184 Saxifragee—Deutzia. 
6. DEUTZIA. 
Small deciduous shrubs with opposite pranches 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 
otten 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. gracilis (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 crect shrub with slender stems 
cil. Gnat-sie) 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 crendte flore 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. Thetrue D. scabra does not appear to be in cultivation. 
D. Fortinet appears to be a form of the foregoing, that is 
if we have seen the right plant. The Himalayan species 
coryinbésa and staminéa have almost disappeared from our 
gardens. They are both very showy species, with cymose or 
corymbose white flowers and foliage similar to crenitta. 
Decumavria sarmentosa is an allied American plant of 
climbing habit with.small white odoriferous flowers having 7 
