8 LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) [Viburnum. 



summit of the tube. Drupe by in., ellipsoid, scarcely compressed, red, crowned 

 by the thick short style. Deccan 'specimens have more slender panicles, smaller 

 flowers and rather narrower berries than Himalayan, but some Ceylon specimens 

 appear altogether undistinguishable from the Himalayan. 



16. V. nervosum, Don Prodr. 141, not of Hk. $ Am. ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong acute crenate-serrate parallel-nerved hairy on the nerves beneath, cyuies 

 subcapitate silky, bracts oblong obtuse silky deciduous. DC, Prodr. iv. 327; 

 H. f. % T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 178 ; Brandts For. Fl. 259. V. grandi- 

 floruni, Wall. Cat. 464 ; DC. 1. c. 329 ; Oersted in . Videmk. MeddeL 1860, 295, 

 t. Q,jig. 1-4 (Solenotinus). 



HIMALAYA, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from KASHMIR to SIKKIM, not common ; Wallich, &c. 



A large shrub, or gnarled small tree ; branchlets pilose. Leaves 2-3 by 1^ in., 

 scarcely acuminate, base cuneate, adult glabrous above; petiole \-^ in. Cymes 

 appear before the leaves; branches very short; outer bracts ovate, f in. diam., 

 obtuse; inner J by in., oblong. Calyx-lube glabrous, teeth small, irregular, often 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube \-^ in. ; lobes in., elliptic, spreading, rose. Stamens inserted 

 2 near the top of the corolla-tube, 3 somewhat lower down. Drupe nearly ^ by ^ in., 

 ellipsoid, hardly compressed. 



17. V. foetens, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. 75, t. 84; leaves elliptic or 

 oblong crenate-serrate glabrous, cymes thyrsiform branches glabrous or sparingly 

 pilose ultimately lax. Hk. f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 178 ; Brdndis For. 

 FL 259. 



KASHMIR, alt. 6-10,000 ft., from MURREE to CHUMBA; Jacguemont, &c., not 

 rare. 



A large shrub; branchlets glabrous, or laxly pubescent. Leaves 3 by 1-1 i n -> 

 shortly acute, base cuneate or obtuse, parallel-nerved, adult glabrous except tufts of 

 hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath. Inflorescence nearly as in V. nervosum, 

 Don, but soon more lax and corolla larger ; outer bracts ovate or oblong, deciduous ; 

 bracteoles linear, scarious, pubescent. Stamens inserted 2 near the top of the 

 corolla-tube, 3 lower down. Drupe ^-^ by in., ellipsoid, little compressed, red. 

 edible. 



4. TRIOSTEUTO, Linn. 



Herbs ; stems from a perennial stock, simple, erect. Leaves opposite, sessile, 

 connate, obovate, entire or sinuate. Flowers whorled in short terminal spikes 

 (axillary in the non-Indian species), lurid, 2-bracteolate. Calyx-tube ovoid ; 

 lobes 5, short or long and foliaceous, persistent. Corolla narrow funnel-shaped, 

 gibbous at the base ; lobes 5, unequal, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the corolla-tube ; anthers linear, included. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style filiform, 

 included, stigma capitate 3-5-lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous. 

 Berry 2-3- (rarely 4-5-) celled, 2-3-seeded. Seeds oblong, angular ; testa 

 bony ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute. Species 3 ; 2 N. American, 1 Hima- 

 layan. 



1. T. hirsutum, Wall in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 180; 

 hairy, spike short terminal, calyx-lobes minute, drupe 3-seeded. DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 330. T. hmialayanum, Wall. Cat. 484; DC. Prodr. 1. c.-, H. f. % T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 173. 



NIPAL; Gossain Than, Wallich. SIKKIM; alt. 10-12,000 ft, J. D. H. KUMAON; 

 alt. 10,500 ft., Strach. $ Winterb. 



Patently hairy. Stems 18 in. Leaves broadly elliptic-obovate obtuse, hairy on 



