186 Saxifragee—P hiladelphus. 
Flowers white, large, sweet-scented, appearing in June or July 
North America. 
4. Ph. inodérus.—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. hirsitus are 
also North American species. These have smaller flowers, and 
the latter is a very dwarf hairy shrub. Ph. Satswmi, syn. 
Ph. Chinénsis, is a slender-growing species with long narrow 
leaves and large white flowers ; from Japan. 
Trisu IV.--ESCALLONIEA. 
Trees or shrubs with alternate exstipulate simple often 
glandular-serrate coriaceous leaves. Stamens of the same 
number as the petals. 
8. ESCALLONIA. 
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 suceeed well near 
the sea. 
1, B. mucrintha.—This 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. EH. 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 flowers. It is 
remarkable for its winged hairy branches. £. floribinda is 
an evergreen shrub with Arbutus-like leaves and numerous 
white flowers. 
TItea Virginica, an allied deciduous shrub from North 
America, resembles the Willow in habit, hence the generic 
