644 VIBURNUM 



long, scurfy. Flowers white, uniform and perfect, in. wide, produced in 

 stalked usually five-branched cymes, 2 ins. across; the stalks covered with 

 stellate scurfy down. Native of Manchuria and China. 



V. CARLESII, Hems ley. 

 (Dot. Mag., 1.8114.) 



A deciduous shrub of rounded but thin, open habit, 3 to 4 ft. high 

 (possibly more); young shoots densely clothed with starry down. Leaves 

 broadly ovate, with often a slightly heart-shaped base, pointed, irregularly 



VIBURNUM CABLKSII. 



toothed; I to 3^ ins. long, f to 2-| ins. wide; dull green above, greyish below, 

 both surfaces soft with starry down; stalk about J in. long. Inflorescence 

 a terminal, rounded cluster 2 to 3 ins. across, composed of very fragrant 

 flowers, all fertile. Corolla in. across, at first pink then white, with a 

 slender tube ^ in. long. Fruit not seen. 



Native of Corea; introduced from that country to Japan in 1885, by Mr 

 Unger of the firm of L. Boehmer & Co., Yokohama. A single plant was 

 sent to Kew by the same firm in 1902, which represented its first introduction 

 to Europe. It is undoubtedly one of the most delightful of Viburnums, not 

 only for the beauty of the flowers, but for a fragrance unrivalled for 

 sweetness in the genus. Although apparently quite hardy when fu'ly 

 established, so far as one can at present judge, it needs *a little nursing when 

 young, and is better grown in pots and wintered in a cool frame the first 



