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Saxifrages Deutzia . 



6. DEtTTZIA. 



Small deciduous slirubs with opposite oranches and minute 

 stellate often rough hairs. Leaves ovate or 

 lanceolate, serrulate. Flowers scentless, white 

 or pink, solitary, racemose or corymbose, axil- 

 lary or terminal. Petals 5, induplicate or 

 imbricate. Stamens 10, epigynous ; filaments 

 often dilated, and furnished with a lobe at the 

 apex on each side of the anther. Fruit cap- 

 sular, small, globose, 3- to 5 -celled, many- 

 seeded. About half a dozen species are known, 

 nearly all of which are or have been in culti- 

 vation. The name is commemorative of one 

 of Thunberg's assistants in Japan. 



1, D. grdcilis (fig. 98). This is the smallest 

 species, and at the same time the prettiest in 

 cultivation, the habit being less straggling 

 than in the other species. It grows from 1 to 

 2 feet high, with numerous slender stems and 

 smooth leaves and small numerous white 

 flowers. It is quite hardy in the south, though 

 a very severe season will destroy the beauty of 

 the blossom ; but for early forcing it is almost 

 without a rival. A native of Japan. 



D. crenata, syn. D. scabra of gardens. A 

 Fig. 98. Deutzia gra- very handsome erect shrub with slender stems 

 cms. anat. S ize.) from 4 to 8 feet high. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, rigidly serrulate, rough to the touch. Flowers racemose 

 or paniculate. The single-flowered white variety is usually 

 known by the latter name, and the double varieties by the 

 former, as crendta fibre pleno, and purpurea plena. The first 

 of these two varieties has pink and white flowers, and is already 

 widely grown ; but the second is of quite recent acquisition. 

 Japan. The true D. scabra does not appear to be in cultivation. 

 D. Fortunei appears to be a form of the foregoing, that is 

 if we have seen the right plant. The Himalayan species 

 corymbosa and staminea have almost disappeared from our 

 gardens. They are both very showy species, with cymose or 

 corymbose white flowers and foliage similar to crenata. 



Decumaria sarmentosa is an allied American plant of 

 climbing habit with -small white odoriferous flowers having 7 



