70 FLOWERING SHRUBS. 



tiful flowers in corymbs, and was branchy only 

 at or near the summit. There were also some 

 young trees of Cookea punctata, which bears the 

 fruit called Whampee by the Chinese, and ano- 

 ther species of the same genus from Manilla, 

 which differed, however, materially from the 

 preceding, from the foliage having a very 

 strong taste and. smell of aniseed : from this 

 peculiarity it has been named Cookea anisetta. 



Besides a multitude of the Chrysanthemum 

 indica of different brilliant hues, in which China 

 is so prolific, both for the number, size, and 

 beauty of the varieties, Mr. Beale has a low 

 shrubby species from Japan, which bears a 

 profusion of small dark-red flowers. I saw a 

 beautiful drawing of one of the plants in full 

 bloom, but the plant itself, at the time of my 

 departure from Macao, had not entirely ex- 

 panded its flowers.* There is a flourishing- 

 plant of the single Japanese Caucus, '[ nu- 



* Mr. Beale assured me that for four years he has been 

 endeavouring to get specimens of this shrub to England, but 

 as yet without success, they having all perished on the 

 passage. 



f There were also some splendid large varieties of the 

 Hibiscus rosa cJmiensis, of different tints ; and the beautiful 

 Hibiscus mutabilis changes its blossoms, after their expan- 

 sion, from a white to a beautiful rose colour. The celebrated 



