DEUTZIA 483 



All these forms are exceedingly beautiful at their best, and quite hardy. 

 Provided they escape late frosts, they produce slender columnar masses of 

 blossom i to 2 ft. long, composed of racemes terminating short side twigs 

 from the previous year's growths. Half in flower, half in bud, they are 

 exquisite. 



D. LEMOINEI, Hort. 



A hybrid between D. gracilis and D. parviflora, raised by Mr Lemoine of 

 Nancy. It is an erect shrub up to 7 or 8 ft. high, with smooth young shootsj 

 and lanceolate leaves, li to 4 ins. long, \ to i^ ins. wide, sharply toothed, 

 long-pointed; the upper surface has minute star-like hairs, beneath it is almost 

 smooth. Flowers pure white, f in. across, produced in erect corymbs. For 

 forcing into flower early this is a very valuable shrub, more beautiful and 

 effective than gracilis, and in that state is very popular at spring flower 

 shows. Out-of-doors, at least in low-lying localities, it rarely has a chance to 

 do itself justice, owing to the destruction of its flower-buds by unseasonable 

 frosts. Its natural flowering time is May and June. 



D. LONGIFOLIA, Franchet. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8493.) 



A deciduous shrub 4 to 6 ft. high ; young shoots sparsely scurfy ; after- 

 wards smooth, bright brown, peeling. Leaves narrowly oval-lanceolate, 

 rounded or tapered at the base, slender-pointed, finely toothed ; i^ to 5 ins. 

 long, \ to J in. wide ; upper surface dull greyish green, sprinkled with pale, 

 flat, usually five- or six-rayed, stellate hairs ; under-surface greyish white, 

 covered with a close felt-like layer of many-rayed stellate scales, the midrib 

 and chief veins furnished on each side with few to many white simple hairs. 

 Flowers in corymbose panicles, 2 to 3 ins. long and wide, produced in June at 

 the end of short two- to six-leaved twigs ; each flower is about I in. across, 

 rich purplish rose, paling at the margins of the petals. The wings of the inner 

 stamens are deeply bilobed at the top, the anthers set in the notch ; calyx-lobes 

 linear-oblong, persistent, covered like the calyx-tube and flower-stalks with 

 pale starry scurf. Fruit in. across. 



Native of W. China ; introduced by Wilson in 1905. This is one of the 

 finest of the Chinese Deutzias, both in size of flower and richness of tint. 

 It is closely allied to D. discolor, but is distinguished by the longer, narrower 

 leaves, more distinctly veined beneath, and especially, by the simple hairs 

 along the midrib absent in discolor ; the wings of the inner stamens are 

 deeply bilobed in discolor, but the lobes do not reach up to or above the anther 

 as in longifolia. 



Var. VEITCHII is a form with larger and more striking flowers. 



D. MOLLIS, Duthte. 



A deciduous shrub, 5 or 6 ft. high, with reddish brown, hairy young 

 shoots. Leaves lanceolate, oval, or broadly ovate ; 2 to 4^ ins. long, f to T.\ ins. 

 wide, shortly or slenderly pointed, rounded or tapered at the base ; finely 

 toothed, dull green and rough with stellate hairs above, grey and thickly 

 felted with soft down beneath. Flowers white, \ in. across, produced 

 during June in dense corymbs 2 to 3 ins. in diameter. Petals rounded ; 

 wings of stamens tapered from the base to the top, and quite entire ; calyx- 

 lobes very short, broad, and reflexed. Flower-stalks and calyx densely 

 covered with short hairs and starry scales. 



