Viburnum.] CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 575 



in terminal or subterminal umbels, corymbs or thyrsoid panicles, 

 white greenish or pink ; bracts and bracteoles usually deciduous. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate or cylindric ; lobes 5, short, persistent. 

 Corolla rotate, tubular or campanulate, lobes 5. Stamens 5, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube. Ovary 1-3-celled ; ovules 1 in each 

 cell, pendulous ; style short ; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a dry or 

 fleshy drupe, usually 1-seeded; endocarp crustaceous, ridged and 

 furrowed or excavated on one side. Seed compressed ; albumen 

 uniform or ruminate ; embryo minute with small cotyledons and 

 cylindric superior radicle. 



Flowers in erect compound umbels : 



Corolla rotate, the lobes ovate, spreading, bracts persistent ; leaves 

 elliptic, acuminate, entire, the margins recurved, up to 5 in. long, 

 2 in. broad, covered beneath, like the branchlets and inflorescence, 

 with round peltate scales ; drupe oblong, flattened, punctate 



1. acuminatum. 



Corolla tubular, the lobes short, erect ; drupe glabrous ; no peltate 

 scales but tufts of hair in the axils of the leaf -nerves beneath : 

 Corolla glabrous ; bracteoles deciduous ; drupe ellipsoid ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, entire or slightly serrate with 

 about 4-6 pairs of nerves the lower only subopposite. 



2. coriaceum. 



Corolla pubescent ; bracteoles linear, persistent ; drupe ovoid ; 

 leaves ovate, acute, distantly slightly dentate with about 4 pairs 

 of nerves, the 2 lower prominent, opposite or subopposite from 



near the base 3. JiebciMthum. 



Flowers in drooping panicles; corolla cylindric, the lobes hypo- 

 crateriform, spreading ; no peltate scales, but the inflorescence, nerve- 

 axils and petioles villous ; leaves ovate, acute, serrate, with about 

 4-6 pairs of prominent, subopposite or alternate nerves; drupe ovoid- 

 oblong, the endocarp with a T-shaped ventral groove ... 4. erubescens. 



1. VIBURNUM ACUMINATUM, Wall. ; W. & A. 388; Wt. Ic. t. 



1021. V. pimctatum, Ham., var. acuminatum, C. B. Clarke 



in F. B. I. iii. 5 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 217. 



N. Circars, Mahendragiri Hill at 4,000 ft. ; Deccaii, in 

 Mysore and the hills of N. Coimbatore ; W. Ghats, from 

 Mysore to Travancore, in evergreen forests at 3,000 to 

 6,000 ft. 

 A small evergreen tree with white flowers. Bark thin, 



