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D. PURPURASCENS, Rehder. 



(D. discolor var. purpurascens, Franchet; Bot. Mag., t. 7 708.} 



A shrub 6 or 7 ft. high ; shoots pale brown, rather scurfy when quite young. 

 Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 ins. long, f to ITF ins. wide, broadly 

 tapered or rounded at the base, slender-pointed, toothed" scurfy, with starry 

 minute scales on both surfaces, especially above ; stalk \ to in. long. 

 Corymbs rounded, i| to 2 ins. across, expanding in early June ; flowers 

 f in. across, white suffused with purple on the outside ; petals roundish ovate, 

 scurfy outside except at the margins. The five longer" stamens have the 

 apex of the wings forked so that each fork stands above the anther, the 

 five smaller ones have the apex undivided and the anther attached below 

 it on the inner side ; calyx with linear-lanceolate lobes, and, like the flower- 

 stalk, covered with starry scurf. 



Native of Yunnan ; discovered by the Abbe Delavay, and sent by him to 

 Mr de Vilmorin in 1888. It is allied to discolor, but as indicated by 

 Mr Rehder is distinguished by the scales on the leaves being only five- to 

 seven-rayed (half as many as in D. discolor), and by the wings of the 

 filaments being extended above the anthers. A very handsome shrub and a 

 parent of several beautiful hybrids, among which is D. KALMI^EFLORA (whose 

 pollen parent is D. parviflora) ; this was raised by Lemoine and distributed 

 in 1900; its flowers are pale rose inside, deeper outside. 



D. REFLEXA, Duthie. 



A shrub 3 ft. or more high ; young shoots smooth. Leaves oval-lanceolate, 

 tapered at the base, slenderly pointed ; 2 to 4 ins. long, \ to I in. wide ; 

 upper surface beset with rather scattered starry scales, the lower one grey, 

 densely clothed with much smaller scales, and furnished with simple hairs 

 along the chief veins. Flowers pure white, produced in May and early 

 June in dense, rounded, corymbose panicles about 2 ins. across. Petals \ 

 in. long, ceflexed at the margins ; wings of the stamens distinctly bilobed 

 at the top ; calyx-lobes narrow- oblong, persistent ; calyx and flower-stalks 

 scaly. 



Native of Central China ; discovered and introduced by Wilson in 1901. 

 I have only seen it in flower at Coombe Wood, where it is very pretty about 

 the beginning of June, the previous year's stems being then loaded with the 

 numerous flower clusters. It is .allied to D. Vilmorinae, and has the same 

 fringe of simple hairs along the midrib and veins, but the flower-stalks* are 

 shorter, the inflorescence more crowded, the flowers smaller; the reflexed 

 margins of the petals are also very distinctive. 



D. SCABRA, Thunberg. 



(D. crenata, Siebold^) 



A deciduous shrub up to 10 ft. high ; branches erect, covered with brown 

 peeling bark ; young shoots smooth or slightly rough. Leaves ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, the larger ones of the barren shoots rounded or heart- 

 shaped at the base, slender-pointed, up to 4 ins. long by nearly 2 ins. wide ; 

 the smaller ones and those of the flowering twigs tapered at the base, 

 all stellately scurfy on both sides ; the marginal teeth are small and fine, 

 standing upwards rather than outwards from the margin. Panicles erect, 

 cylindrical, 3 to 6 ins. long, terminating short leafy lateral twigs. Flowers 

 pure white or tinged with pink outside, j to f in. long and wide ; petals 



