244 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



long as or a little longer than the leaves, unusually small in the 

 genus. 



A small hardy evergreen, well suited for planting in situations 

 where neat and choice shrubs are the objects required. It flowers 

 freely in May. 



May 29, 1847. 



11. Viburnum macrocephalum. Fortune* 



Received in June, 1844, from Mr. Fortune, from Chusan 

 and Shanghae, as a fine Shrub. 



A deciduous bush, covered all over with coarse, starry, scurfy 

 hairs. The leaves are about 3 inches long, very exactly ovate, 



* V. macrocephalum ; ramis petiolis foliis subter pedunculisque stellatim 

 furfuraceo-pubescentibus, foliis ovatis planis obtusis denticulatis scabrius- 

 culis, cymis compositis neutris maximis subpyramidatis. — K. F. 



