Upwards of fifty species of Viburnum have now been 
recorded from China and the area of the genus encircles the 
northern hemisphere in temperate regions, and extends into 
the southern hemisphere in Madagascar as well as the Andes, 
where there are species so like some of the Chinese ones as 
to be easily mistaken for these in a dried state. 
Descriprion.— Shrubby, 4-5 ft. high, with long, straight 
flowering-branches, at first clothed with a stellate pubescence, 
later glabrescent. Leaves persistent, shortly stalked, thick, 
leathery, lanceolate-oblong or ovate-oblong, usually 1-3 in. 
long, sometimes 6 in. long, obtuse, quite entire, smooth and 
shining on the upper surface, lower surface densely clothed 
with a white indumentum composed of multiradiate, stellate 
hairs; primary veins few, impressed above, elevated below. 
Flowers all similar, 1~} in. across, densely cymose; cymes 
compound, umbellate, terminal, 2-3 in. across, shortly 
stalked; pedicels shorter than the ovaries, pubescent. 
Calyx smooth; teeth small, obtuse, about ,; in. long. 
Corolla rotate-campanulate ; lobes broad, rounded. Stamens 
a little longer than the corolla. Ovary 1-celled, l-ovuled. 
Fruit dry, oblong, flattened, smooth, black, about 4 in. long. 
—W. B. Hemstey. : 
CuLtivation.—As seen growing in the Coombe Wood 
Nursery last spring, this shrub gave the impression that it 
would eventually prove one of the most desirable of recent 
introductions from China. The habit was neat and bushy, 
and the flowers very freely borne. Like the other species of 
the genus, it can, no doubt, be increased easily by cuttings, 
and like them, too, it will thrive in ordinary well-cultivated 
ground, especially where the soil can be kept from getting 
excessively dry during the summer months. Mr. Wilson 
records the species as growing on limestone.—W. J. Bran. 
Fig. 1, portion of a young branch; 2, a stellate hair from the same; 3, a 
partially expanded flower ; 4, a corolla laid open showing the attachment of the - 
stamens; 5, calyx and pistil :—all enlarged, 
