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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



9. Viburnum petcattjm. Thunberg in Linn, Trans, ii. 

 p. 322 ; Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Japonica, i. p. 81, 

 f. 38. 



A handsome deciduous bush, bearing some resemblance to the 

 N. American Viburnum dentatum. The leaves are broad, 

 coarsely serrate, somewhat plaited, dark green, narrowed to the 

 base, and furnished with an abrupt point (cuspidate). The 

 flowers are white, in round heads, of the size and with the ap- 

 pearance of the "double " Gueldres Rose. 



Mr. Fortune says that this plant is a native of the northern 

 parts of the Chinese Empire, and was found cultivated in the 

 gardens of the rich, by whom it was much admired. When full 

 grown it forms a bush eight or ten feet high. It is a most pro- 

 fuse bloomer, forming numerous heads of snow-ball flowers, like 

 the common Gueldres Rose. It will, doubtless, prove perfectly 

 hardy in England ; and, on account of its neat habit, will pro- 

 bably become a great favourite in our gardens. 



April 10, 1847. 



10. Berberis parvifeora.* 



Presented to the Society when a small plant, about 3 years 

 ago, by Messrs. Lee of Hammersmith, who were not 

 aware from whence it came. Its resemblance to Ber- 

 beris virgata raises a suspicion that it is some South 

 American species. 



A slender evergreen bush. Leaves about 1J inch long and f 

 inch wide, glaucous on the upper side, clear green on the under, 

 with from 3 to 5 spreading spiny teeth near the end. Flowers 

 as deep a yellow as those of B. dulcis, in a few-flowered raceme as 



* B. parviflora ; sempervirens, foliis angustis obovatis versus apicem 3-5- 

 lobis spinosis supra glaucescentibus subtus viridibus, racemis paucifloris 

 foliis paulo longioribus, floribus parvis vitellinis. — J. L. 



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