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VIBURNUM 



five-branched cymes 2 to 3 ins. across. Fruit red, ultimately black, ^ to J 

 in. long. 



Native of the Himalaya from Bhotan to Beluchistan; introduced about 

 1830. This species is closely allied to V. Lantana, and is very similar in 

 foliage and general appearance, but differs in the following respects : 

 Cymes more often five-rayed than seven-rayed, corolla tinged with pink, 

 and distinctly funnel-shaped, the corolla-tube longer than the lobes. The 

 true plant is rare in gardens, and not so hardy as V. Lantana, but it thrives 

 and flowers at Grayswood Hill, near Haslemere. 



V. DASYANTHUM, Rehder. 

 (Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, t. 149.) 



A deciduous shrub up to 8 ft. high, with smooth, glossy branchlets 

 becoming dark or purplish brown the second year. Leaves ovate, rounded 

 at the base, tapered to a long, slender point, rather distantly and shallowly 



VIBURNUM DAVIDII. 



toothed, the teeth often standing out at right angles to the margin; 2 to 4j 

 ins. long, I to 2^ ins. wide; dark green, smooth on both surfaces except for 

 simple hairs on the midrib and veins beneath and tufts of down in the vein- 

 axils; veins in six or seven pairs; leaf-stalks slender, \ to f in. long, smooth. 

 Corymbs 3 to 4 ins. across, usually seven-branched; the main and secondary 

 flower-stalks are glabrous, the final subdivisions, like the ovary and calyx, 

 felted with pale brown wool; corolla woolly outside, \ in. across. Fruit 

 egg-shaped, \ in. long, red. 



Native of Hupeh and Szechuen, China; discovered by Wilson in 1900, 

 and introduced by him in 1907. It is allied to betulifolium and to lobo- 

 phyllum, from both of which it differs in its woolly corolla; also to hupehense, 

 which has the leaves downy on both surfaces. 



V. DAVIDII, Franchet. 



An evergreen shrub of apparently low, compact habit, and about 2 ft. 

 high; young branches warted. Leaves leathery, narrowly oval or slightly 



