HORTUS VEITCHII 



sized flowers, the filaments of the stamens are petaloid but not lobed at 

 the apex. 



DEUTZIA GEACILIS, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Gard. Chron. 1851, p. 513 (advt.) ; Fl. des Serres, 1850-1851, torn. vi. t. 611. 



A hardy Japanese shrub grown in almost every garden for forcing 

 purposes, with white flowers useful in winter or early spring. 



Introduced from Japan through Thomas Lobb, it was first exhibited on 

 May 3rd 1851, at the Horticultural Society's Show, Chiswick, and again on 

 May 14th of that year at the Eoyal Botanic Society's Show in Eegent's 

 Park, on both occasions a Medal awarded. 



DEUTZIA MOLLIS, Duthie. 



A distinct species from Central China. 



The leaves ovate or elliptic lanceolate with the characteristic stellate 

 hairs on the upper surface clothed beneath with a soft pubescence of a 

 velvety appearance. 



The white flowers in a flat corymbose inflorescence. 



DEUTZIA PLANIFLOEA, Duthie. 



A medium-sized shrub with flowers of the purest white, raised from seed 

 collected in Central China. 



The leaves somewhat membraneous, lanceolate acuminate, with serrate 

 margins : the flowers in thyrsoid panicles ; the obtuse petals spread flat 

 and the broad filaments prominently lobed. 



DEUTZIA EEFLEXA, Duthie. 



A species collected in Central China by Wilson, a somewhat slender- 

 growing shrub with greyish wood and narrow lanceolate leaves serrate 

 along the margin. The flowers on slender pedicels in corymbose panicles 

 are pure white in colour, the lateral margins of each petal folded back have 

 a distinct and curious appearance. 



DEUTZIA WILSONI, Duthie. 



A vigorous-growing species with coriaceous elliptic-lanceolate leaves, 

 serrate along the margin, rough to the touch. 



The flowers, individually the largest known in the genus, are in erect 

 thyrsoid panicles. 



It was raised from seed collected in Central China by Wilson, after 

 whom it is named, and first flowered at Coombe Wood during the summer 

 of 1905. 



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