TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM URCEOLATUM, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Viburnum ukceolatum, Siebold & Zuccarini, Abha?id. Akad. Munch, iv. pt. iii. 172 (1846). — 



Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 268; Prol. Fl. Jap. 156.— Franchet & Savatier, Enum. 



PI. Jap. i. 201. — Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, xxvi. 480; Mel. Biol. 



x. 655. 



Leaves membranaceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, rounded or rarely narrowed 

 at the base, crenately serrate, dark yellowish green and glabrous on the upper surface, lighter 

 green on the lower surface, from 6 to 12 centimetres long and from 2 to 7 centimetres broad, 

 with five or six pairs of anastomosing veins slightly impressed above, elevated and like the 

 midribs stellate-lepidote beneath and connected by conspicuous transverse veinlets; petioles slen- 

 der, grooved, sparingly stellate-lepidote while young, soon becoming nearly glabrous, from 1 to 2 

 centimetres in length. Corymbs terminal, long-stalked, glabrous or nearly so, from 3 to 6 cen- 

 timetres in diameter; rays usually five, the central one slightly shorter than the others; flowers 

 on rays of the second or third order ; ovaries cylindric, 2 millimetres long, glabrous like the small 

 ovate calyx-teeth ; corolla cylindric-campanulate, slightly constricted at the mouth, about 3 mil- 

 limetres high, the lobes short, upright, broadly ovate, pinkish ; stamens slightly exceeding the 

 corolla ; anthers oblong ; style thick, cylindric, exceeding the calyx-teeth. Drupe ovoid, about 6 

 millimetres long, black; stone much compressed, ovoid, with three ventral grooves and two dorsal 

 grooves. 



A shrub, apparently low and straggling, with terete sparingly stellate-lepidote or almost gla- 

 brous branchlets, becoming in their second year reddish brown or light yellowish brown and 

 marked by occasional small lenticels. Winter-buds naked. Flowers appear shortly after the 

 leaves. 



Japan : Hondo, Umoto, September 6, 1892, C. S. Sargent, Jizogatake, July, 1903, U. Faurie 

 (No. 5485 in Herb. Arnold Arboretum), Lake Chuzenji, August 12, 1905, J. G. Jack; Kiu-siu, 

 Ko-isi-wara, 1863, Maximowicz. 



Viburnum urceolatum is not very closely related to any other species ; in the shape of the corolla it recalls Vibur- 

 num cylindricum, Hamilton, and in its mode of branching it resembles Viburnum furcatum, Blume, and aUied species, 

 while the characters of the fruit and of the foliage point to a relationship with Viburnum burejoeticum, Herder & 

 Kegel. 



As an ornamental plant Viburnum urceolatum has apparently little to recommend it, and it is doubtful whether it is 



Alfked Rehdek. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



