TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM, HESTEYI, Hemsl. 



Viburnum Henryi, Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 353 (1888). — Grabner, Engler Bot. 



Jahrb. xxix. 586. 



Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, subcoriaceous, acuminate or abruptly acuminate, cuneate at 

 the base, serrulate, with teeth sometimes reduced to callous tips, glabrous, dark yellowish green 

 above, light green beneath, from 6 to 10 centimetres long and from 2.5 to 4 centimetres wide, 

 with five to seven pairs of veins curving and anastomosing before reaching the margins ; petioles 

 slender, glabrous, slightly winged, from 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres in length. Inflorescence a 

 terminal panicle with usually opposite ramifications, from 6 to 9 centimetres long and from 7 to 

 10 centimetres broad, glabrous, on a slender glabrous peduncle from 2.5 to 3.5 centimetres in 

 length, the ramifications bracteate at the base, with linear-lanceolate greenish white bracts ; flowers 

 white, 6 millimetres in diameter, on pedicels from 1 to 5 millimetres long ; calyx-lobes triangular, 

 acutish, about 1 millimetre in length ; corolla rotate-campanulate, the lobes orbicular, about 2 

 millimetres long, equaling the tube ; stamens as long as the corolla or slightly longer ; anthers 

 oval, yellowish white; style very short and thick, about as long as the calyx-lobes; stigma 

 capitate. Fruiting panicle pendent ; drupes compressed, apparently dark purple, elliptic ; stone 

 elliptic, light brownish yellow, 6 millimetres long and 4.5 millimetres broad, with two slight 

 dorsal ribs, and a deep furrow and slight transversal ridges on the ventral side. 



A shrub, sometimes trailing over rocks, or a small tree up to 5 metres high, with slender 

 branches covered with grayish brown bark slightly divided by longitudinal fissures, and glabrous 

 purplish or greenish branchlets, becoming purplish brown in their second year. Winter-buds 

 small, ovate, about 4 millimetres long, with two outer scales covered with a yellowish tomentum. 



China : Hupeh, A. Henry (Nos. 1705, 1730, 4060, 5784, 6092, 7466), E. H. Wilson 

 (No. 1071); Szech'uan, S. Wushan, A. Henry (Nos. 5617, 7608), Nan-chuan, Mo-tzu-ai, von 

 Bosthorn (No. 415 in Herb. Christiania), 1 Hon-chi-k'ou, von Rosthom (No. 698 ex Grabner) ; 

 Yunnan, Feng-chen-lin, A. Henry (No. 10645). 2 



Viburnum Henryi is apparently a very handsome and graceful tree, with its large panicles of white flowers ; in habit 

 it is probably much like Viburnum Sandankwa, Hasskarl, which is sometimes to be seen in gardens, but is only hardy 

 as far north as the Orange grows. Viburnum Henryi is probably a hardier plant, and its introduction into gardens is 

 desirable. 



Alfred Rehder. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



1 The original specimen representing No. 415 of von Rostkorn's collection which has been sent to the Arnold Arboretum from 

 Christiania by Professor Wille is named Viburnum Henryi, var. xerocarpa, in Dr. Grabner's own handwriting, but in his account 

 of the Viburnums of central China he describes a Viburnum Rosthornii, var. xerocarpa (Engler Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 586), quoting No. 

 415 as the type. This is apparently a slip of the pen and should have read, Viburnum Henryi, var. xerocarpa, as on the label of 

 the type specimen. I cannot, however, find that the proposed variety differs in any way from the type of the species ; the 

 supposed dry pericarp is explained by the fact that the fruits are not fully ripe, as the shrunken and incompletely developed 



2 The specimen from Yunnan differs slightly in the thinner texture of the leaves, the sharper serrations, the slightly pubescent 



