Tas. 6172. 
VIBU RNUM SanpDankwa. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. CapriFoLiAce#.—Tribe SAMBUCEZ. 
Genus Visurnum, Linn.; (Benth. 5 Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 3). 
Visurnum Sandankwa ; ramis teretibus verruculosis, foliis petiolatis ellip- 
ticis elliptico-ovatisve obtusis v. subacutis basi rotundatis v. acutis 
grosse crenato-serratis v. fere integerrimis coriaceis glaberrimis, petiolo 
erasso 1—3-pollicari aspero, nervis paucis validis arcuatis, corymbis 
axillaribus v. terminalibus parvis erectis paucifloris breviter peduncu- 
latis glabris v. puberulis basi ebracteatis, bracteolis parvis herbaceis 
ovato-lanceolatis, ovario subgloboso, calycis dentibus parvis ovato- 
rotundatis, corolle albz tubo }-pollicari, limbi lobis suberectis concavis 
rotundatis. 
V. Sandankwa, Hassk.”Retzia, pug. i. p. 88; Mig. Prol. Fl. Jap., p. 156; 
Walp. Ann., vol. v. p. 96. 
A hardy evergreen shrub, cultivated in Japan, whence we 
have cultivated specimens gathered by Maximoviez at 
Nagaski, and native ones from the Loochoo Islands, gathered 
by C. Wright during the American North Pacific Exploring 
Expedition in 1853-6, and subsequently in the same island 
by Dr. Weyrich, communicated from the St. Petersburg 
Botanic Gardens. Hasskarl, who describes it from cultivated 
specimens, says that it very rarely flowers ; Miquel, in his 
Prolusio, gives a description of it, but no habitat ; he how- 
ever indicates its affinity with the Himalayan /. cylindricum, 
Don, and V. erubescens, Wall., to the former of which it is 
most nearly allied in the concave corolla limb, but differs m 
the short peduncle of the corymb, which is not glandular, 
and in the toothed leaves. 
V. Sandankwa has been long cultivated at the Scilly Islands, 
where the late proprietor, Aug. Smith, Esq., M.P., formed 
at Tresco Abbey a magnificent collection of half-hardy herbs, 
shrubs, and trees, principally procured (and this amongst 
them) from the Royal Gardens, Kew, and from Messrs. Veitch 
of the then Exeter Nurseries. This collection is now 
sedulously cared for by his heir, J. Dorrien Smith, Esq., 
JUNE Ist, 1875. 
