1 80 CAPRIFOLI ACE^. 



Nilgiris : Pykara waterfall-road, near the short cut to Glen 

 Morgan estate : flowering May. Kotagiri and Vellyengry hill 

 (Wight). Not collected on Pulneys. Previously recorded only 

 by Wight on the Nilgiris. Fyso?i 2696. Bourne (Coonoor). 



CAPRIFOLIACE/E. 



Trees, shrubs, or stragglers with opposite leaves joined 

 by lines round the stem but no definite stipules : petals 

 five, united at least at the base with a short tube : stamens 

 as many: ovary inferior of two cells each with one 

 pendent ovule : fruit usually a drupe. 



Species about 200 mostly in the northern hemisphere. 



Western Europe has about 10 species. Elder, Ger. Flieder, 

 Fr. Surean. 



VIBURNUM. F.B.1. 74111. 



Guelder Rose, 

 Trees and shrubs with opposite simple leaves, and 

 characterised by the terminal rather flat-topped cymose 

 panicles or corymbs of small white or cream-coloured 

 flowers, and the seeds of a flat oval more or less deeply 

 grooved lengthwise so that the cross section is a T-shape. 



Species 100 in temperate and sub-tropical regions, chiefly 

 of Asia and North America. In Europe both wild and 

 cultivated, Guelder Rose. Wayfaring tree ; Fr. Viorne, Ger. 

 Schlinge. 



f Corolla rotate (tubular portion very short) 



a ^ V. acuminatum DC. 



y Corolla tubular with spreading lobes b 



{ Leaves entire : bracts not conspicuous. V. coriaceum. 

 V J Leaves sinuate : foliage Hght green : bracts linear . . . 

 " ] " V. hebanthum. 



[ Leaves dentate with crimson stalks . . V. erubescens. 



Viburnum acuminatum DC; Wall. Cat. 4651 ! ; F.BJ, 

 iii 5 as V. punctatum Ham., var acuminata ; III 7 *, A 

 small tree. Leaves elliptic, 3 to 5 inches long and usually 

 less than half as broad, entire, acuminate, with recurved 

 margins, and covered on the underside with small round 



