Tas. 6215. 
VIBURNUM pimatatuom. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. CAPRIFOLIACE®.—Tribe SAMBUCER. 
Genus Visurnum, Linn. (Benth et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol. ii., p. 3). 
VIBURNUM dilatatum ; ramulis petiolis inflorescentia nervisque foliorum subtus 
substrigoso-hirtis, foliis petiolatis ovato- v. obovato- orbiculatis obtuse 
acuminatis grosse dentatis subrugosis, stipulis 0, cymis multifloris breviter 
v. longius pedunculatis, floribus omnibus consimilibus, calycis lobis rotun- 
datis ciliatis, corolle rotate lobis rotundatis dorso pilosis, filamentis corollam 
superantibus, stigmate obtuse-trilobio, fructu ovoideo compressissimo. 
V. dilatatum, Thunbd., Fl. Jap., p. 124; DC. Prod., vol. iv., p. 329; Sieb. et 
Zucc., Fl, Jap., vol. i., p. 172; A. Gray, Bot. Japan, p. 393 (excl. Syn, 
V. erosi) ; Miquel, Prol. Fl. Jap., 154. 
A very handsome hardy shrub, with apparently a wide 
distribution in Japan, having been collected. in various 
localities from Nagasaki and Yokohama to Hakodadi—that 
is, nearly throughout the length of the archipelago. 
The genus Viburnum is well represented in Japan, and 
there are several species that have not yet been introduced 
into Europe. Thunberg, in 1787, described no less than nine 
Japanese ones, and Miquel, in his ‘‘ Prolusio Flore Japonice,”’ 
enumerates twelve. Several of these are very widely spread 
over the northern hemisphere ; amongst them is our Guelder 
Rose (V. Opulus), also the American V. lantanoides, which 
extends into the Himalaya. The long-known V. odora- 
tissimum of our garden also extends into India, being found 
in the Khasia Mountains. V. Sandankewa again, figured in 
our last year’s volume (Tab. 6172), is very closely allied to 
a Himalayan species. “ 
V. dilatatum was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who sent 
flowering specimens for figuring to Kew in June last, with 
the information that it is perfectly hardy. It is omitted in 
ee mi monograph of the genus (Kidb. Vidensk. Meddel., 
3S 
Descr. A shrub with the young branches, petioles, 
inflorescence, and nerves of leaves beneath clothed with 
rigid, white, simple, and forked, rather spreading hairs, 
Feprvary Ist, 1876, 
