TREES AND SHRUBS. 



YIBTJENUM THEIFERUM, Eehd. 



Viburnum theiferum, n. sp. 



Viburnum phlebotrichum, Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 354 (not Siebold & Zuccarini) 



(1888).— Grabner, Engler Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 589. 



Leaves deciduous, chartaceous or membranaceous, ovate-oblong, acuminate, rounded at the 

 base, remotely denticulate, deciduous, from 7 to 12 centimetres long and from 3 to 5.5 centimetres 

 wide, dark green and glabrous above, lighter green and glabrous beneath with the exception of 

 the long silky hairs on the midribs and on the from six to eight pairs of parallel nearly straight 

 veins ending in the teeth ; petioles sparingly hairy or glabrous, from 1 to 1.5 centimetres in 

 length. Corymbs glabrous or slightly hairy, from 2.5 to 3.5 centimetres in diameter, on upright 

 peduncles from 1 to 2.5 centimetres long; bracts linear-oblong, membranaceous, caducous; rays 

 usually five, from three to six-flowered ; flowers on raylets of the second order, pedicellate or 

 nearly sessile ; calyx purple, scarcely 1 millimetre long, with a subcylindrical tube and ovate 

 lobes; corolla campanulate-rotate, from 5 to 6 millimetres in diameter, the lobes ovate, about 2.5 

 millimetres long, longer than the tube ; stamens inserted a little below the incisions of the limb, 

 about half as long or nearly as long as the limb. Drupe red, globose-ovoid, crowned by the 

 persistent calyx ; stone ovoid, from 8 to 10 millimetres long and from 6 to 7 millimetres broad, 

 yellowish white, uneven ; seed reddish brown, finely punctulate. 



An upright shrub, with smooth light grayish brown branches, and glabrous very light yellowish 

 gray branchlets. Winter-buds oblong-ovoid, glabrous, about 6 millimetres long, with two outer 

 pairs of scales, the outer pair of these from one half to two thirds the length of the bud. 



Central and western China : Szech'uan, Kui, E. H. Wilson (No. 579, flowers and fruits), 

 Changyang, E. H. Wilson (No. 644 in Herb. Kew), S. Wushan, A. Henry (No. 5586) ; Mt. 

 Omei, Faber (ex Hemsley) ; Kiang-si, Hupeh, and Formosa (ex Hemsley). 



Viburnum theiferum is most closely related to Viburnum phlebotrichum, Siebold & Zuccarini, from which it is easily 

 distinguished by its larger and longer-stalked thicker denticulate-serrate leaves, by the longer stamens, and by the 

 outermost scales of the winter-buds being more than half as long as the whole bud. It is a much stouter and more 

 vigorous shrub, larger in every part. In Wilson's specimen, which I consider the type of the species, the stamens are 

 about half as long as the limb, while in Henry's No. 5586 they are as long as the limb, and 1 

 thinner texture. 



According to Barber, 1 an infusion of the leaves of Viburnum theifer 

 i Mt. Omei, one of the five sacred i 



the flavor of coarse congou with a plentiful addition of brown sugar. 



Alfked Rehder. 

 i Arnold Arboretum. 



, also, Helmsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 354, Hosie, Three Years in Western 



