XXX. i'HILADEI.PHA'CE^ : DEV^TZTJ. 4^5 



several times that distance by its long shoots, which "TX^^ 

 sometimes grow from 6 (t. to 10 ft. in a season. Intro- *^^\,^V 

 duced in 1820. Flowers white, scentless ; middle of 



Very hardy, uninjured by the 

 winter of 1837-8, and striking 

 readily from half-ripened cut- 

 tings planted in sandy loam in 

 shady situations and covered 

 with a hand-glass. Grafted 

 standard high, it would form a 

 very ornamental object. 333. p. hirswu.. 



S32. P. hirsutus. 



12. P. TOMENTO^SUS IVa//. 



The wooWy-leaved Philadelphus, or Alock 

 Orange. 



identification. Wall. Cat., 3658. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 807. 



:ynonymes. P. ncpalensis Lorfrf. Ca;". edit. 18.36; ? P.tn^i>r\iB Royle. 



y.ngravings. Royle lllust., t. 46. f. 1. ; oui fig. 834. from Royle ; a.nd fig. 835. from a specimen in 



1 the Linnaean herbarium. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves 

 ovate, acuminated, denti- 

 culated, tomentose be- 

 neath. Racemes terminal. 

 Pedicels opposite. Lobes 

 of calyx ovate, acute. 

 (Doll's Mill.) A rambling 

 shrub, Nepal and Kainaon. 

 Height 5 ft. to 6 ft. In- 

 troduced in 1822. Flow- 



P. triflorus, Royle observes, is, probably, only P. tomentosus in a less 

 Ivanced state. According to Mr. Gordon, P. triflorus is very distinct from 

 '. tomentosus, and quite hardy. 



P. mexicdnus Schlecht. in Linnsea 13. 418., Plant. Hart. 61., and Bot. Reg. 

 jliron. 1840, No. 70., was raised from seeds in the Horticultural Society's 

 [arden in 1840, and is probably hardy. 



, Genus II. 



P. toment6&Ui. 



DEU'TZ/^ Thunb. The Deutzia. Lin. Syst. Decandria Trigy'nia. 



'mification. Thimb. Nov. Gen., 19. ; Jap. p. 10.; Juss, Gen., 431. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 808. 

 wont/mes. Philadelphus in part, Leptospermum in part 

 'rivalion. Named in honour of John Deutz, a Dutch naturalist. 



n. Char. Calyx tube campanulate, tomentose ; limb 5 6-cleft. Petals 

 56, oblong. Stamens 10. ' Filaments tricuspidate. Styles 3 4, longer 

 than the corolla. Stigma simple, club-shaped. Capsule globular, truncate, 

 perforated, somewhat 3-cornered, scabrous ; 3 4-valved, 3 4-celled. 

 Seeds several in each cell. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous ; petiolate, ovate, acumi- 

 nated, serrated, wrinkled, and veined ; scabrous from stellate fascicles of 

 clown. Flowers white, in compound panicles ; peduncles and pedicels 

 tomentose and scabrous. Much-branched shrubs, with the branches 

 purplish and villous ; natives of Asia ; of the same culture as Philadelphus, 



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