8 LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACER, (C. B. Clarke.) [ Viburnum. 
summit of the tube. Drupe 4 by lin. ellipsoid, scarcely compressed, red, crowned 
by the thick short style.—Deccan specimens have more slender panicles, smaller 
flowers and rather narrower berries than Himalayan, but some Ceylon specimens 
appear altogether undistinguishable from the Himalayan. 
16. V. nervosum, Don Prodr. 141, not of Hk. A Arn. ; leaves elliptic- 
oblong acute crenate-serrate parallel-nerved hairy on the nerves beneath, cymes 
subcapitate silky, bracts oblong obtuse silky deciduous. DC. Prodr. iv. 327; 
H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 178; Brandis For. Fl. 259. "V. grandi- 
florum, Wall. Cat. 464; DC. l.c. 329; Oersted in Vidensk, Meddel. 1860, 295, 
t. 6, fig. 1-4 (Solenotinus). 
Himaraya, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Kasnwrn to Sixxrm, not common; Wallich, &e. 
A large shrub, or gnarled small tree; branchlets pilose. Leaves 24-3 by 1} in., 
scarcely acuminate, base cuneate, adult glabrous above; petiole }-4 in. Cymes 
appear before the leaves; branches very short; outer bracts ovate, } in. diam., 
obtuse; inner 2 by } in., oblong. Calya-tube glabrous, teeth small, irregular, often 
ciliate. Corolla-tube 1-1 in.; lobes  in., elliptic, spreading, rose. Stamens inserted 
2 near the top of the corolla-tube, 3 somewhat lower down. Drupe nearly 4 by } in., 
ellipsoid, hardly compressed. 
17. V. foetens, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 75, t. 84; leaves elliptic or 
oblong crenate-serrate glabrous, cymes thyrsiform branches glabrous or sparingly 
ilose ultimately lax. Hk. f. & T. in Journ, Linn, Soc. ii, 178; Brandis For. 
l. 269. 
Kasumir, alt. 6-10,000 ft., from Murrre to CHUMBA ; Jacquemont, &e. not 
rare. 
A large shrub; branchlets glabrous, or laxly pubescent. Leaves 3 by 1-13 in., 
shortly acute, base cuneate or obtuse, parallel-nerved, adult glabrous except tufts of 
hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath. Inflorescence nearly as in V. mervoswen, 
Don, but soon more lax and corolla larger; outer bracts ovate or oblong, deciduous ; 
bracteoles linear, scarious, pubescent. Stamens inserted 2 near the top of the 
ae 3 lower down. Drupe 4-3 by } in., ellipsoid, little compressed, red. 
ible, 
4. TRIOSTEUM, Linn, 
Herbs; stems from a perennial stock, simple, erect. Leaves opposite, sesse, 
connate, obovate, entire or sinuate. Flowers whorled in short terminal spikes 
(axillary in the non-Indian species), lurid, 2-bracteolate. Calyx-tube ovoid ; 
lobes 5, short or long and foliaceous, persistent. Corolla narrow funnel-shaped, 
gibbous at the base; lobes 5, unequal, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted 
on the corolla-tube ; anthers linear, included. Ovary 3—5-celled ; style filiform, 
included, stigma capitate 3-5-lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous. 
Berry 2-3- (rarely 4-5-) celled, 2-3-seeded. Seeds oblong, angular; testh 
Ee albumen fleshy ; embryo minute.—Species 3; 2 N. American, 1 Hima- 
ayan, 
l. T. hirsutum, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 180; 
hairy, spike short terminal, calyx-lobes minute, drupe 3-seeded. DC. Prodr. 
iv. 930. T. himalayanum, Wall. Cat. 484; DC. Prodr. l c; H. f. & T. i 
Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 173. 
Nipat; Gossain Than, Wallich. Sikxiw ; alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H. Kumaon 
alt. 10,500 ft., Strach. d Winterb. 
Patently hairy. Stems 18 in. Leaves broadly elliptic-obovate obtuse, hairy on 
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