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Viborgia—continued. 
V. obcordata (obcordate-leafleted). fl., racemes terminal or 
spuriously lateral, 3in. to 8in. long, densely many-flowered. July. 
l, rather distant ; leaflets cuneate-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 
the young ones thinly silky, the older ones glabrate. Branches 
long, twiggy, graceful. A. 3ft. to 6ft. SYN. Crotalaria floribunda 
(L. B. C. 509). 
VIBURNUM (the old Latin name used by Virgil, &c.). 
Including Tinus. ORD. Caprifoliacem. A genus com- 
prising about eighty species of mostly hardy, deciduous 
trees and shrubs, indigenous in North temperate and sub- 
temperate regions and the Andes, rare in the West Indies 
and Madagascar. Flowers white or pinkish, articulated 
with the pedicels, one or two-bracteolate, disposed in axil- 
lary or terminal, sub-umbellate corymbs or panicles, herm- 
aphrodite, or the outer ones larger and neuter; calyx tube 
turbinate or ovoid, the limb short, equally five-toothed, 
persistent; corolla rotate, campanulate, or tubular, the 
limb of five equal, imbricated lobes; stamens five, inserted 
in the corolla tube (in one species biseriate); filaments 
short or elongated; anthers oblong, exserted; disk none. 
Drupe dry or fleshy, ovoid or globose, terete or com- 
pressed, one or spuriously two or three-celled, 
one-seeded. Leaves opposite, very rarely ter- 
nately whorled, petiolate, entire, serrated or 
dentate; stipules inconspicuous or obsolete, 
in a few cases ample. The culture is of the 
easiest description. The species thrive in 
almost any soil, and may be readily propa- ` 
gated by layering, or by euttings of the half- 
ripened shoots, inserted in sandy soil, under 
handlights, in a somewhat shady position. The 
best-known species are here described; except 
where otherwise indicated, they are hardy, 
deciduous shrubs with white flowers, from 
North America. 
V. acerifolium (Maple-leaved). Dockmackie. f., 
cymes small, on slender peduncles. May and June. 
Jr. crimson, turning purple, with a flattened stone. 
l. coarsely toothed and somewhat three-lobed, 
roundish, the base truncate or cordate, the pointed 
lobes diverging. h. 3ft. to 6ft. 1736. (W. D. B. 118.) 
V. cotinifolium (Cotinus-leaved). ` Indian Way- 
faring-tree. fl. small; corymbs 2in. to An. in 
” diameter, generally terminal, dense, the branches 
stellately tomentose. June. l. ovate or elliptic, 
obtuse at base, nearly entire, rarely coarsely cre- 
nate, usually woolly Debent. h. 5ft. to 10ft. 
Himalayas, 1830. (B. R. 1650.) 
dentatum (toothed-leaved).* American Arrow-- 
wood. iw in pedunculate cymes. June. Jr. blue 
or purple, small, ovoid. Z. broadly ovate, slightly 
cordate at base, very numerously and sharply 
toothed, pale, often with hairy tufts in the axils of 
the straight veins; petioles slender. h. 5ft. to 10ft. 
1763. (W. D. B. 25.) 
V. dilatatum (dilated).* f. jin. in diameter, very shortly 
cellate; cymes sessile or on stout peduncles, much branched, 
n. to 6in. in diameter. June. /. variable, 2in. to Sin. ume 
orbicular to obovate, usually abruptly and obtusely pointed, 
coarsely toothed, rounded or cordate at base, slightly hairy; 
petioles jin. long. A. 10ft. Japan, 1845. A very handsome 
shrub. (B. M. 6215.) 
V. edule (edible). A synonym of V. Opulus. 
V. Fortunei (Fortune’s) A garden synonym of V. macro- 
cephalum. 
V. Keteleeri. See V. macrocephalum Keteleeri. 
V. Lantana (pliant), Common Wayfaring-tree. fi. lin. in 
diameter, all perfect; cymes flat-topped, with stout rays. May 
and June. fr. black, flattened, jin. long, J. broadly oblong- 
cordate, 2in. to 4in. long, serrulated, rugose, obtuse, exstipulate. 
h. 6ft. to 20ft. Europe (Britain) Shrub scurfily pubescent. 
