3. Viburnum (Tourn.) L. 
Shrubs with opposite Simple leaves. Flowers white in small 
terminal cymes. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla 5=lobed, saucer-shaped. 
Stamens 5, included, inserted near the base of the corolla. Ovary 
inferior, l-3-chambered. Fruit a drupe, the stone flattened, rugose, 
with a flat ridge along one surface. 
1. V. pauciflorum Pylaie. Squashberry. ———-> A graceful shrub 1-2 Me 
tall, branching mostly from the base, the branches Slender, bark grey, tinged 
with red, scurfy at the base, the branchlets similar, the lenticels incon- 
spicuous, roundish, l-2 mm. across; leaf-blades 5-8 cm. in diameter (15 on. 
in shade forms) rotund in outline » Shallowly 3-lobed, the lobes shortly 
acuminate, rounded at the base » the margins rather acutely serrate-dentate ; 
the teeth apiculate, both surfaces glabrous, somewhat glossy, dark green 
above, borne on reddish petioles 1-2 cm. long; (some leaves may be elliptical 
and unlobed); flowers in small umbellate cymes terminating short lateral 
branches from the second year wood, the peduncles 1-1.5 mm. long, sparingly 
hirsute, each bearing 2-3 flowers on pedicels 1-3 mm. long; corolla white, 
its lobes 2-2.5 mm. long ,subequal to the tube; stemens scarcely exserted 
from the cup$ drupe 8-10 mm. in diameter, bright red, glosey7, the stone 2 mm. 
thick,6-7 in diameter, flattened-oval. 
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