652 VIBURNUM 



Native of Eastern N. America from Canada to Georgia; introduced in 

 1761. Although this species does not bear fruit freely in this country it is 

 well worth growing for its flowers, and as a small and handsome tree. It is 

 closely allied to, and confused in gardens with, V. prunifolium, but differs in 

 the leaves being long and tapered-pointed with winged stalks [see also 

 V. rufidulum]. The wood has a disagreeable odour, according to Sargent. 



V. LOBOPHYLLUM, Graebner. 



(Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, t. 147.) 



A deciduous shrub, with young shoots smooth or soon becoming so, dark 

 reddish brown when mature. Leaves ovate to roundish or broadly obovate, 

 abruptly narrowed at the apex to a short point; mostly rounded, sometimes 

 broadly wedge-shaped at the base; coarsely toothed except towards the 

 base; \\ to 4 ins. long, -| to 3^ ins. wide; smooth or downy only on the 

 midrib and veins; veins in five to seven pairs; leaf-stalk J to I in. long. 

 Corymbs 2 to 4 ins. wide, with seven main branches, which, like the 

 secondary ones, are minutely downy and glandular. Flowers white, \ in. 

 across, istamens longer than the corolla, anthers yellow. Fruit bright red, 

 roundish, \ in. long. 



Native of W. China; introduced by Wilson in 1901, and again in 1907 and 

 1910. It belongs to the confusing group of red-fruited Asiatic Viburnums 

 containing Wrightii, betulifolium, dilatatum, etc. 



V. MACROCEPHALUM, Fortune. 

 (Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 43.) 



A deciduous or partially evergreen shrub up to 12 or 20 ft. high, forming 

 a large rounded bush, the young shoots covered with a close scurf, which 

 seen under the lens, is found to be minute stellate down. Leaves ovate, 

 occasionally oval or oblong, rounded at the base,. rounded or pointed at the 

 apex; 2 to 4 ins. long, i^ to 2^ ins. wide; dull green, and with scattered 

 hairs above, covered with stellate down beneath; stalk \ to f in. long. 

 Flowers pure white, all sterile, i to i| ins. across, forming a huge, globular 

 truss 3 to 6 ins. wide. 



This, which is Fortune's type, was introduced by him from China in 

 1844 for the Royal Hort. Society, and described in the second volume of 

 the Society's Journal. Being perfectly sterile, it has, of course, no place in 

 nature, and is a purely garden plant, and should really be distinguished as 

 var. STERILE. It is the most striking, if not the most beautiful of Viburnums, 

 its truss exceeding in bulk that of any other species. Near London, it 

 lives in a sheltered spot in the open, but is better on a wall, where a well- 

 grown plant makes a most striking display in May. Fortune saw it 20 ft. 

 high in Chusan. 



The wild form of V. macrocephalum (V. KETELEFRI, Carriere j V. arbor- 



escens, Hemsley) is a native of China, and has only the marginal flowers of 



the showy sterile kind, the small perfect ones filling the centre of the cyme, 



which is 3 to 5 ins. across, and comparatively flat. It is somewhat hardier 



than the wholly sterile plant. 



V. MOLLE, Michaux. 



(V. Demetrionis, Deane.") 



A deciduous shrub of bushy habit, 6 to 12 ft. high; young shoots smooth 

 and bright green at first, soon turning grey; older bark peeling. Leaves 



