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VIBURNUM 



Var. LUCIDUM. In habit this is more open, and less compact than the 

 type, and altogether a stronger grower. It also bears larger leaves and 

 trusses, and the individual flower is nearly | in. across, sometimes pinkish, 

 The largest leaves are 4 ins. long, and 2| ins. wide. 'Very useful and 

 effective in the milder counties, it is not so hardy as the type. The 

 varietal name refers to the smooth, burnished young shoots, and to the 

 glossy surfaces of the leaf, the lower one with only a few tufts of hairs in 

 the vein-axils. 



Var. PURPUREUM. Leaves of a dull purple tinge. 



Var. VARIEGATUM. A portion of the leaf, sometimes all one side, yellow. 



A more erect-habited form has been distinguished as STRICTA or 

 pyramidale. All the forms of Laurustinus are easily increased by cuttings 

 put in a cool frame, or, more quickly, in mild heat. 



VIBURNUM TOMENTOSUM. 



V. TOMENTOSUM, Thunberg. 



A deciduous shrub of bushy habit, 6 to 10 ft. high, the branches mostly 

 horizontal, covered when young with a minute, starry down. Leaves ovate 

 or oval, tapered to a point, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, 2 to 4 

 ins. long, i to i\ ins. wide; toothed except at the base, dull dark green 

 above with scattered hairs at first; pale, greyish, and stellately downy 

 beneath; stalk \ to f in. long. Inflorescence a flat umbel i\ to 4 ins. across, 

 borne at the end of a short, usually two-leaved twig; the centre is rilled 

 with the small perfect flowers, surrounded by a few large, white sterile ones, 

 i to \\ ins. across. Fruit roundish egg-shaped, at first coral red, finally 

 blue-black. 



Native of China and Japan; introduced about 1865. Although not so 

 well known or so striking as its variety plicatum, this shrub is very pretty 

 when in flower with the trusses set along the branches in two rows. Messrs 

 Veitch have a variety they call MARIESII, with the trusses and sterile flowers 



