TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBTIKNTJM CYLIKDRICIJM, Hamilt. 



Viburnum cylindricum, Hamilton ex Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 142 (1825 l ). — De Candolle, 



Prodr. iv. 329. 

 Viburnum coriaceum, Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 656 (1825). — De Candolle, Prodr. iv. 



329. — Hooker f. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii. 179. — Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 120.— 



Brandis, Forest FL Brit. Ind. 259. — Clarke, Hooker/. Fl. Brit. Ind. hi. 5. — Hemsley, Jour. 



Linn. Soc. xxiii. 351. — Koorders & Valeton, Bijdr. Boomsort. Java, v. 38. — Griibner, 



Engler Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 587. 



Leaves coriaceous, persistent, elliptic to oblong or ovate-oblong, acuminate, narrowed or some- 

 times rounded at the base, entire or more often with a few remote short and obtuse teeth, 

 glabrous, dark yellowish green and lustrous on the upper surface, lighter green and sparingly 

 dotted with minute dark glands on the lower surface, from 8 to 16 centimetres long and from 

 3 to 6 centimetres broad, with three or four pairs of anastomosing veins prominent beneath and 

 connected by conspicuous veinlets ; petioles grooved, glabrous, from 1 to 3 centimetres in length. 

 Corymbs terminal, convex, glabrous, from 6 to 10 centimetres in diameter, on peduncles from 

 2 to 6 centimetres long ; rays usually seven, of nearly equal length ; flowers mostly on rays of the 

 third order ; ovary ovoid or turbinate, glandular, with very minute and indistinct calyx-lobes ; 

 corolla tubular-campanulate, from 4: to 5 millimetres long, minutely lepidote, white or slightly 

 tinged with pink, the lobes orbicular-ovate, upright, 1 millimetre in length ; stamens exceeding 

 the limb of the corolla; anthers oblong; style short and thick, conical. Drupe ovoid, small, 

 bluish black, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes ; stone ovoid, slightly compressed, 4.5 millime- 

 tres high and 3.5 millimetres broad, with one shallow ventral groove and two shallow dorsal 

 grooves; seed brownish red. 



A tree, occasionally 15 metres high, with glabrous branchlets and reddish or grayish brown 

 branches marked by small scattered lenticels. Winter-buds with one pair of scales. 



China: western Hupeh, E. H. Wilson (Nos. 2493 and 3729); Szech'uan, Mount Omei, alti- 

 tude 1000 metres, E. Faber (ex Grabner) ; Yunnan, altitude from 1700 to 2000 metres, A. 

 Henry (Nos. 9757, 9757 c, and 9757 d) ; also in India and Java. 



Viburnum cylindricum has no close relationship with any other species. In the shape of the corolla it resembles 

 Viburnum urceolatum, Siebold & Zuccarini, which differs widely from it, however, in other characters. 



Viburnum cylindricum seems to be still little known in gardens ; as shown by a specimen in the herbarium of the 

 Arnold Arboretum it was in cultivation about 1882 at Kew, where it had been introduced from India, but was appar- 

 ently lost soon afterwards. Recently it has been introduced from Yunnan into the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 2 and 

 from Hupeh into the Veitchian nurseries. The handsome evergreen foliage of this species resembles that of a green 

 Aucuba and constitutes its chief ornamental feature ; its flowers and fruits are excelled in beauty by those of most 



Alfred Rehdek. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



1 Don's Prodromus Florce Nepalensis, the preface of which is dated October, 1824, \ 

 1825, while part 13 of Blume's Bijdragen containing the description of Viburnum coriaceum could a 

 the end of 1825, as it was the last of the thirteen parts published in that year, part 14 being dated 



2 Bean, The Garden, lvi. 79 (1899). Viburnum cylindricum has flowered in the Vilmorin Arbore 



