1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, 
Viburnum—continued. 
V. paucifiorum (few-flowered). #. white; cymes small, 
terminating short and merely two-leaved lateral branches. 
Early summer. 7. roundish or broadly oval, unequally toothed, 
many of them more or less three-lobed. A. 2ft. to 5ft. 1890. A 
straggling shrub, something like a dwarf V. Opulus. (G. & F. 
1890, p. 4, f. 1.) 
V. plicatum. See V. tomentosum. 
V. pyrifolium (Pyrus-leaved). 
V. reticulatum (netted). 
V. rigidum (rigid). 
V. Sargenti (Sargent’s). A species very closely allied to 
V. Opulus, but having larger ray flowers and purplish anthers. 
China, 1899. 
V. Sieboldi (Siebold’s). 7. opposite, dark green, flat, thick 
coriaceous, oblong-oval, obscurely and bluntly serrated towards 
the apex. Japan. N. V. reticulatum (of gardens). 
A synonym of V. prunifolium. 
A garden synonym of V. Sieboldi. 
The correct name of V. rugosum. 
V. squamatum (scaly). A synonym of V. cassinoides. 
V. stellatum (star-like). J. strongly veined, oblong-ovate, 
about 6in. long and 34in. broad, thick, rugose. Mexico, 1889-90. 
According to the Kew authorities, this may not be the true 
V. stellatum (of Hemsley). 
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Vicia—continued. 
racemes as long as the leaves, dense-flowered. May. J. sessile; 
leaflets sixteen to twenty-four, alternate and nearly opposite, 
oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, silky-pubescent beneath. Azores. 
Perennial. (B. M. 6967.) 
V. fulgens (brilliant).* 7. scarlet, 
striated with purple, rose- 
yurple at base, 
shortly pedicellate; spikes compact, erect, 
in. to Sin. long. June to August. J. 4in. to 6in. long, 
terminating in a branched tendril; leaflets opposite or 
alternate, very shortly stalked, oblong or linear-lanceolate, 
mucronate. Stems pubescent, 3ft. to 44ft. high. Algiers, 1892. 
A pretty annual. 
V. galegifolia is synonymous with Swainsona coronillefolia. 
V. narbonensis (N 
arbonne). jl. purple, pedicellate, three or 
four in the leaf-ar June and July. 1, leaflets ample, 
ovate, entire or slightly toothed; stipules large. Stems 
tetragonal, hai striated. Ah. 3ft. Orient, 1590. Annual. 
(B. M. 7220.) V. 
leaflets. 
V. oroboides alba (white). 
V. pyrenaica (Pyrenean). . purple, solitary, sessile; calyx 
sub-campanulate, the unequal segments lanceolate and some- 
what spreading, shorter than the tube. May. J. slightly ten- 
drilled ; leaflets obeordate, mucronate ; stipule: agittate, 
entire or denticulate. /. 1ft. Pyrenees, 1818. Perennial. 
serratifolia is a form with deeply-toothed 
A white form of the type. 
Fic. 761. 
V. Tinus. Other varieties are: purpureuwin (darkest-leaved, 
suffused with dull purple, neat, free in growth), pyramidale 
(pyramidal), rotundifolium (roundish-leaved), and variegatum 
(leaves irregularly variegated with white). Fig. 762 shows the 
type grown as a Room-plant, for which it is well adapted. 
V. tomentosum is now regarded as a species and V. plicatum 
(Fig. 760) as a variety of it. ’ 
V. Vetteri (Vetter’s). 
and V. nudum. 1889. 
VICIA. To the species described on p. 157, Vol. IV., 
the following should be added: 
V. altissima (tallest). The correct name of V. polysperma. 
V. biennis (biennial). Siberian Vetch. fl. purple; calyx teeth 
unequal; racemes many-flowered; peduncles scarcely longer 
A garden hybrid between V. Lentago 
than the leaves. July to September. /., leaflets lanceolate, 
glabrous; petioles tendrilled. A. 2ft. Siberia, 1753. Annual 
or biennial. 
V. Dennesiana (Dennes’). #. varying in colour from pale 
brownish to violet-purple, lin. long; standard shorter than 
the wings, which are somewhat reflexed above the middle; 
VIBURNUM OPULUS STERILE. 
V. sylvatica (wood-loving).* fl. blue and white, pedunculate ; 
alyx segments scarcely as long as the tube; peduncle longer 
than the leaves, many-flowered. June and July. — L, leaflets 
numerous, alternate or opposite, elliptic-oblong, mucronulate, 
reticulate-veined; stipules semi-sagittate-reniform, — bristly- 
toothed. Europe. A glabrous perennial; good for rambling 
over rockwork. 
VIGNA. To the species described on p. 159, Vol. IV., 
the following should be added: 
V. strobilophora (cone-bearing). 7. Wistaria-like, having the 
standard pinkish-white and the keel and wings purple, dis- 
posed in axillary, cone-like racemes. /. pinnately trifoliolate. 
Stems woody, twining, many feet jin height. Mexico, 1894. 
Greenhouse. (G. & F. 1894, f. 30.) 
VIGUIERA. To the species described on p. 159, 
Vol. IV., the following should be added: 
V. excelsa (tall). fl.-heads yellow; involucral scales in many 
series, ciliated, appressed ; peduncle terete. August. l. ellipt X 
acute, serrated at apex, three-nerved, scabrous on both sides. 
Stem scabrous. h. 6ft. to 8ft. Mexico, 1820. Syns. Helianthus 
giganteus (of Cayanilles), Tithonia excelsa 
