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convex and slightly hairy, concave beneath; capsule crowned with the 
extremity of the persistent tube of the calyx, oblong, cylindrical, marked 
longitudinally with a not very deep furrow, bilocular, two valved, brownish. 
This species inhabits China and Corea ; it flowers in May. This will be a 
precious acquisition, as its variety with white flowers will enable us to make 
masses of difi'erent colors with the same species. 
7. D. grandiflora, Sieb. and Zucc; D. corceensis, D. C; Weigela eorceensis 
Thunb.; Sorei Ufsugi, Kaempf. Japanese name, Hahome Utsugi, or Ut- 
sugi from the Hakome mountains ; Chinese, Kintai-kwa. 
Shrub from one and a half to two feet high, resembling in habit Loydcera 
alpigena. Branches spreading; the older ones rounded, covered with a 
light gray, thin bark ; the younger four angled, green glabrous. Leaves 
opposite, decussate, pendant, with petioles, nearly cylindrical, channeled 
above, slightly dilated at the base, ciliate oboval ; more rarely broadly 
elliptic, long 'Cuspidate and finely serrulate to the top, with unequally dis- 
tant serratures ; smooth above, rather pubescent beneath with short ap- 
pressed hairs. Flowers terminating the short branches, axillary and form- 
ing a kind of dichotomous corymb. Peduncle generally erect compressed, 
four-angled, furnished at the top with two linear-lanceolate bracts, acumi- 
nate, ciliate, very entire, often foliaceous, variable in size. Minor pedun- 
cles bibracteolate, three flowered. Calyx gamosepalous, persistent; tube 
slender, cylindrical or slightly angular, coherent to the ovary, smooth limb 
with 5 linear pointed divisions, entire, equal, green, lightly ciliate. Corolla 
gamopetalous, springing from the extremity of the tube of the calyx, larger 
than in most of its congeners, green before opening, afterward of a more 
or less deep rose, glabrous, tube erect, cylindrical at the base, dilating 
towards the top and nearly four-angled, limb with five projecting divisions, 
two of which are rather smaller, entire, glabrous. Stamens five, spread- 
ing, disposed as in the other species, filaments thread shaped, equal. Ovary 
coherent with the calyx, two or rarely three-celled. Capsule cylindrical or 
subclavate, marked with two or three shallow furrows. 
What especially distinguishes this species, is the size and quantity of its 
flowers, its large limber leaves, of a bright green, with ciliate petioles, as 
well as the changing color of its flowers, a character which has also been 
remarked by Kaempfer; they are greenish before opening, later rose col- 
ored, finally carmine red. It grows in the empire of Japan, on the moun- 
tains about two thousand feet above the sea level ; it delights in the ravines 
and the valleys, where it is often found in large masses. It flowers in May. 
