Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . tre by the much larger size, narrower sinus, andthe pubescence. Acer platanoides differs from the Plane(p. 230) not only in having opposite leaves, but also in itsvenation and its lack of stellate hairs ; its buds are alsonot buried, and the base of the petiole not hollowed intoa cup.] (b) Leaves not lobed, at most sinuate or toothed. [For (ii) (i) Margins of leaf serrate or dentate. see p. 11)0.] (a) Leaves large, lanceolate, polished, ever-green coriaceous. Aucuba japonica, Thunb. Aucuba (Fig. 49). Evergreenshrub, with
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Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . tre by the much larger size, narrower sinus, andthe pubescence. Acer platanoides differs from the Plane(p. 230) not only in having opposite leaves, but also in itsvenation and its lack of stellate hairs ; its buds are alsonot buried, and the base of the petiole not hollowed intoa cup.] (b) Leaves not lobed, at most sinuate or toothed. [For (ii) (i) Margins of leaf serrate or dentate. see p. 11)0.] (a) Leaves large, lanceolate, polished, ever-green coriaceous. Aucuba japonica, Thunb. Aucuba (Fig. 49). Evergreenshrub, with opposite, petiolate, exstipulate, coriaceous, shining green leaves. Lamina ovate-lanceolate acuminate, coarsely serrate; petiole dilated below, articulated. Theleaves are often variegated with yellow blotches. Deadleaves brown. Often called Laurel, but has nothing incommon with either the true Laurels (Laurus) or theCherry Laurel (Primus). WAYFARING TREE 187 Venation pinnate with a tendency to loop, and soonbreaking into a network obscure above. Midrib promi-nent below.. Fig. 49. Aucuba, Aucuba japonica, p. 186 (E & P). (/3) Leaves ovate or elliptic, not polished orevergreen, nor coriaceous. * Leaves and shoots greyish mealy withstellate hairs; margins dentate-serrate.Venation pinnate with numerous forkedsecondaries. Viburnum Lantana, L. Wayfaring Tree (Fig. 50).Shrub with scurfy or mealy shoots and foliage. Leaveslarge and thick, 6—15 x 4—9 cm., ovate or oval, acute orrather obtuse, base rounded or cordate, often oblique;finely dentate-serrate, dark green, rugose, plaited, withmore or less appressed and mostly simple hairs above, giving a soft and velvety appearance; greyish with stellatehairs beneath, especially abundant on the venation, look-ing like mealy or scurfy whitish down. Petiole short 188 WAYFARING TREE