CAPRIFOLIACEAE. — VIBURNUM 113 
These specimens differ somewhat from the type in the leaves being sparingly 
furnished with fasciculate hairs on the whole under surface and sometimes gla- 
brous above, in the generally oblong-ovate shape of the leaves and in the stamens 
being slightly longer than the corolla lobes. The fruit is bright red, ovoid, about 
8 mm. high and furnished with scattered stellate hairs; the stone is broadly ovate, 
much compressed, pointed, one-ribbed on the dorsal and two-ribbed on the ventral 
side, about 6 mm. high and 5 mm. broad. V. hupehense Rehder, which much resem- 
bles this species in the velutinous tomentum of the inflorescence, differs chiefly in 
the stipulate petioles and the denser fasciculate pubescence, while the leaves of 
V. Wilsonii have mostly faseiculate hairs on the upper surface while young, 
becoming glabrous at maturity and are but slightly pubescent beneath. 
Viburnum brevipes Rehder, n. sp. 
Frutex erectus, 2-3 m. altus ramulis junioribus dense stellato- 
pilosis et hispidis tertio anno glabrescentibus, griseo-brunneis. Gem- 
mae perulis 4 exterioribus fulvo-flavescentibus sparse adpresse setu- 
losis. Folia breviter petiolata, membranacea oblongo-obovata, rarius 
obovata, subito acuminata, basi late cuneata, subito in petiolum 
contracta, dentata ima basi excepta, 5-7 cm. longa et 2-3.5 cm. lata, 
Supra pilis fasciculatis tuberculis minutis insidentibus conspersa, 
subtus fasciculato-pilosa praesertim ad venas et glandulis numerosis 
interspersa, utrinsecus venis 6-8 in dentes exeuntibus; petioli esti- 
pulati, 2-3 mm. longi, dense hispidi. Corymbus 5-7 cm. diam., radiis 
plerumque 5, fasciculato-pilosus; flores ignoti. Drupae plerumque in 
radiis tertii ordinis, ovoideae, rubrae; putamen ovoideum, acutum, 
valde compressum, circa 6 mm. altum et 4.5 mm. latum, dorso leviter 
bi-, ventre trisuleatum, testa minute punctulata, pallide purpureo- 
brunnea. 
Western Hupeh: Chang-yang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300-1800, 
October 1907 (No. 447, as to the fruiting specimens, type), Novem- 
ber 1907 (No. 676). 
Viburnum brevipes bears in the shape of the leaves and in the very short petioles 
a great resemblance to V. erosum Thunberg, which, however, is easily distinguished 
by the stipulate petioles, by the different, not hispid, and often very slight pu- 
bescence of the inflorescence, petioles and branchlets, the absence of the glands on 
the under side of the leaves and by the smaller and less compressed stone. Its near- 
est relationship seems to be with V. dilatatum Thunberg, but that species is readily 
ished by its much longer petioles and broader leaves and by the generally 
forked hairs of the under side of the leaves. I am inclined to refer one of Wilson's 
Hupeh specimens collected in 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 944), which is in flower, 
provisorily to this species on account of the short petioles, but the leaves have 
the shape of those of V. dilatatum. Viburnum brevipes is in cultivation and may 
be expected to flower soon. 
Viburnum ovatifolium Rehder in Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, II. 115 
(1908); in Fedde, Rep. Sp. Nov. 184 (1911). 
