DIPELTA 



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Native of Central and W. China ; discovered in 1875, but not introduced 

 until 1902, when Wilson sent home living plants to Messrs Veitch. Seeds 

 were sent two years later. The first flowers opened in the Coombe Wood 

 nursery in 1907. This shrub bears its fragrant blossoms abundantly, the 

 year-old shoots developing short side twigs on which they appear in May 

 and June, thus forming sprays with the flowers in a double row of clusters. 



D. VENTRICOSA, Hemsley. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8294.) 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 15 ft. high ; young shoots downy. Leaves oval or 

 ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, the apex long and taper-pointed, 

 edged with a few gland-tipped teeth, sometimes quite entire ; 2 to 6 ins. long, 



DlPELTA VKNTRICOSA. 



| to 1 1 ins. wide ; downy on the margins and slightly so on both surfaces ; 

 stalks } to \ in. long. Flowers produced at the end and in the leaf-axils of 

 short side shoots ; usually they are solitary in the leaf-axil and in a 

 terminal corymb of three. Corolla between tubular and pitcher-shaped ; 

 i to i ins. long, and f in. wide at the mouth ; the tube protruded on one 

 side near the base ; five-lobed, the lobes rounded, and the two upper ones 

 the smaller ; deep rose outside, paler within, except in the throat, which is 

 orange-coloured. Calyx with five avd-shaped lobes, \ in. long, fringed with 

 short hairs. Flower-stalk slender, and furnished with several bracts at the 

 base of each flower. These bracts (the largest f in. long, \ in. wide), are 



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