TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBUKSTUM EHYTIDOPHYLLUM, Hemsl. 



Viburnum rhytidophyllum, Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 355 (1888). — Griibner, Engler 



Bot. Jakrb. xxix. 586. — Gard. Chron. xxxix. 418, fig. 167. 



Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, aeutish or obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, entire or indistinctly denticulate, persistent, thick and coriaceous, dark yellowish green, 

 lustrous, glabrous and deeply rugose above, densely covered with a yellowish stellate tomentum 

 beneath, elevated-reticulate, from 8 to 18 centimetres long and from 3 to 6 centimetres wide, 

 with seven or eight pairs of primary veins, their lateral branches ending in the minute teeth of 

 the margin ; petioles stout, densely stellate-tomentose, from 1.5 to 3 centimetres long. Cymes 

 terminal, umbel-like, rather dense, thickly stellate-tomentose, about 7 centimetres in diameter, 

 on stout peduncles from 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres in length ; rays from five to seven, stout, quad- 

 rangular, their bracts caducous ; flowers sessile on raylets of the third order, furnished at the base 

 with two linear-oblong bracts longer than the calyx-lobes; calyx stellate-tomentose, its lobes 

 minute, broadly triangular-ovate, 1 millimetre long ; corolla white, rotate-campanulate, 5 milli- 

 metres in diameter, the lobes orbicular-ovate, 1.5 millimetres in length, about equaling the tube ; 

 stamens slightly longer than the corolla ; anthers oval, yellow. Drupe oval, about 8 millimetres 

 long, red, crowned by the persistent calyx ; stone oval, nearly truncate at the ends, compressed, 

 yellowish white, 7 millimetres long and 5 millimetres broad, with two grooves on the dorsal side 

 and three grooves on the ventral side ; seed reddish brown, finely punctate, furnished with 

 resinous dots. 



A shrub, with stout densely stellate-tomentose terete branchlets. Winter-buds naked. 



Central and western China : Hupeh, A. Henry (Nos. 6305, 7451 A), E. H. Wilson (No. 624) ; 

 Szech'uan, S. Wushan, A. Henry (Nos. 5328, 5328 B), Nan-chuan, von Rosthom (ex Griibner). 



Viburnum rhytidophyllum is a well-characterized species, which cannot be confounded with any other Viburnum. 

 It has been introduced through Wilson into the Veitchian nurseries, where it has proved perfectly hardy ' and has 

 already flowered and produced fruit. It is a shrub of very striking appearance with its large wrinkled leaves, their 

 dull green and lustrous upper surface contrasting beautifully with the yellowish white stellate-tomentose under surface. 2 

 The large and dense corymbs of white flowers followed by red berries in September add considerably to its ornamental 



Alfred Rehdeb. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



