TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM UTILE, Hemsl. 



Viburnum utile, Hemsley, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 356 (1888). — Grabner, Engler Bot. Jahrb. 



xxix. 585.— Bot. Mag. t. 8174. 

 Viburnum cotinifolium, Hance, Jour. Bot. xx. 6 (not Don) (1882). 



Leaves coriaceous, persistent, ovate-oblong or sometimes ovate to lanceolate-ovate, rounded or 

 broadly cuneate at tbe base, obtusish, with entire and slightly revolute margins, dark yellowish 

 green, glabrous and lustrous on the upper surface, densely whitish tomentose, interspersed, particu- 

 larly on the veins, with fulvous hairs on the lower surface, from 3 to 6 centimetres long and from 

 1 to 3 centimetres broad, with five or six pairs of only slightly elevated veins ; petioles densely 

 grayish tomentose, from 3 to 7 millimetres in length. Corymbs terminal, on stout peduncles from 

 1.5 to 3 centimetres long, umbelliform, from 5 to 7 centimetres in diameter, densely clothed with 

 yellowish white tomentum ; rays usually five. Flowers mostly on rays of the third order ; ovary 

 cylindric, 2 millimetres long, glabrous ; calyx-teeth ovate, glabrous or with a few stellate hairs on 

 the margins ; corolla campanulate-rotate, white, from 8 to 9 millimetres in diameter, the lobes 

 orbicular-ovate, about as long as the tube ; stamens slightly shorter than the corolla or about as 

 long ; anthers suborbicular, yellow ; style short and thick, scarcely exceeding the sepals. Drupe 

 ovoid, about 8 millimetres long, bluish black, crowned by the persistent calyx ; stone ovoid, com- 

 pressed, 7 millimetres long and 5 millimetres broad, with three ventral grooves and two shallow 

 dorsal grooves; seed covered with red resinous glands. 



A shrub, 1.20 metres high (according to Henry), with upright virgate stems, lateral branches 

 spreading at obtuse angles, and branchlets covered when they first appear with dense yellowish 

 or grayish white tomentum, soon becoming glabrous, and reddish brown in their second year. 

 Winter-buds naked. Flowers appear in spring with the young leaves. 



China: Hupeh, A. Henry (Nos. 260, 620), E. H. Wilson (No. 31); Szech'uan, E. Faber 

 (ex Hemsley) ; Kweichau, W. Mesny (ex Hemsley). 



Viburnum utile, var. el^agnifolium, n. var. 



This differs from the type in its more slender branches covered while young with yellowish brown tomentum, in the 

 - oblong-lanceolate slender-petioled leaves, light yellowish green above, in the much smaller few-flowered inflo- 

 yiot exceeding 3 centimetres in diameter, and in the fruits being mostly on rays of the second order, 

 /^•estern Hupeh, E. H. Wilson (No. 31, partly, the fruiting branch in Herb. Arnold Arboretum). 

 G^i utile, is distinguished from most species of the section Lantana by its thick coriaceous entire leaves, smooth 

 /us above and densely stellate-tomentose beneath. From the more closely related Viburnum congestum, 

 t differs in the larger flowers and shorter corolla-tube, and from Viburnum Bockii, Grabner, and Viburnum 

 Jrabner, in the thicker leaves whitish tomentose beneath, 

 ccording to Dr. Henry, the branches are used for making pipe-stems. 

 Viburnum utile is now in cultivation in the Veitchian nurseries, near London, and is described as a neat and attrac- 



Alfred Rehder. 



Arnold Arboretur 



1 Hortus Veitchi, 410 (1906). 



