CAPRIFOLIACEAE. — VIBURNUM 113 



These specimens differ somewhat from the type in the leaves being sparingly 

 furnished with fasciculate hairs on the whole under surface and sometimes gla- 

 brous above, in the generally oblong-ovate shape of the leaves and in the stamens 

 being sUghtly longer than the corolla lobes. The fruit is bright red, ovoid, about 

 8 mm. high and furnished with scattered stellate hairs; the stone is broadly ovate, 

 much compressed, pointed, one-ribbed on the dorsal and two-ribbed on the ventral 

 side, about 6 mm. high and 5 mm. broad. V. hupehense Rehder, which much resem- 

 bles this species in the velutinous tomentum of the inflorescence, ditfers chiefly in 

 the stipulate petioles and the denser fasciculate pubescence, while the leaves of 

 V. Wilsonii have mostly fasciculate hairs on the upper surface while young, 

 becoming glabrous at maturity and are but slightly pubescent beneath. 



Viburnum brevipes Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex erectus, 2-3 m. altus ramulis junioribus dense stellato- 

 pilosis et hispidis tertio anno glabreseentibus, griseo-brunneis. Gem- 

 mae perulis 4 exterioribus fulvo-flavescentibus sparse adpresse setu- 

 losis. Folia breviter petiolata, membranacea oblongo-obovata, rarius 

 obovata, subito acuminata, basi late cuneata, subito in petiolum 

 contracta, dentata ima basi excepta, 5-7 cm. longa et 2-3.5 cm. lata, 

 supra pilis fasciculatis tuberculis minutis insidentibus conspersa, 

 subtus fasciculato-pilosa praesertim ad venas et glandulis numerosis 

 interspersa, utrinsecus venis 6-8 in dentes exeuntibus; petioli esti- 

 pulati, 2-3 mm. longi, dense hispidi. Corymbus 5-7 cm. diam., radiis 

 plerumque 5, fasciculato-pilosus; flores ignoti. Drupae plerumque in 

 radiis tertii ordinis, ovoideae, rubrae; putamen ovoideum, acutum, 

 valde compressum, circa 6 mm. altum et 4.5 mm. latum, dorso leviter 

 bi-, ventre trisulcatum, testa minute punctulata, pallide purpureo- 

 brunnea. 



Western Hupeh: Chang-yang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300-1800, 

 October 1907 (No. 447, as to the fruiting specimens, type), Novem- 

 ber 1907 (No. 676). 



Viburnum brevipes bears in the shape of the leaves and in the very short petioles 

 a great resemblance to V. erosum Thunberg, which, however, is easily distinguished 

 by the stipulate petioles, by the different, not hispid, and often very slight pu- 

 bescence of the inflorescence, petioles and branchlets, the absence of the glands on 

 the under side of the leaves and by the smaller and less compressed stone. Its near- 

 est relationship seems to be with V. dilatatum Thunberg, but that species is readily 

 distinguished by its much longer petioles and broader leaves and by the generally 

 forked hairs of the under side of the leaves. I am inclined to refer one of Wilson's 

 Hupeh specimens collected in 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 944), which is in flower, 

 provisorily to this species on account of the short petioles, but the leaves have 

 the shape of those of V. dilatatum. Viburnum brevipes is in cultivation and may 

 be expected to flower soon. 



Viburnum ovatifolium Rehder in Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, II. 115 

 (1908); in Fedde, Rep. Sp. Nov. 184 (1911). 



