DEUTZIA 481 



D. COMPACTA, Craib. 



A deciduous shrub whose young shoots are at first clothed with close 

 stellate down, becoming smooth and brown the second year. Leaves 

 lanceolate to oval-lanceolate, mostly rounded at the base, the apex long and 

 tapered; minutely toothed; up to 2^ ins. long by I in. wide on the sterile 

 shoots, much smaller on the short flowering ones; the upper surface dull dark 

 green, furnished with appressed, stellate, mostly four- or five-rayed hairs; 

 grey-green beneath, with more minute and more numerous stellate hairs (only 

 visible with a lens); veins in five to seven pairs; leaf-stalks \ to \ in. long. 

 Flowers borne during July at the end of leafy twigs about 3 ins. long 

 numerously, in compact corymbose panicles 2 ins. across. Flowers white, \ in. 

 wide, closely packed; petals roundish; calyx bell-shaped at the base, the 

 lobes broadly ovate; flower-stalks stellately hairy. 



Native of China; introduced by Mr Maurice de Vilmorin, and distributed 

 by him under the number 4277. It flowered for the first time at Kew and 

 Glasnevin in July 1913. It is distinct in its small, densely clustered blossoms. 



D. CORYMBOSA, R. Brown. 



A deciduous shrub up to 9 ft. high, of vigorous habit ; bark bright brown, 

 peeling off in rolls ; young shoots sprinkled when quite young with tiny 

 stellate hairs, becoming smooth. Leaves ovate, with a long tapered point 

 and a rounded or broadly tapered base, finely toothed, 2 to 5 ins. long, i to 2^ 

 ins. wide, green on both sides. To all appearance smooth, they are, especially 

 when young, really furnished with minute starry scales, only visible under the 

 lens. Flowers crowded in a corymb or broad panicle, 2 to 3 ins. across ; each 

 flower -f in. in diameter. Petals pure white, roundish ovate, overlapping ; 

 styles rather longer than the stamens ; .anthers large and conspicuously yellow, 

 wings of the stamens toothed. Calyx-lobes broadly triangular, smooth except 

 for embedded starry scales. 



Introduced from the Himalaya in 1830. The flowers have a charming 

 hawthorn-like scent, and form compact, full clusters. The anthers, through 

 their size and colour, give a yellowish tinge to the inflorescence. A distinct 

 and fine species, the year-old branches forming large pyramidal panicles in 

 June. 



D. DISCOLOR, Hemsley. 



A shrub 5 or 6 ft. high, young shoots scurfy, ultimately pale greyish brown, 

 smooth, and with peeling bark. Leaves of thinnish texture, narrowly ovate- 

 oblong ; \\ to 4-i ins. long, \ to T^ ins. wide ; dull green, with starlike hairs 

 above, grey beneath, and furnished with very minute, stellate scurf ; rounded or 

 broadly tapered at the base, slender-pointed or sometimes acute. Flowers in 

 corymbs 3 ins. across ; each flower i to I in. wide, the best forms very showy, 

 varyingjn colour from white to pink. Calyx and flower-stalks scurfy. 



Native of Central and W. China. The best form of this species is var. 

 MAJOR, which has white or faintly rose-tinted flowers I in. across, produced 

 in long arching sprays. It was introduced by Wilson for Messrs Veitch in 

 1901. (Fig., p. 482.) The distinctions between this species and D. longifolia 

 are pointed out under the latter. 



D. GRACILIS, Siebold. 



A deciduous, erect-growing shrub up to 4 ft. high ; young shoots soon 

 auite smooth. Leaves lanceolate, tapered or rounded at the base, long and 



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