers freely in May. 



May 22, 1846. 



35. Hoo-suNG, or Oo-sung. 



This is a lettuce-like plant, from Shanghae, seeds of which 

 were sent from thence in a letter by Mr. Fortune, and 

 received at the Garden January 9th, 1845. 

 It is possibly the Youngia dentata of De Candolle, or Pre- 

 nanthes dentata of Thunberg. 



