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purplish red, very floriferous. The two latter are usually 

 referred to D. rosea. 



D. Middendorfiana has nearly sessile ovate-lanceolate finely 

 reticulated leaves hairy on the nerves, and yellowish white 

 flowers dotted with pink on the lower petal. The latter are 

 arranged in terminal panicles, and are peculiar in having the 

 anthers combined. A native of Siberia. Z>. purpurata is 

 considered to be a variety of this species. 



D. multiflora, syn. floribunda. A Japanese species, very 

 distinct in its narrow tubular purplish corollas only slightly 

 expanded towards the mouth. D. Canadensis is an allied 

 species with yellow flowers. 



7. VIBtTRNUM. 



Shrubs or trees, evergreen or deciduous. Leaves simple, 

 with or without stipules. Flowers small, jointed on the pedicel, 

 in terminal or axillary cymes, corymbs or panicles, pink or 

 white, outer flowers sometimes larger and barren. Calyx- 

 limb minute. Corolla rotate, regular, 5-lobed. Stamens 5. 

 Fruit a 1 -seeded dry or fleshy terete or flattened drupe. A con- 

 siderable genus, abounding in the temperate and warm regions 

 of the north and extending to the Andes of South America. 

 Derivation of the generic name uncertain. 



1. V. Tlnus (tig. 118). Lau- 

 restine or Laurustinus. This 

 needs no further comment than 

 to mention that there are several 

 varieties in cultivation, differ- 

 ing in the size and hairiness, or 

 in the lighter or darker tint of 

 the foliage. The variegated form 

 is by no means desirable. The 

 ordinary form is perhaps the 

 most free-flowering. The variety 

 stricta, with very dark foliage, is 

 perhaps a little hardier than the 

 common one, though neither so 

 graceful nor so free-flowering. 

 It is a native of the South of 

 Europe, and the only evergreen 



species generally cultivated. Fig ' m Vibum Tinus. Q na t. size.) 



2, V. Lantana. Wayfaring Tree. A native shrub or small 



