Tab. 8672. 



VIBURNUM BETULIFOLIUM. 



Central China. 



Caprifoliaceab. Tribe Sambuceae. 

 Viburnum, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 3. 



Viburnum betulifolium, Batalin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xiii. p. 371 (1894) ; 

 Behder in Sargent, Trees d Shrubs, vol. ii. p. 99, t. 147 (1908) ; 

 C. K. Schneider, Handb. der LaubolzJc. vol. ii. p. 648 ; Bean, Trees <£ 

 Shrubs, vol. ii. p. 643 (1914) ; species V. lobophyllo, Graebner, quam maxime 

 affinis, foliis basi saepissime cuneatis rnargine altius dentatis, pyrenis 

 minoribus compresso-rotundatis obtusis nee ovoideis subacutis distincte 

 sulcatis distinguenda. 



Frutex 1 • 5-2-metralis, novellis purpureo-brunneis glabris. Folia ovata, 

 ovato-oblonga vel late rhomboidea, acuta vel acuminata, basi saepissime 

 late cuneata nonnunquam rotundata, rnargine nisi triente basali grosse 

 dentata, 4-13 cm. longa, 2*5-8 cm. lata, nervis primariis 4-6-jugis ad 

 dentium apices terminantibus, supra saturate viridia primum secus costam 

 nervosque stellato-pubescentia, infra pallidiora primum in venarum angulis 

 et secus costam nervosque floccose stellato-pubescentia, adulta utrinque 

 glabrescentia vel glabra ; petioli 8-2 "5 cm. longa, primum pubescentes 

 demum glabri ; stipulae subulatae, deciduae, 3 mm. longae. Corymbi 

 terminales, 7-radii, 5-11 cm. lati ; pedunculi 0"6-2'5 cm. longi, glabri vel 

 parce pubescentes, ter quaterve furcatim ramosi. Flores albi, congesti, 

 5 mm. lati ; pedicelli glandulosi, 3 mm. longi. Calyx minutus ; lobi 5, 

 parce ciliati. Corolla 5-loba; lobi orbiculares. Stamina 5, petalis 

 longiora ; antherae luteae. Ovarium glandulosum ; stylus calycis lobos 

 duplo excedens. Fructus ruber, drupaceus, globosus, 6 mm. latus ; pyrena 

 compressa, subrotunda. — V. Willeanum, Graebner in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 vol. xxix. p. 589 (1901).— W. J. Bean. 



The plant of Viburnum betulifolium from which our 

 material for figuring was obtained was raised from seed 

 collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson, near Ichang, in November, 

 1907. The seed was presented to Kew the following spring 

 by the Arnold Arboretum. The plants then raised have 

 grown vigorously, and are now three to four feet high. 

 This species is the most ornamental of all the new decidu- 

 ous ones from Central and Western China, so far as their 

 qualities have up to the present been displayed at Kew. 

 It has no particular merit in regard to its blossom,' but 

 about the middle of October, when laden with its heavy 

 clusters of bright red fruits, it is one of the most attrac- 

 tive of shrubs. Given a good loamy soil and a moist 



August, 1916. 



