278 . VIBU RNACE AS. VIBURNUM. 
- celled, two of the cells containing several imperfect ovules, the third 
a solitary fertile ovule; fruit dry; 1-seeded. , 
4. Symphoricarpos. Shrubs with simple or merely lobed leaves: corolla 
campanulate, regular or nearly so, 4-5-lobed: stamens as many as ~ 
lobes of the corolla: ovary 4-celled, but the berry-like fruit only 
2-seeded. . 
5. Lonicera. Climbing or erect herbs with simple leaves: corolla tub- 
ular, more or less’ irregular, commonly 2-lipped: stamens 5: ovary 
and berry-like fruit 2-3-celled, several-seeded. 
Tribe 1. Sambucexr H. B: K. Corolla regular, short, rotate or 
open-campanulate, 5 lobed. Styles short, or hardly any: stigmas 
3-5; ovary I-d-celled: ovules solitary. Fruit baccate-drupaceous, 
with 1-5 seed-like nutlets; inflorescence terminal and cymose. 
1 VIBURNUM Tourn. 
Shrubs or small trees with petioled, undivided or lobed stipu- 
late or. pseudostipulate leaves and mostly white flowers in _ter- 
minal cymes, the marginal ones sometimes sterile and radiant. 
Limb of the calyx 5-toothed. Corolla rotate, sometimes some- 
what tubular or campanulate, 5-lobed. Stamens 5: ovary 1-5- 
celled, one of the cells containing a single suspended oyule. the 
other abortive: stigmas 3, sessile. Fruit drupaceous, with a 
thin pulp, 2-seeded. Embryo minute, at the extremity of the 
fleshy albumen. 3 
§ 1. Cyme never radiant: drupes blue or dark purple or 
black. 
V. ellipticum Hook. FI. i, 280. ‘An erect shrub 2-10 feet high; win- 
ter buds scaly: leaves from orbicular-oyal to,elliptical-oblong, rounded at 
both ends, dentate above the middle, not lobed, at length rather coriace- 
ous, 3-d-nerved from the base, the nerves ascending or parallel, pubescent 
with simple hairs or glabrate above; on slender petioles; stipules subu- 
late to setaceous: cymes pedunculate, with 5-7 primary rays. Corolla 4-5 
lines in diameter: filaments equalling the corolla: stone of the fruit, 
deeply and broadly. sulcate on both faces, the furrow of one face divided 
by a median ridge. On rocky ridges, Washington to California. 
2. Oputus Tourn. Cymes radiant or not radiant: drupes 
light red, acid, edible, globose. - 
Vv. Opulus L. Sp. 268. Usually nearly or quite glabrous: stems 4-10 
feet high: winter buds scaly: leaves dilated, 3-lobed, with accuminate 
lobes, incisely dentate or the upper ones entire, rounded or broadly cune- 
ate at base, palmately or pedately 3-5-ribbed, on slender petioles bearing 
2 or more glands at or near the summit and usually setaceous stipules 
near the base: cymes rather ample, terminating several-leaved branchlets, 
radiant: anthers exserted: fruit nearly a half inch long, red, juicy, glo- 
bose ; stone flat, orbicular, even. In swamps and along mountain streams, 
Oregon to British Columbia, Pennsylvania. C43 
VY. pauciflorum Pylaie in Herb. T. & G. Fl. ii, 17. A> straggling 
shrub 2-10 feet high with rather slender branches: leaves roundish or 
broadly oval in outline, unequally dentate, many of them obscurely or 
distinctly 3-lobed, about .5-nerved at base, loosely veined, glabrous or 
sparsely pubescent; 1-4 inches long: cymes small, terminating short and 
