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ing the completion of the series, and in consideration of the libeiality of 

 the Government of the Straits Settlements which has made feasible a 

 more rapid rate of publication, it has been arranged that Mr. J. S. 

 G-arable will henceforth, in the majority of the orders belonging to 

 Gorolliflorse and Incompletse, work in collaboration with Sir George King; 

 while certain orders will be worked out independently by botanical 

 friends, who have kindly promised their aid. 



Order LVIII. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



Small trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, rarely herbs. Leaves op- 

 posite, rarely alternate, simple, lobed or imparipinnate ; stipules usually 

 absent. Inflorescence various, usually cymose ; flowers hermaphrodite, re- 

 gular or irregular. Calyx adnate to the ovaiy ; lobes 5, superior, usually 

 imbricate, rarely valvate. Corolla superior, gamopetalous, tubular, 

 funnel-shapel or rotate ; limb 6-fid, lobes imbricate. Stamens 5, rarely 4, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate with the lobes ; filaments filiform 

 or subulate ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-6-, rarely 1-celled ; style terminal, stigma capitate, undivided 

 or bifid, sometimes short and 3-lobed ; ovules sometimes solitary, pendu- 

 lous, sometimes many, biseriate, anatropous. Fruit a berry or drupe or 

 sometimes dry and indehiscent, many-celled, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds 

 single or many in each cell ; testa crustaceous or hard ; albumen fleshy, 

 copious ; embryo usually minute, ovoid or clavate, 2-fid, radicle smooth, 

 cotyledons ovate. — Distrtb. Genera 13, species 200 to 220 ; chiefly found 

 in the Northern Hemisphere more especially in temperate regions ; a 

 few in Australia and South America ; none in tropical or Southern 



Africa. 



Viburnum, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, rarely alternately verticillate, 

 simple, petiolate ; entire, serrate or dentate, sometimes palmately lobed ; 

 sometimes stellately pubescent, sometimes gland-dotted ; stipules usually 

 inconspicuous or absent, in a few cases very large. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite, in terminal or subterminal subumbellate corymbs, the branches 

 cymose or panicled ; bracts few, small ; bracteoles 1 to 2, usually very 

 small, generally quickly deciduous. Calyx-tube turbinate, cylindric or 

 clavate ; limb short, 6-toothed, persistent. Corolla white, pink or 

 yellowish; rotate, campanulate or tubular; lobes 5, equal, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla, alternate with the lobes ; anthers 

 oblong, usually exserted ; filaments linear or subulate. Ovary 1-3- 

 celled; style short, conical, stigma small, obscurely 3-lobed; ovules 

 solitary in the cells, pendulous. Fruit a drupe 1 - or rarely 2-3-celled, 

 1-seeded ; endocarp tough, papery or crustaceous. Seed oblong, com- 



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