[Plate 20.] 



THE CRIMPED GUELDRES ROSE. 



(viburnum plicatum; var. dilatata.) 

 A Rarely Shrub, from China, belonging to the Natural Order of Caprifoils. 



Specific Character. 



THE CRIMPED GUELDEES EOSE.— Leaves rounded at the base, ovate or roundish-ovate, abruptly pointed, finely- 

 serrate, closely ribbed and veined so as to appear plaited, smooth on the upper, closely downy on the under side ; 

 flowers radiating, all sterile in the cultivated plant, enlarged and collected in a globose cyme. 



Viburnum plicatum, Thuriberg ; Siebold and Zuccarini. Fl. Japonica, I. 81, t. 38 ; Botanical Register, 1847, t. 51. 



THIS plant, procured for the Horticultural Society by Mr. Fortune, is described in their 

 journal as " a handsome deciduous bush, bearing some resemblance to the N. American 

 Viburnum dentatum." Mr. Fortune says that it is a native of the northern parts of the 

 Chinese Empire, where it was found by him cultivated in the gardens of the rich, by whom 

 it was much admired. When full grown it makes a bush eight or ten feet high. It is a 

 most profuse bloomer, forming numerous heads of snow-ball flowers, like the common 

 Gueldres Rose. 



Siebold and Zuccarini speak of it thus : — " This Viburnum is one of the most beautiful 

 plants that are cultivated in Japan. Its name, Satsuma Temari, indicates that it inhabits 

 Satsuma, the most southern province of Kiusia (31° N. lat.). It was probably in the 

 beginning imported from China. Now-a-days it is seen in every garden. Its balls of white 

 sterile flowers give it the appearance of the Gueldres Rose ; its habit, and broad oval plaited 

 (crimped) leaves, are more like those of the Wayfaring Tree {Viburnum Lantana) ; but it 

 only grows from four to six feet high.'" 



