TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM FUECATUM, Bl. 



Vibuknum furcattim, Blume 1 ex Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Peter sbourg, xxvi. 483 



(1880) ; Mil Biol. x. 657. 

 Viburnum plicatum, A. Gray, Narr. Exp. Perry, ii. 313 (not Thunberg) (1856).— Fr. Schmidt, 



Mem. Acad. Sci.' St. Peter sbourg, xii. No. ii. 142 (Reisen irn Amur-Lande). 

 Viburnum lantanoides, Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 265 (not Michaux) (1866) ; Prol. 



Fl. Jap. 153. — Hance, Jour. Bot. viii. 276. — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI Jap. i. 199. 



Leaves membranaceous, suborbicular to orbicular-ovate, short-acuminate, cordate or subcordate 

 at the base, serrate, yellowish green and glabrous above, lighter green beneath, and stellate- 

 tomentose on the veins, or rarely covered on the under surface with sparse stellate hairs, glabrous 

 or nearly so at maturity, from 9 to 15 centimetres long and from 9 to 12 centimetres broad, 

 with from nine to ten pairs of veins branching near the margin and ending in the teeth ; 

 petioles stout, from 2 to 3.5 centimetres in length, stellate-tomentose, enlarged at the base. 

 Corymbs terminal on two-leafed branchlets, sessile, from 8 to 10 centimetres in diameter, with 

 sterile radiant flowers; rays usually five, sparingly stellate-tomentose, their bracts caducous; 

 flowers on raylets of the third or fourth order, sessile or short-pedicellate, the sterile flowers on 

 slender pedicels; calyx-tube nearly cylindric, glabrous, about 1.5 millimetres long, the lobes 

 broadly triangular, about one third as long as the tube ; corolla rotate, from 7 to 8 millimetres in 

 diameter, the lobes ovate, acutish, 3 millimetres in length, longer than the tube ; stamens about 

 half as long as the lobes of the corolla; anthers orbicular-ovate, yellow; sterile flowers about 

 2.5 centimetres in diameter, with five unequal suborbicular lobes. Drupes ovoid, crowned by 

 the persistent calyx, scarlet, finally becoming black, fleshy; stone ovoid, compressed, with a deep 

 furrow on the ventral side and a groove on the dorsal side, 7 millimetres long; seed covered 

 with resinous reddish brown dots ; albumen ruminate. 



An upright sparingly branched shrub, sometimes 4 metres high, with forked dark red-brown 

 smooth branches, and branchlets loosely covered while young with yellowish stellate hairs. 

 Winter-buds large, naked, densely clothed with yellow stellate tomentum. Flowers formed in the 

 autumn, enveloped during the winter by the scale-like bracts and bractlets of the corymb and 

 unfolding in early spring with the leaves. Fruit ripens at the end of August. 



Japan and Saghalin : without locality, Herb. Lugd.-Bat. Blume; Hokkaido, Hakodate, 1853- 

 56, C. Wright, Sapporo, May 31, 1889, Y. Tokubuchi, Shiribeshi, July, 1905, U. Faurie (No. 

 6833); Hondo, hills above Nikko, September 6, 1892, C. S. Sargent, Nanogawa, May 12, 1889, 

 and Fuji-san, July 30, 1891, K. Watanabe, near Lake Yumoto, August 11, 1905, J. G. Jack, 

 Amori, May 16, 1904, U. Faurie (No. 5992) ; Kiu-siu, Wunzen, Prov. Simabara and Kundsho- 

 san, 1863, Maximowicz ; Saghalin, 1861, Fr. Schmidt. 



Viburnum furcatum is closely related to the American Viburnum alnifolium, Marshall, which differs chiefly from 

 the Japanese plant in its stamens, which are longer than the corolla, and in the cross section of the ventral furrow of 

 the seed, which resembles the letter Y. The allied Himalayan Viburnum cordifolium, Wallich, is easily distinguished 

 by the absence of the radiant flowers, the stellate-pilose corolla, and the ovate leaves. The Chinese specimens which 



ison, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii. 175 (1858), as a 



