Tas. 4568. 
DOMBEYA visuRNIFLORA. 
Viburnum-flowered Dombeya. 
Nat. Ord. ByrTNERIACEZ.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, involucello triphyllo unilaterali cinctus. 
Petala 5. Stamina 15-20, filamentis vix basi coalitis, 5 sterilia, 2-3 fertilia 
inter quodque sterile. Stylus 1, apice in stigmata 5 subreflexa fissus. Carpella 
5, bivalvia, 1 «© polysperma, in capsulam arcte connexa. Cotyledones contortu- 
plicatee, bifide. De Cand. 
DomBEya viburniflora ; arborea, ramis petiolisque hirsutis, foliis longe petiolatis 
cordatis plerumque serrulatis supra pubescentibus subtus tomentosis, sti- 
pulis ovato-acuminatis, pedunculis elongatis, corymbis compositis, calycibus 
reflexis, pedicellis bracteisque lanatis, petalis oblique spathulatis (albis) sicci- 
tate ochraceis nitidis. 
DomBeya viburniflora. Bojer, in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 2nd Ser. p. 796. 
A native of the Comorin Islands, near Madagascar, according 
to Professor Bojer, who introduced the tree thence to Mauritius, 
from which latter island we have received it at Kew. With us, 
confined in a tub, it has attained a height of 12-14 feet, so that 
its rather small white flowers are not very conspicuous objects. 
Its nearest affinity is with D. palmata, Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rariores ; 
but the latter has seven spreading lobes to the leaves, and larger 
flowers with broader petals. It flowers with us in February. 
Descr. A éree with us attaining a height of fourteen feet or 
more, with a bushy head of copious ranches: the branches and 
long petioles clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves moderately 
large, cordate, rather soft to the touch, three-lobed, the /odes 
acuminate, straight (pointing forward), serrated, with rather a 
deep sinus at the base, upper side green, downy; under side 
pale, almost woolly: stipules rather large, ovate, acuminate, 
herbaceous, deciduous. Peduncles a span and more long, from 
the axils of the upper leaves, and bearing a compound dichoto- 
mously divided corymd of rather small white flowers. Bracteas 
and involucre ovate, caducous. Calyz of five ovato-lanceolate, re- 
MARCH Ist, 1851. 
