140 PHILADELPHIA 



Petals oval, rounded at the top ; calyx smooth outside, downy towards the 

 points of the lobes inside ; styles separated at the top only ; flower-stalk 

 smooth. 



Native of N. China, Mongolia, Corea. It flowers in late May and June, 

 and is distinct in its yellowish flowers, smooth leaves with purplish stalks, and 

 smooth flower-stalks ; but it is not one of the best, although free-flowering. 

 Near it, and sometimes made a variety of it, is P. BRACHYBOTRYS, Koehne, 

 introduced by Mr Maurice de Vilmorin from China in 1892. This also has 

 yellowish flowers but smaller, and the young shoots are furnished with a few 

 stiff hairs ; the leaves entire or indistinctly toothed. It forms a rounded, 

 dense-habited bush. (See also p. 134.) 



P. PURPUREO-MACULATUS, Lemoine. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8193.) 



A hybrid of the Lemoinei type, but more bushy in habit ; young wood 

 reddish brown, hairy. Leaves of the barren shoots broadly ovate or roundish, 

 the base slightly heart-shaped ; the largest if ins. long, i^ ins. wide ; one to 

 three teeth on either side, dull dark green, slightly hairy ; stalk \ in. long. 

 The leaves of the flowering twigs are I in. or so long, with usually one tooth, or 

 entire. Flowers fragrant, i^ ins. across, solitary at the end of a short lateral 

 branchlet, petals white, with a blotch of purplish rose at the base, opening 

 in mid-June. 



This beautiful Philadelphus was raised by Mr Lemoine of Nancy, and is 

 apparently derived from P. mexicanus var. Coulteri (q.v.}, crossed with one of 

 the microphylla hybrids. It is the patch of colour in the centre of the flower, 

 inherited from the former parent, that gives this Philadelphus its value and 

 distinctness in gardens. Although hardy in ordinary seasons, it is not quite 

 so hardy as P. Lemoinei. 



P. SATSUMI, Siebold. 

 (P. acuminatus, Lange.} 



An erect shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high ; young shoots smooth ; bark of the previous 

 year's shoots dark greyish brown, more or less split lengthwise, but not 

 peeling off. Leaves ovate or oval, with long drawn-out points ; those of the 

 barren shoots 2 to 6 ins. long, half as wide, toothed, usually five-nerved, 

 smooth above, downy in the vein-axils beneath ; the leaves of the flowering 

 shoots are smaller and proportionately narrower, and often quite or nearly 

 entire. Flowers slightly scented, white, about i^ ins. across, produced in erect 

 racemes of five to eleven flowers ; petals oval, rounded ; style rather shorter 

 than the stamens, the stigmas separate ; calyx-lobes ovate, smooth outside or 

 nearly so. 



Native of Japan ; introduced in 1851. 



P. TOMENTOSUS, Wallich. 



A shrub 6 or 8 ft. high ; young shoots smooth, or slightly hairy when 

 quite young only. Leaves i^ to 4 ins. long, f to 2 ins. wide ; oval or ovate, 

 with long slender points and a rounded or tapered base, unevenly toothed ; 

 dark green and hairy above, especially when young, grey and felted beneath ; 

 stalk \ to in. long. Petals oval, rounded at the end ; calyx smooth outside, 

 downy inside : style about as long as the stamens ; stigmas separate. 



Native of the Himalaya ; introduced, according to Loudon, in 1822. It is 

 often regarded as a variety of P. coronarius, but is amply distinguished from 



