TREES AND S1J11CBS. 



VIBURNUM PHLEBOTRICHUM, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Viburnum phlebotrichum, Siebold & Zuccarini, Abhand. Akad. Wiss. Munch, iv. pt. ii. 



173 (1846). — Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 267; Prol. Fl. Jap. 155. — Franchet & 



Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. i. 200. — Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Peter sbourg, xxvi. 490; 



Mel. Biol. x. 667 (1880). 



Leaves membranaceous, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, broadly cuneate or rarely rounded at 

 the base, dentate, with broadly triangular mucronate teeth, dark green and glabrous above, 

 lighter green and glabrous beneath with the exception of the long silky hairs on the midrib and on 

 the six to nine pairs of straight veins ending in the teeth, from 3 to 6 centimetres long and from 

 1.5 to 3 centimetres broad ; petioles glabrous, from 2 to 5 millimetres in length. Corymbs small, 

 nodding, rather few-flowered, glabrous, purple, from 2 to 4 centimetres in diameter, on slender 

 peduncles from 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres long ; rays usually five, furnished like the two to five- 

 flowered raylets with membranaceous linear-lanceolate bracts; flowers slender-pedicelled on raylets 

 of the second order ; calyx purple, about 1 millimetre long, with a subcylindric tube, and ovate- 

 oblong acuminate lobes ; corolla campanulate-rotate, usually tinged reddish near the base, 6 milli- 

 metres in diameter, the lobes ovate, about 2 millimetres in length, longer than the tube ; stamens 

 inserted a little below the incisions of the limb ; filaments shorter than the oval yellow anthers. 

 Drupe red, subglobose ; stone ovoid, compressed, from 7 to 8 millimetres long and from 4.5 to 

 6.5 millimetres broad, yellowish white, uneven ; seed with a reddish brown finely punctulate testa. 



A shrub, from 1 to 2 metres high, with smooth yellowish gray branches and apparently 

 purplish young branchlets, changing later to a very light yellowish brown. Winter-buds ovate, 

 pointed, from 3 to 4 millimetres long, reddish brown, with two pairs of outer scales, the outer 

 pair orbicular-ovate and about one third as long as the bud. Flowers appear in May. Fruits 

 ripen in September. 



Japan: Hondo; without locality, Herb. Lugd.-Bat., Mino, May 11, 1886, //. Mayr, Nanogawa, 

 May, 1889, and October 2, 1887, and near Agamatsu, October 23, 1892, C. S. Sargent, Mt. 

 Komogatake, U. Faarie (No. 6833), Prov. Ibaraki, U. Faurie (No. 3933), Lake Chuzenzi, 

 October 26, 1905, J. G. Jack; Kiu-siu, Kundsho-san, 1863, Maximowicz. 



Viburnum phlebotrichum is most nearly related to Viburnum H7 •/'>''. Miquel, 1 which is, however, easily distin- 

 guished from it by its larger generally suborbicular or broadly obovate leaves, by its much larger upright corymbs and 



Viburnum phlebotrichum seems not to be in cultivation except in Japan, and the Viburnum phlebotrichum of the 

 Hand-list of the Kew Arboretum is probably Viburnum Wrightii. 



Alfred Rehdeb. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



1 See i. 37, t. 19 of this work. 



