NEILGHERRY PLANTS. "15 
DeCandolle divides the genus into three sections—Lentago, Opulus and Solenotinus. To the first we 
have referred V. acuminatum and capitellatum; and to the last V. hebanthum and Wightianum if inthis distri- 
bution we are correct, these two sections must indeed be very arbitrary and quite inapplicable in practice, as I 
have never tes best able to apply them: the error, however, may be ours, not his, as none of our species are 
described by 
VIBURNUM ACUMINATUM, (Wall :) young bebe ace, 
petioles, and peduncles dotted with small 3 colour. 
leaves elliptical, acuminated a nds, 
ite entire with margin sighty recurved, 
: upper side shining omit covered with m 
ning rusty coloured dots beitiyt termin ak 
wa trichotomiouy, often ret haw the leaves: stig- 
sessile: berry oval-oblong—W. and A. Prod. 
*: ; 
A common and ar amid Anes = 
rarely, if ever met with,at the elevat ota 
und : at Coonoor and for ie or frst miles “ere 
that place, it is ag ommon and wh ower, a 
Ihave specimens fom several 
but have never seen it under 
three or aes thousand feet of elevat on. 
n some situations it may almost a called a small 
trees penetally itis a mg ramous shrub. 
VIBURNUM CAPITELLATUM Ow and A.:) free 
RNUM HEBANTHUM, (W. and A. :) branches, 
petiole es, oe general peduncles see 
cal or o 
of the nerv — under side, otherwise glabrous : 
partial peduncles of the corm escent : corolla 
tubula i oeccinne “So softly pubescent, limb very small, 
nearly erect, 4-5 % a s —_ t tube: style 
ct, 
very — an a Prod, 
 ectiall tree, all over the 
The specimen from which 
on a 
Av mon ahr or 
higher ranges sof the hills. 
do 
east striking a ee Neilgherry species. 
show its flowers in February, but is not in perkeblin 
until March pe! sak 
VipuRNUM WIGHTIANUM, :) ena 
(Wall 
petioles, peduncles, pedicel and flowers glabro 
t the 
from scales, quite slubrocs except in ‘the axils of the 
t leaves oval, shor nf fa nated, obtuse att oy 
cymes : ewhat umbel-shap p ; 
tite ; flowers umbellate, several together, nearly sessile the nerves oar, ly pubescent and their axils woolly: 
at the ee ve — ultimate divisions : r-buds cormyb shortly peduncled, somewhat panicle- erate 
visco stigmas sessile: eee oval- pte seats pubescent and "ciliated corolla hypo 
bea Wv. id A. Prod. p. 388, eriform ; limb spreading, ee, shinies: 4 
The specimens from which accompanying times Sinton than the er ovary linear: style very 
rawing was made were found in the pte ts te short and thick.—W. a d. 
of Kotagherr ty. I have other specimens from A moderate tree or sree shrub frequent in — 
Pulny range, found at a nearly similar beats nd but woods about Ootacamund, flowering in 
April 
May, but generally 6 be met with at other seabioe: 
The fruit in this, like those of the pr eceding, is an 
ripe. 
I do not rec so having observed it 
I aha 
oval succulent drupe, red and subacid when ri 
mun ndsome shrub, acy maay “allied 
to the next, "but seisleiitty distinct. Flowers. duri ing 
the autumnal months, 
LONICERA—HoneEYsvckLe. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, campanulate, or infundibuliform: the limb 5-cleft, often irregular. Sta- 
mens 5. Style filiform. Stigma capitate. Berry 3- (or by abortion sometimes 2-) celled, the cells few-seeded. 
Seeds crustaceous. Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, sometimes connate, entire or occasionally 
ightly runcinate, - Inflorescence axillary, various.—W. and A. Prod. p. 389 
Many of the species of this genus, like those of Viburnum, are general favourites as ornamental plants, 
especially among the lovers of arbours, for the construction of which the trailing habit, and the profusion and 
fragrance of their flowers admirably adapt them. In regard to the limits of the genus different Botanists have 
taken very different views. Linnzus combined 4 of Tourniforts genera, in the formation of his genus Lonicera, 
Jussieu took a different view, and divided the Linnean genus into two, Caprifolium and Xylosteon, thereby ob- 
literating Linnzeus’ generic name. This division was followed by most Botanists until the publication of the 
4th volume of DeCandolle’s Prodromus, where he restored the Linnean genus, vastly augmented in the number 
of its species, though he had himself previously followed Jussieu. Since that time Botanists generally seem to 
have followed that great authority in reviving Lonicera as the generic name, and reducing Caprifolium and 
Xylosteon to the rank of subgenera. Lindley, however, in a very recent work of his, ‘ School Botany,” still 
retains the genus Caprifolium, as distinct from Xylosteon or Lonicera, (the name he has by some oversight em- 
a 
