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pressed, grooved, the edges sometimes incurved ; testa membranaceous ; 

 albumen fleshy, sometimes ruminate ; embryo minute, cotyledons thin. — 

 DisTRiB. Species over 80, chiefly of the temperate and sub-temperate 

 regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe and Asia ; a few in the 

 West Indies, South America and Madagascar. 



Leaves entire : — 



Corolla rotate; filaments long, linear; calyx-tube 



pubescent ... ... ... ... 1. V. sambuchium. 



Corolla tubular; filaments sbort, subulate; calyx- 

 tube glabrous ... ... ... ... 2. V.Beccarii. 



Leaves dentate or serrate ; calyx-tube glabrous ... 3. V. lutescens. 



1. ViBUHNDM SAMBUCINUM, Reinw. ; Blume Bijdr. 656. A large 

 shrub or small tree up to 30 feet high; young branches stout, smooth, 

 somewhat angled ; youngest parts and branches of the inflorescence 

 brown, stellate-pubescent. Leaves opposite, entire, thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both 

 surfaces glabi-ous except for a few hairs on the midrib beneath and occa- 

 sional tufts in the axils of the main-nerves ; main-nerves 4-6 pairs, promi- 

 nent, curved upwards, joined by prominent arches near the margin, lesser 

 nerves reticulate ; length 5 to 10 in., breadth 1-5 to 4 in., petiole -75 to 

 1'25 in., pilose especially on the inner surface. Corymh terminal, 

 usually peduncled but sometimes nearly sessile, umbellate, primary 

 branches 6 to 8 and "5 to 1 in. long, upper cymosely branched, short in 

 flower, longer in fruit ; bracts of pi'imary branches very early deciduous, 

 linear-spathulate, "2 to '3 in. long, bracteoles also very deciduous, very 

 short, linear-oblong, densely brown stellate-pubescent. Calyx-tuhe 

 cylindric, -05 in. long, pubescent; lobes 5 spreading, lanceolate-acute. 

 Corolla hemispheric in bud, rotate when open; lobes 6, rounded, 

 imbricate, yellow-white. Stamens 5; anthers oblong, exserted; filaments 

 longer than the petals, much folded in bud. Ovary 1-celled, style 

 conical. Fruit a drupe, broadly ovate, suddenly acute, compressed, 

 wrinkled, 2-grooved on one and 3-gi-ooved on the other face, '35 in. long, 

 •2 in. broad, endocarp thick, osseous. DC. Prodr. IV. 325 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. (1856) 120 ; Oersted in Vidensk. Meddel. (1860) 299, t. 7, 

 figs, n-13; C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 5; Koord. & 

 Val. Boomsoort. Java in Mededeel. 'sLands Plant. XXXHI. ( 1900) 40. 

 F. integerrimum, Wall. Cat. 457 ; DC. Prodr. IV. 324 ; Hook. fil. and 

 Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 476. Premna (?), Wall. Cat. 9077. 



Pbrak: Wray 1237, 1483, 2951; Scortechini 514. Penang : Wall 

 457; Walker 92, 272; Maingay (K.D.) 712/2; Ki^ig's Collector 1586, 

 2273, 5202 ; Curtis 278. Malacca : Gri0h 3395. Singapore : Ridley 

 6335. DiSTKiB. Sumatra; Java; Borneo. 



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