1 86 Saxifragece Philadelphus. 



Flowers white, large, sweet-scented, appearing in June or July 

 North America. 



4. Ph. inodorus. In this species the leaves are quite gla- 

 brous, very obscurely toothed, acuminate and ovate or lanceolate 

 in outline. Flowers white, large, scentless, terminating the 

 short lateral branches. This blossoms about the same time as 

 the last. North America. Ph. Lewisii and Ph. hirsutus are 

 also North American species. These have smaller flowers, and 

 the latter is a very dwarf hairy shrub. Ph. Satsumi, syn. 

 Ph. Chinensis, is a slender-growing species with long narrow 

 leaves and large white flowers ; from Japan. 



TRIBE IV. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate exstipulate simple often 

 glandular-serrate coriaceous leaves. Stamens of the same 

 number as the petals. 



8. ESCALL5NIA. 



A South American genus of evergreen shrubs with white or 

 red flowers in terminal panicles, or more rarely axillary. 

 Calyx superior. Petals 5, linear-spathulate, with an erect claw 

 and spreading limb. Stamens 5, epigynous. Fruit capsular, 

 2- or 3-celled, many-seeded ; seeds minute. Named in honour 

 of Escallon, a Spanish traveller. Some of the species are hardy 

 in the South-west of England, where they succeed well near 

 the sea. 



1 . E. macrdntha. Thrs is one of the best, having rather 

 large crimson-red flowers. It is a branching erect shrub about 

 6 feet high, glandular-pubescent on the younger parts. Leaves 

 oblong or elliptical, serrated, coriaceous, shining, glandular- 

 dotted below. Chiloe. 



2. E. rubra. A more slender species with obovate deeply- 

 serrated leaves and smaller flowers. There are two varieties, 

 one with red flowers, and the other white. Chili. 



E. pterocladon, from Patagonia, is a very different plant with 

 small leaves and small axillary white and pink flo\vers. It is 

 remarkable for its winged hairy branches. E. floribunda is 

 an evergreen shrub with Arbutus-like leaves and numerous 

 white flowers. 



Itea Virginica, an allied deciduous shrub from North 

 America, resembles the Willow in habit, hence the generic 



