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1846, from Mexico, as a species of Bouvardia, with 

 " scarlet and yellow flowers." 



A hairj^ bright green shrub, with short-stalked ovate leaves, 

 intermediate three-toothed stipules, and scarlet tubular smooth 

 flowers nearly an inch and a half long. The segments of the 

 corolla are very sharp, and spread flat when fully expanded. In 

 a wild state it forms a stiff' bush, with short lateral upright arms, 

 having about 9 flowers at the end of eaclu In cultivation it is 

 about as graceful as a Fuchsia macrostema. 



It is a small greenhouse shrub, requiring the same kind of treat- 

 ment and soil as the old Bouvardia triphylla, and freely producing 

 its flowers from the old wood, if rather stunted. It should be 

 kept nearly dry all the winter. It is handsome when not over- 

 grown and old, and flowers all the summer and autumn. 



Junel, 1848. 



25. Viburnum dilatatum. Thunb., Fl. Japonica, p. 124. 



Received from Mr. Fortune, on his return from China, in 

 May, 1846; said to have been collected at Tein-tung 

 near Ning-po, in May, 1844. 



This is a small shrub, with the appearance of V. dentatum. 

 It has bright-green plaited leaves, with a few rough hairs on 

 both sides, and on the young wood, and a regular coarse toothing 

 at the edge. Tiie flowers are in small spreading cymes, white, 

 and destitute of all tendency to acquire the radiant condition of 

 the Gueldres rose and its allies. 



It grows freely in any good garden soil, and is easily in- 

 creased by cuttings of the half-ripened shoots. It is of little im- 

 portance except in a collection, as the flower-heads are not showy. 



May, 1848. 



26. Muss^NDA MACROPHYLLA. WalHcIi, in RoxhurgK s Flora 



hidica, vol. ii. p. 228. 



Received from Messrs. Knight and Perry, Nurserymen, 

 King's Road, Chelsea, in July, 1845. 



The branches of this plant are covered with coarse reddish 

 hairs ; the leaves also are hairy, ovate-oblong, acute, with bifid 

 red-edged reflexed stipule.*. The flowers grow in small close 

 heads, and are hairy like the leaves. The divisions of the calyx 

 are ovate-oblong, stunted, and red-edged, with the exception of 

 one which has a long stalk, is the form and size of the ordinary 

 foliage, and has a chalky white colour a little enlivened by a few 



