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those "which flower often reclining, covered with a fine cinereous bark, often 
green while young, finely velvety, pubescent; leaves pendant, opposite, 
decussate, short petioled, often sessile in the vigorous barren branches, 
rounded or wedge-shape at the base, oval, or oval-oblong, acuminate, pointed 
narrowly serrulate to the summit, velvety, pubescent on each side ; flowers 
at the end of the lateral branches, or commencing in the axil of the leaves, 
and forming a kind of corymb of variable size ; peduncles velvety, com- 
pressed, four angled, with two acuminate, velvety, very entire bracts ; calyx 
persistent, gamosepalous, tube cohering with the ovary, slender, cylindrical, 
velvety ; limb with five equal divisions, linear pointed, very entire, velvety 
and ciliate outside, nearly glabrous within; corolla gamopetalous, purple, 
caducous, funnel-shaped, inserted at the summit of the tube of the calyx, 
glabrous within, entirely pubescent without ; tube cylindrical, dilated from 
the base and clariform, erect ; limb of five spreading divisions, and some- 
what unequal, the upper being rather larger, the two lower smaller, all oval, 
obtuse, very entire, ciliate ; capsule cylindrical, velvety, traversed longitu- 
dinally by two furrows, crowned at the summit by the superior part of the 
calyx bilocular, two valved. 
This shrub inhabits the highest mountains of Japan, where it is very 
common; its flowers, which are numerous, purple, very showy, and very 
variable in size, appear in May and June. 
6. D. hortensis, Sieb. and Zucc, with red flowers. Japanese name, Beni- 
saki Utsugi, or Utsugi with red flowers; Sirosaki, or Utsugi with white 
flowers. — A shrub about two feet high ; branches opposite, decussate, cylin- 
drical, or slightly angular, very velvety, especially while young ; bark thin, 
ashy gray, or brownish ; leaves opposite decussate, short petioled, rounded, 
pubescent above, oboval, or oblong, acuminate, or long pointed, finely 
dentate, crepelate ; the oldest velvety, downy, whitish underneath, variable 
in size ; flowers axillary, terminating short branches ; peduncles very erect, 
nearly four angled, with two very velvety pointed bracts at the base ; calyx 
gamosepalous velvety, with a tube slender, cylindrical, or slightly angular ; 
corolla gamopetalous, funnel-shaped, superior, springing from the mouth of 
the calyx, red or white, tube slender, cylindrical until the middle, then 
angular, slightly downy outside, glabrous within ; limb in five regular divi- 
sions, spreading, oval, obtuses, very entire, nearly equal; stamens five, 
spreading, adherent to the tube of the corolla, alternating with its divi- 
sions; ovary cohering with the tube of the calyx, oblong, cylindrical, 
bilocular, each cell many seeded ; style filiform, smooth, as long or a little 
longer than the stamens ; stigma orbicular, thick, fleshy, peltate above. 
