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almost as long as itself, with cylindro- conical radical and oval inferior 

 cotyledons. The Elders are trees, shrubs or even perennial herbs 

 mostly of the temperate regions of both worlds. The leaves are 

 opposite, imparipinnate, with dentate or laciniate folioles, often 

 accompanied with stipels. At the base of the leaves themselves are 

 foliaceous stipules or glandular bodies in place of them. The flowers' 



Sambucus nigra. 



Fig. 387. Fruit (f). 



Fig. 389. Seed (f). 



Fig. 388. Long. sect, 

 of fruit. 



are in clusters or corymbs of cymes which may become uniparous, 

 especially near the extremity;^ they are articulate and accompanied 

 with bracteoles. About ten ^ species are enumerated. 



Viburnum closely resembles the Elders. The lobes of the calyx 

 are more or less developed, sometimes quincuncial; the corolla is 

 variable in form, imbricate ; and the ovary is 1-3-celled, in most cases 

 only one being fertile and uniovulate. The fruit is drupaceous, often 

 little fleshy, mostly monospermous. The albumen of the seed is 

 sometimes ruminate. They are trees and shrubs of the temperate 

 regions of the northern hemisphere; they are also found in the 

 Andean regions of both Americas, in the Antilles and Madagascar. 

 The leaves are opposite or verticillate, simple, with small or no 

 stipules. The inflorescence and other parts of their organization 

 are ordinarily the same as in the Elders. 



^ Small or moderate, white, yellowish or 

 pink, often odorous. 



2 There also they may become unisexual. 



'Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. t. 729-731.— 

 "Webb, Fht/t. Canar. t. 78 his.— A. Gray, Man. 

 (ed. 2) 166.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 174.— Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, iii. 398. — F. Muell. PI. Vict. 



t. 29. — Hook. p. and Thoms. Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ii. 179.— KuRZ, For. FL Brit. Burm. ii. 3.— 

 Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 2. — Stev. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 3, xii. 375. — Willk. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. 

 ii. 329,— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 6. — 

 V^ALP. Pep. ii. 453 ; Ann. ii. 733. 



