TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM CIKNAMOMIFOLIUM, Eehd. 



Viburnum cinnamomifolium, n. sp. 



Leaves coriaceous, persistent, elliptic-oblong, long-acuminate, cuneate at the base, entire or 

 with few small teeth toward the apex, conspicuously three-nerved, glabrous, dark yellowish green 

 above, lighter green beneath, from 8 to 13 centimetres long, and from 3 to 4.5 centimetres broad ; 

 petioles rather stout, glabrous, from 1 to 2.5 centimetres in length. Corymbs umbel-like, large 

 and loose, glabrous, from 12 to 17 centimetres in diameter, on peduncles from 2 to 3.5 

 centimetres long ; rays six to eight ; flowers on slender pedicels from 2 to 3 millimetres long on 

 raylets of the third order; calyx-tube turbinate, the lobes minute, semiorbicular or triangular, 

 about 0.5 millimetre in length ; corolla greenish white, rotate, from 4 to 5 millimetres in diameter, 

 the lobes broadly ovate, revolute, 1 millimetre long, nearly as long as the tube ; stamens slightly 

 longer than the lobes ; anthers suborbicular, yellow. Drupe ovoid, crowned by the persistent 

 style, bluish black, lustrous, about 4 millimetres high and 3 millimetres in diameter ; pericarp 

 scarcely fleshy; stone yellowish white, without grooves or ridges; seed with a reddish brown testa 

 and deeply ruminate albumen. 



A glabrous shrub or* small tree, sometimes 6 metres high, with dark reddish brown branches 

 covered with numerous conspicuous lenticels. Leaves apparently purple as they unfold. 



Western China : Szech'uan, Mt. Omei, E. H. Wilson (No. 5022). 



Viburnum cinnamomifolium is closely related to Viburnum Davidi, Franchet, from which it differs but little in its 

 foliage, except that the leaves of the latter are thicker and distinctly wrinkled on the upper surface ; but by its much 

 smaller compact inflorescence, with the flowers on raylets of the second order, by the longer lanceolate-ovate calyx-lobes, 

 the shorter stamens, with purple anthers, and by the larger fruits 4.5 millimetres in diameter Viburnum Davidi is 

 easily distinguished from Viburnum cinnamomifolium. 



As Mr. Wilson collected ripe seeds, this species is probably now in cultivation in the Veitchian nurseries at Combe 

 Wood. On account of its handsome evergreen foliage it will certainly prove a valuable acquisition for the gardens of 

 temperate regions. 



Alfred Rehder. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



