TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBUENUM COEDIFOLIUM, Wall. 



Viburnum coRDiFOLiuM,Wallich ex De Candolle, Prodr. iv. 327 (1830). — Hooker f. & Thom- 

 son, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii. 175. — Clarke, Hooker f. Fl. Brit. Ind. hi. 6. — Franchet, Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, viii. 252; PL David, i. 69.— Grabner, Engler Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 

 587. — Brandis, Indian Forest Trees, 361. 



Leaves deciduous, ovate to broadly ovate, rarely oblong-ovate, acuminate, cordate or rounded 

 at the base, unequally serrate, yellowish green and glabrous or nearly so on the upper surface, 

 lighter green and sparingly stellate-lepidote, particularly on the veins, on the lower surface, from 10 

 to 18 centimetres long and from 5 to 16 centimetres broad, with from eight to ten pairs of veins 

 impressed above, elevated beneath and connected by prominent transverse veinlets ; petioles stout, 

 slightly grooved, from 2.5 to 5.5 centimetres in length, stellate-lepidote while young, much 

 enlarged at the base, and usually furnished with two short stipules. Corymbs terminal, sessile, 

 flat, from 5 to 15 centimetres in diameter, sparingly stellate-lepidote ; rays usually seven ; flowers 

 on rays of the third order; ovary cylindric, glabrous, 1.5 millimetres long ; calyx-lobes ovate, 

 hairy, with a few stellate hairs ; corolla rotate, from 6 to 10 millimetres in diameter, the lobes 

 twice as long as the tube, ovate-oblong to oblong, usually of unequal size, the outer somewhat 

 longer than the others, particularly in the marginal flowers ; stamens about half as long as the 

 corolla ; filaments little more than 1 millimetre in length ; anthers broadly oval, purple ; style 

 thick, conical, slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Drupe purple, ovoid, crowned by the persistent 

 calyx-lobes, 8 millimetres long and from 6 to 7 millimetres thick ; stone compressed, with a deep 

 ventral furrow, T-shaped in the cross section by its inflexed edges, and with a shallow dorsal 

 groove; seed covered with red resinous glands; albumen ruminate. 



A loosely branched shrub or a small tree, with sparingly stellate-lepidote branchlets, becoming 

 gray or grayish brown and marked by a few large lenticels. Winter-buds naked. Flowers 

 appearing with the leaves. 



China : Szech'uan, altitude 3300 metres, E. H. Wilson (No. 3735) ; also on the Himalayas 

 from Kumaon to Bhotan. 



Viburnum cordifolium is easily distinguished by the absence of radiant flowers from the allied species, Viburnum 

 sympodiale, Grabner, Viburnum furcatum, Blume, and Viburnum alnifolium, Marshall, which it closely resembles in 

 foliage and habit. 



Alfked Rehdee. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



