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Decumaria (Latin, decumus, tenth, referring to the number of the parts of the flower). Saxifragaceae. Climbing shrubs, cultivated for their handsome glossy foliage and clusters of attractive white flowers.
Climbing by aerial rootlets: lvs. deciduous, opposite, petioled: fls. in terminal peduncled corymbs, small, white, perfect; sepals and petals 7-10; stamens 20-30: fr. a 5-10-celled ribbed caps, opening between the ribs, with numerous minute seeds.—One species in E. N. Amer. and one in China.
These are ornamental climbing shrubs with handsome glossy foliage and fragrant white flowers, forming a corymb of feathery appearance, well adapted for covering walls, rocks, trellis work and trunks of trees; tender, but the American species survives in sheltered positions as far north as Massachusetts, while the Chinese is more tender. They thrive in almost any humid soil. Propagation is by greenwood cuttings in summer under glass, rarely by seeds.
D. sinensis, Oliv. Very similar to the preceding; less high: lvs. generally oblong, obtuse or obtusish, 1½-3 in. long and H-l in. broad: pedicels appressed-pubescent. Cent. China. H.I. 18:1741. Alfred Rehder.
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