TREES AND SHRUBS. 



VIBURNUM DASYANTHUM, Rehd. 



VlBTTKlTUM DASYANTHTJM, n. Sp. 



Leaves membranaceous, ovate or elliptic to oblong, long-acuminate, rounded at tbe base, 

 remotely denticulate, dark green and glabrous on the upper surface, lighter green and nearly 

 glabrous on the lower surface, from 6 to 12 centimetres long and from 2.5 to 5.5 centimetres 

 broad, with six or seven pairs of straight veins slightly pilose like the midribs below and furnished 

 with tufts of axillary hairs ; petioles slender, from 1.5 to 2 centimetres in length, glabrous and 

 purplish. Corymbs terminal, lax, from 8 to 10 centimetres in diameter, on glabrous purplish 

 peduncles from 1 to 3 centimetres long ; rays usually seven, sometimes five, glabrous, their rami- 

 fications densely villous ; flowers on rays of the third or fourth order ; ovary ovoid, 1 millimetre 

 ^ng, densely villous like the short broadly ovate calyx-teeth; corolla campanulate-rotate, densely 

 villous outside, the lobes ovate, slightly longer than the tube; stamens exceeding the corolla; 

 "~ - ithers oval, yellow. Drupe ovoid, red, about 8 millimetres in length ; stone broadly ovoid, com- 

 p3. pointed at the apex, rounded at the base, with one ventral groove and two shallow dorsal 

 ^ seed smooth, reddish. 



\, about 2.5 metres high (according to Wilson), with glabrous and lustrous branchlets, 

 |\i brown or dark purple branches. Winter-buds with two pairs of scales. 

 Tfapeh, Patung, E. H. Wilson (No. 2218 in Herb. Arnold Arboretum). 



thum is most closely related to Viburnum betulifolium, Batalin, but is easily distinguished from that 

 flowers and raylets, and by the shape and serration of the leaves. 



Alfred Kehdek. 



