WAYFARING TREE 187 



Venation pinnate with a tendency to loop, and soon 



breaking into a network obscure above. Midrib promi- 

 nent below. 



Fig. 49. Aucuba, Aucuba japonica, p. 186 (E & P). 



(/3) Leaves ovate or elliptic, not polished or 

 evergreen, nor coriaceous. 



* Leaves and shoots greyish mealy with 

 stellate hairs ; margins dentate-serrate. 

 Venation pinnate with numerous forked 

 secondaries. 



Viburnum Lantana, L. Wayfaring Tree (Fig. 50). 

 Shrub with scurry or mealy shoots and foliage. Leaves 

 large and thick, 6 15 x 4 9 cm., ovate or oval, acute or 

 rather obtuse, base rounded or cordate, often oblique; 

 finely dentate-serrate, dark green, rugose, plaited, with 

 more or less appressed and mostly simple hairs above, 

 giving a soft and velvety appearance; greyish with stellate 

 hairs beneath, especially abundant on the venation, look- 

 ing like mealy or scurfy whitish down. Petiole short 



