TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM SYMPODIALE, Grabn. 



Viburnum sympowale, Grabner, Engler Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 587 (1901). 



Viburnum purcatum, Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 352 (excl syn.) (not Blume) (1888). 



Leaves deciduous, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, rounded or subcordate at the base, ser- 

 rulate, yellowish green and glabrous on the upper surface, lighter green and sparingly stellate- 

 lepidote on the veins and veinlets on the lower surface, from 7 to 13 centimetres long and from 



4 to 8 centimetres broad, with from six to eight pairs of veins slightly impressed above, elevated 

 beneath and connected by conspicuous transverse veinlets ; petioles rather slender, grooved, stellate- 

 lepidote, from 1.5 to 3 centimetres in length, furnished near the base with slender stipules about 



5 millimetres long. Corymbs terminal, sessile, flat, from 6 to 9 centimetres in diameter, sparingly 

 stellate-lepidote, becoming nearly glabrous at maturity, with large sterile radiant flowers ; rays 

 usually five ; flowers sessile on rays of the third order ; ovary glabrous, nearly cylindric, 2 milli- 

 metres long ; calyx-lobes orbicular-ovate, stellate-pubescent on the outer surface ; corolla rotate, 

 glabrous, about 5 millimetres in diameter, its lobes ovate, about twice as long as the tube ; sta- 

 mens scarcely half as long as the corolla ; anthers broadly oval, yellow ; style conical, short, 

 scarcely longer than the calyx-lobes. Sterile flowers about 2.5 centimetres broad, with generally 

 oblong-obovate unequal lobes. Drupe ovoid, purple, from 8 to 9 millimetres high, crowned by 

 the persistent calyx-lobes ; stone ovoid, slightly compressed, inflexed on the inner edges and there- 

 fore T-shaped in cross section, about 7 millimetres long and 5 millimetres broad, with a dorsal 

 groove and a deep ventral furrow ; seed densely covered with red resinous glands ; albumen 

 deeply ruminate. 



A loosely branched shrub, with branchlets stellate-lepidote while young, becoming in their sec- 

 ond year reddish brown, smooth, and somewhat lustrous, and ultimately grayish brown. Winter- 

 buds naked. Flowers appearing with the leaves. 



China: Hupeh, A. Henri/ (Nos. 5759 A and 6707), E. H. Wilson (Nos. 94, 1796, 1812); 

 Szech'uan, Nan-chuan, A. von Rosihorn (ex Grabner). 



Viburnum sympodiale is closely related to Viburnum furcatum, Blume, from which it differs chiefly in its stipulate 

 petioles and smaller ovate more finely serrate leaves mostly rounded at the base. The peculiar sympodial ramification 

 which is particularly mentioned by Grabner also occurs in the allied species, Viburnum furcatum, Blume, Viburnum, 

 alnifolium, Marshall, and Viburnum cordifolium, WaUich, and also in Viburnum urceolatum, Siebold & Zuccarini. 



Alfbed Rehdeb. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



