Tab; O144, 
ViBURNUM CaRLESII. - 
Corea. 
CapriFoLIackak. ‘Tribe SaMBUCEAE. 
Visurnum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 8. 
Viburnum (§ Euviburnum) Carlesii, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxiii. 
p- 300; Bean in Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. i. p. 306; species ex affini- 
tate V. cotinifolii, a qua tamen foliis rotundato-ovatis cymis densioribus 
et corollae, tubo cylindrico longiore differt. 
Frutex laxe ramosus, paucipedalis, stellato-tomentosus, ramis rectis rigidis 
glabrescentibus. Folia breviter petiolata, crassa, papyracea, rotundato- 
ovata vel interdum fere orbicularia 2°5-5 cm. diametro, crenato-dentata, 
supra parce subtus dense tomentosa, venis primariis elevatis in dentes 
excurrentibus. Cymae_ terminales, subsessiles, densissimae, 4-8 cm. 
diametro, umbellatae; bracteolae crassae, lineares, calycem aequantes. 
Calycis dentes ovati, erecti, obtusi, obscure puberuli. Oorolla glabra, 
hypocraterimorpha, albo-rubra, tubus cylindricus, 1-1°3 cm. longus; lobi 
rotundati, circiter 1 cm. diametro. Stamina inclusa. Stylus brevissimus, 
crassus, stigmate capitato. Fructus, immaturus tantum visus, glaber, 
valde compressus, sulcatus, calycis limbo aucto coronatus. 
Viburnum Carlesit was originally described from dried 
specimens collected by Mr. W. R. Carles, C.M.G., and Mr. 
Wykeham Perry in Western Corea. In 1801 Messrs. L. 
Boehmer & Co., nurserymen at Yokohama, Japan, sent a 
cultivated specimen to Kew to be named, with the infor- 
mation that it had been raised from seed obtained from 
Corea in 1885. A living plant was received from the 
same firm in 1902, and this flowered in the Arboretum in 
May, 1906. Le Jardin for August, 1902, p. 229, repro- 
duces a photograph of a cluster of flowering branches 
received from a Mr. T. Eckhardt, also of Yokohama. The 
original description is also repeated, and the remarks :— 
**[n foliage and general appearance this species closely re- 
sembles the Indian V, cotinifolium, from which it is readily 
distinguished by the strictly cylindrical tube of the 
corolla,” have been incorrectly translated :—* Kn feuillage 
et apparénce générale, cette espéce ressemble beaucoup a 
Vindien V. cotinifolium, duquel il se distingue seulement 
par la position strictement erigée du tube de sa corolle.”’ 
The same photograph was reproduced in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, October 11th, 1892. 
January Ist, 1907. 