(J. F. A. 341 ; Sy. En. B. 640.) 
V. L. fi 
oliis-variegatis (variegated - leaved). J. variegated 
with white and saby. , T 
V. lantanoides (Lantanaike) American Wayfaring-tree ; 
Hobble Bush. fl. handsome, in very broad and flat, sessile 
cymes, the outer flowers much the larger. May. fr. red, 
turni darker, ovoid. J. round-ovate, 4in. to Sin. across, 
abrup y, pointed, cordate at base, rm d serrated, pinnately 
many-veined, the veins beneath (as well as the stalks and 
branchlets) rusty-scurfy. 1820. A st ing - shrub, the re- 
clining branches often rooting. (L. B. C. 1570. 
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Viburnum —continued. 
V. Lentago (Lentago). Sheep Berry; Sweet Viburnum. jf all - 
perfect, in a sessile cyme. May and June. fr. black, or with a 
blue bloom, edible, sweet, oval, iin. or more long. J. ovate, 
strongly pointed, closely and very sharply serrated; petioles 
long margined. h. 15ft. to 30ft. 1761. Tree. (W. D. B. 21.) 
V. macrocephalum (large-headed).* d. in compound, sub. 
pyramidal cymes, the neuter flowers large. June. I ovate, 
flat, obtuse, denticulate, slightly scabrous, beneath (as well as 
the branches, petioles and peduncles) stellately furfuraceous- 
pubescent. h. 20ft. China, 1844, (B. R. 1847, 45; F. d. S. 263, 
264.) SYN. V. Fortunei (of gardens). 
V. m. Keteleeri (Keteleer’s). This is the wild type, and 
bears the same relationship to V. macrocephalum that the wild 
V. Opulus does to the garden V. O. sterilis, See Fig. 168. 
(R. H. 1863, 31.) 
V. molle (soft) d. in pedunculate, stellate-pubescent cymes. 
July. jr. purple or blue, ovoid, small, oily. l broadly oval, 
obovate, or ovate, scarcely pointed, slightly cordate at base, 
coarsely crenate or repand-toothed, the lower surface, as well 
as the rather slender petioles and branchlets, softly downy. 
h. 6ft. to 12ft. 1812. 2 
V. nudum (naked) American Withe Rod. f. all alike and 
perfect; cyme shortly pedunculate. May and June. fr. black, 
or with a blue bloom, globose, sweet, round-ovoid, lin. long. 
FIG. 169. FLOWERING BRANCHLET OF VIBURNUM OPULUS STERILIS. ` 
L. rather thick, oval, oblong, or lanceolate, not shining, the 
margins entire, repand, or crenate. A. 6ft. to 10ft. 1752. (B. M. 
2281; W. D. B. 20.) s 
V. n. cassinoides (Cassine-like). /. more opaque, often toothed. 
1761. (W. D. B. 24, under name of V. squamatum.) S 
V. n. Claytoni (Clayton’s). l. nearly entire, the veins somewhat 
prominent beneath. 
V. obovatum (obovate-leaved). fl. in small, sessile cymes. May. 
fr. black, or with a blue bloom, sweet, ovoid-oblong. ` L. obovate 
or spathulate, obtuse, entire or denticulate, rather thick, lin. to 
liin. long, shining. A. 2ft. to 8ft. 1812. (L. B. C. 1476.) 
V. odoratissimum (very odorous).* fl. with the scent of Olea 
fragrans; corymbs 2in. to 4in. high, usually pedunculate. May. 
fr. ovoid-oblong, lin. by }in., hardly com . 4, elliptic, 
Din. long, acute, cuneate at base, entire or pou sinuate- 
toothed, coriaceous, glabrous; petioles stout, jin. to lin. I A 
h. 6ft. to 10ft. Khasia Mountains, China, &c. 1818. 5 
hardy. (B. R. 456.) : 
Opul Eller; Dog Rowan. 
^ Dog Snowball-tree. 
fl., outer ones white, fin. in diameter ; inner ones creamy-white, 
