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486 DEUTZIA 



nearly erect, oblong, pointed ; style about as long as the petals, calyx-lobes 

 deciduous, covered with starlike scales ; the lobes triangular ; wings of 

 stamens with two distinct shoulders below the anthers. Flowers in late June. 



Var. FLORE PLENO includes several forms with double flowers I in. across, 

 composed of numerous petals narrower than in the type. One of the best is 

 distinguished as FL. PL. ROSEO, the outer petals being suffused with rosy 

 purple. "Pride of Rochester" is very similar. Var. CANDIDISSIMA has 

 pure white flowers, and so has van WELLSII, but they are rather smaller. 



Var. PUNCTATA has single pure white flowers, but the leaves are strikingly 

 marbled with white and two or three shades of green. It is a rather pretty 

 variegated shrub, but apt to revert to the ordinary green state. 



Var. WATERERI. Flowers i in. across, single ; petals rosy outside. 



Native of Japan and China ; introduced in 1822. This is undoubtedly the 

 best and most reliable of Deutzias in this country. It usually escapes 

 damage by late frosts, and produces its showy erect panicles in great 

 profusion. Strong branches will, in their second year, become transformed 

 into pyramidal masses of bloom 2 ft. long. The double-flowered and rosy 

 forms are excellent shrubs. The species is confused with D. Sieboldiana 



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D. SETCHUENENSIS, Franchet. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8255.) 



A shrub up to 6 ft. high, of graceful habit ; young shoots scurfy, rather rough, 

 glossy the first year, brown the second year, finally peeling. Leaves oval- 

 lanceolate, rounded at the base, taper-pointed, finely toothed ; i| to 4^ ins. 

 long, to i ^ ins. wide ; dull green and rough, with minute starry hairs above, 

 grey and more densely covered with similar down beneath ; stalk ^ to f in. 

 long. Flowers white, about J in. across, produced in May and June in 

 corymbs 3 or 4 ins. across. Petals ovate, clothed with minute starry down 

 outside ; calyx-lobes triangular, persistent, they an,d the flower-stalks grey- 

 felted. The wings of the longer stamens terminate at the top in two 

 prominent teeth ; the smaller stamens have several smaller teeth. 



Native of China, in Szechuen and Hupeh ; introduced to France in 1895. 

 The plant described above was subsequently put in commerce by Lemoine as 

 corymbiflora (see Gardeners' 1 Chronicle, 1898, ii., p. 295). According to 

 Render, who distinguishes it as D. setchuenensis var. corymbiflora, it differs 

 slightly from the type in the character of the pubescence, and in length of 

 flower-stalk. It is a beautiful shrub, but unfortunately spring-tender in our 

 climate. 



D. MYRIANTHA, Lemoine, is a beautiful hybrid between the above and 

 D. parviflora. Flowers pure white, very numerous in large corymbs, hardier 

 than D. setchuenensis. 



D. SIEBOLDIANA, Maximowicz. 



(D. scabra, Siebold and Zuccarini, not of Thunberg.") 



A deciduous shrub of bushy, rather lax habit, 3 or 4 ft. high ; young shoots 

 covered with scurfy stellate down. Leaves ovate or oval ; i| to 3 ins. long 

 on the barren shoots, f to i| ins. wide ; rounded, heart-shaped, or tapered at 

 the base, pointed, sharply and irregularly toothed ; dull green, stellately hairy 

 on both surfaces, the hairs with three to five rays ; veins prominent beneath ; 

 stalk j in. or less long. Leaves of the flowering twigs smaller and compara- 

 tively broader ; often scarcely stalked. Flowers pure white, ^ in. diameter, 

 produced during early June in corymbose-paniculate clusters I to 2 ins. long, 

 terminating short lateral twigs which carry one or two pairs of leaves, Petals 



