HORTUS VEITCHII 



VIBUENUM PEOPINQUUM, Hemsl. 



First discovered in the neighbourhood of Ichang, on the Yangtsze, by 

 Dr. Henry, this species was afterwards introduced to cultivation through 

 Wilson, who sent seed collected in 1901. 



As a species it closely resembles the Western Viburnum Tinus, but 

 differs in the nervation of the leaf and the small greenish- white flowers. 



VIBUENUM EHYTIDOPHYLLUM, Hemsl. 



Jour. R.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. p. 63, fig. 23. 



A very striking shrub of an unusually promising nature with large, 

 broadly-lanceolate leaves, strongly nerved on the upper surface, covered 

 beneath with dense woolly tomentum. The branches terminate in 

 corymbs of yellowish- white flowers 7 to 8 in. across. 



Plants raised at Coombe Wood from seed collected in China have 

 proved perfectly hardy. 



VIBUENUM UTILE, Hemsl 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 257. 



This neat, attractive Viburnum, a native of Central China, was first 

 detected by Dr. A. Henry, and subsequently introduced to cultivation. 



The leaves small, lanceolate-oblong, dark shining green above, are 

 covered beneath with a thick coat of white stellate hair. 



Mr. Hemsley states (I.e. supra), " This species is readily distinguished 

 by its thick, entire leaves, glabrous and shining above and felted beneath. 

 The branches are used for making pipe stems, according to Dr. Henry." 



VIBUENUM VEITCHII, C. H. Wright. 



Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 257 ; Jour. R.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. pts. i. and ii. p. 63 ; 

 Flora and Sylva, vol. ii. p. 209. 



A species introduced from Central China through Wilson. The leaves 

 about 5 in. in length, cordate at the base, with margins coarsely dentate, 

 have an under surface densely tomentose. 



The species with flowers white, in terminal corymbose panicles, is 

 closely allied to two others, Viburnum rhytidophyllum and V. buddleifolia. 



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