834 Caprifollaceae 



Var. miquelii (Nakai) Hara. S. buergeriana Bl. ex Nakai; Sokuzu. Rather stout green erect herb with creeping rhi- 



S. racemosa var. miquelii Nakai; 5. racemosa var. pubescens zomes; stems 1-1.5 m. long; leaves petiolate, rather large, the 



Schwerin, non Dipp.; S. latipinna var. miquelii (Nakai) Na- leaflets 5-7, broadly lanceolate to narrovi^ly ovate, 5-17 cm. 



kai; S. miquelii Nakai ex Komar. & Alisova Ezo-niwatoko. long, 2-6 cm. vi^ide, toothed; inflorescence flat-topped, large, 



Warty tubercles of inflorescence elongate and hairlike. nearly glabrous, glands yellowish, nearly obconical; flowers 



Woods and thickets in mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. white, 3^ mm. long, on slender pedicels; fruit globose, about 



distr.) . s. Kuriles, SakhaUn, Korea, and Ussuri. 4 mm. long, red. Aug.-Sept. Thickets and woods in hills 



2. Sambucus chinensis Lindl. (?) S. thunbergii G. and low elevations in the mountains; Honshu, Shikoku, Kyu- 



Don; S. thunbergiana BL; S. javanica sensu auct. Japon., non shu. China, Ryukyus, Formosa, and Bonins. 



BL; Ebulis chinensis (Lindl.) Nakai; S. formosana Nakai 



2. VIBURNUM L. Gamazumi Zoku 



Shrubs or trees; leaves opposite, simple, or rarely palmately lobed, toothed; stipules usually small or absent; flowers in axillary 

 or terminal subumbellate corymbs or panicles, white or pink, bisexual or sometimes the peripheral ones sterile with a large 

 corolla; calyx-teeth small; corolla rotate or tubular, the lobes 5, imbricate in bud; stamens 5; ovary 1- to 3-locular; style short; 



ovules solitary in each locule; drupe fleshy or dry, 1-seeded. About 150 species, in the temperate to warmer regions of 



the N. Hemisphere and S. America. 



lA. Corolla rotate. 



2A. Inflorescence with large sterile flowers on the periphery. 



3A. Leaves 3-lobed, 3-nerved from the base, with sessile discoid glands at the top of petioles; flowering branchlets usually with 2 



pairs of leaves l.V. opulus var. calvescens 



3B. Leaves toothed, not lobed, penninerved, glandless; flowering branchlets with one pair of leaves. 



4A. Leaves cordate; inflorescence without a common peduncle 2. V. jurcatum 



4B. Leaves rounded to cuneate at base; inflorescence with a common peduncle 3. V. plicatum 



2B. Inflorescence without large sterile flowers on the periphery. 



5A. Inflorescence a panicle with a short main axis 4. V. sieboldii 



5B. Inflorescence flat-topped, without an elongate main axis. 

 6A. Inflorescence large, usually many-flowered, erect. 



7A. Stamens shorter than the corolla; leaves subcoriaceous. 



8A. Evergreen shrub or small tree, glabrous 5. V. japonicum 



8B. Deciduous shrub, stellate-pilose on young branchlets, under side of leaves and inflorescence 6. V. brachyandrum 



7B. Stamens longer than the corolla; leaves membranous or herbaceous. 

 9 A. Petioles 1-1.5 cm. long; stipules absent. 



lOA. Leaves coarsely pilose on both sides; young branches and inflorescence scabrous 7. V. dilatatum 



lOB. Leaves usually glabrous above; young branches and inflorescence with scattered long-appressed hairs Z.V. wrightii 



9B. Petioles 2-5 mm. long; stipules subulate, minute 9. V. erosum 



6B. Inflorescence rather small and few-flowered, nodding or nearly pendulous 10. V. phlebotrichum 



IB. Corolla tubular or hypocrateriform, the tube longer than the lobes. 

 IIA. Evergreen shrubs; inflorescence a panicle; leaves coriaceous. 



12A. Leaves 8-20 cm. long, the petioles 2.5-4 cm. long 11. V. awabuki 



12B. Leaves 5-8 cm. long, the petioles 5-10 mm. long 12. V. suspensum 



IIB. Deciduous shrubs; inflorescence a corymb; leaves membranous. 



13A. Corolla-tube 1-1.3 cm. long, with spreading lobes about half as long as the tube 13. V. carlesii 



13B. Corolla-tube shorter with erect lobes about I mm. long 14. V. tirceolatum 



1. Viburnum opulus L. var. calvescens (Rehd.) Hara. long, 5-10 cm. wide, abrupdy acute, cordate at base, toothed, 

 V. sargentii var. calvescens Rehd.; V. sargentii Koehne; V. with 7-10 pairs of parallel lateral nerves, the petioles reddish, 

 opulus var. sargentii (Koehne) Takeda; V. pubinerve Bl. ex 2-4 cm. long; inflorescence sessile, 7-12 cm. across, 2-leaved at 



Nakai Kamboku. Deciduous shrub often white-pubescent the base, many-flowered, with few neutral flowers on margin; 



on lower side of leaves and inflorescence; flowering JDranchlets stamens about half as long as the corolla-lobes; fruit ellipsoidal, 



usually with 2 pairs of leaves; leaves obovate-orbicular, 6-10 about 8 mm. long, becoming red, then black at maturity. 



cm. long and as wide, truncate, shallowly cordate, or broadly May. Mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; 



cuneate at base, 3-lobed, incised, and few-toothed, 3-nerved rather common northward. s. Kuriles, Sakhalin, and Korea 



from the base, the lobes more or less cuspidate or short-caudate, (Quelpaert and Dagelet Isls.). 



the petioles 3-4 cm. long, with a pair of sessile discoid glands 3. Viburnum plicatum Thunb. var. tomentosum 

 at the top; inflorescence many-flowered, flat-topped, 6-12 cm. (Thunb.) Miq. V. tomentosum Thunb.; V. plicatum forma 

 across, with a few large bractlike neutral flowers on the outer tomentosum (Thunb.) Rehd. Yabu-demari. Large de- 

 margin; anthers dark purple; fruit globose, 8-10 mm. across, ciduous shrub pubescent while young, the branches gray- 

 red.— —May-June. Mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, brown; leaves ovate to broadly so, or obovate, 7-10 cm. long 

 Kyushu.— Korea, Amur, Ussuri, Manchuria, China, s. Ku- inclusive of the petioles, 4-7 cm. wide, abruptly acute, rounded 

 riles, and Sakhalin. to cuneate at base, with deltoid mucronate teeth except near 



2. Viburnum furcatum Bl. O-kame-no-ki, Mushikari. base, pale green beneath, with 10-15 pairs of parallel lateral 

 Large shrub, yellowish furfuraceous while young, the branches nerves, the petioles 1.5-2.5 cm. long; inflorescence rather large, 

 dark purple; leaves ovate-orbicular or broadly ovate, 7-15 cm. terminal on short 2-leaved branchlets, peduncled, with large 



