224 Caprifo liacece Viburnum. 



tree in South Britain. It grows from 16 to 20 feet high, and 

 is clothe.d with a scaly or mealy tomentum. Leaves rugose, 

 oblong, cordate at the base, serrulate. Flowers all perfect, 

 white, in large flat cymes, appearing in May or June, succeeded 

 by red eventually black flattened drupes. 



3. V. Opulus. Guelder Eose, Snowball Tree. Leaves 

 variously lobed or deeply toothed. In the wild form only the 

 outer flowers are sterile s but there is a common cultivated 



Fig. 119. Viburnum Opulus. (J nat. size.) 



variety (fig. 119) in which they are all barren. There is also a 

 dwarf variety. 



V. macrocephalum, from China, is near V. Lantana in 

 foliage and habit, and the variety in cultivation bears enormous 

 panicles of white neutral flowers. V. plicatum, also from North 

 China, in its globular heads of neutral flowers resembles the 

 Gruelder Eose, differing, however, in the plaited oblong-orbi- 

 cular serrate leaves. V. rugosum is a Canary Islands evergreen 

 shrub with broadly ovate rugose hirsute leaves and large ter- 

 minal cymes of white and pink flowers. V. macrophyllum is 

 a Japanese species with very large glabrous foliage. 



8. SAMBIJCUS. 



Herbs or shrubs with pinnate leaves and large compound 

 cymes of small white flowers. Calyx-limb 3- to 5-toothed. 



