502 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen 3-5-celled ; disk rather thick or ; style short, 3-5-lobed. 

 Ovules in cells solitary, descending; micropyle introrsely superior. 

 Fruit drupaceous; pyrenes 3-5, cartilaginous. Seeds in pyrenes 

 solitary oblong ; coat thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo subequal to 

 albumen, rather fleshy ; cotyledons ovoid ; radicle conical superior. — 

 Trees, shrubs or perennial herbs ; branches terete ; medulla copious ; 

 leaves opposite or rarely 3-nate, imparipinnate; foHoles incised, serrate 

 or laciniate ; stipules at base of petiole glanduliform or minutely 

 foliose; stipels sometimes to folioles yarious; flowers in dense 

 compound cymiferous corymbs or racemes; pedicels articulate and 

 bracteolate. (^Almost all temp, and mount, trop. reg.) — See p. 359. 



202. Viburnum T.^ — Flowers (nearly of Samhiicus) hermaphrodite 

 or polygamous; lobes of rotate, campanulate or tubular corolla 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 5 ; ^ anthers introrse or extrorse. Germen 

 1 -celled or more rarely 2, 3-celled; style short conical; lobes stig- 

 matose 2, 3, minute. Ovules &c. of Samhtcus. Fruit drupaceous ; 

 flesh sometimes scanty and coriaceous ; putamen hard or parchment- 

 like. Seed oftener 1, descending; albumen fleshy, sometimes 

 ruminate, occasionally sulcate or with inflexed margins ; embryo 

 minute. — Trees and shrubs ; leaves opposite or rarely 3-nate, petio- 

 late, entire, dentate or serrate ; stipules large, small or ; flowers ^ 

 in terminal and axillary compound cymiferous corymbs; pedicels 

 articulate, 1, 2-bracteolate.* {Teinp.and frigid reg. of north, hemisph,. 

 And, America, Antilles, Madagascar,^) 



i Inst. 607, t. 367.— L. Ge}7. n. 370.— J. Gen. « Spec. " about 80." Pall. FL Hoss. i. 38, t. 



21i.—GjEB.Tii.Fruct.i. \'63.—J)G.Frodr.iv. 323. 38 {Lonice)a).~3 acq. FL Austr. t. 341 ; Hort. 



— Spach, Suit, d Biiffon, viii. 306.— Endl. Gen. Vi-dob. i. t. 36.— Wight, Icon. t. 1021-1024. — 



n. 3340.— H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 366.— B. H. Ge)i. Wall. Fl. As. Ear. t. 61, 134, 169.— Sieb. et 



ii. 3, n. 3.— CErst. Vid. Medd. Nat. For. Kjob. Zucc. Fl. Jap. t. 37, 38.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.- 



(1860) 1.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. Z.—Opulus T. Ind. 315.— A.Gkay, Ma/i. (ed. 2) 167,— C-los, C. 



I/st. 607, t. 37Q. — TinusT. I.e. t. 377.— Spach, Gay Fl. Chil. iii. 173.— Miq, FL Ind.-Bat. ii. 



Suit, a Buffon, viii. Zlo. —Mlcrotinus GErst. Lc. 119 ; Suppl. 213, 537.— Bexth. FL Rough. 442. 



293, t. 6, fig. 7-lQ.—Solenotinus (Erst. /. c. 294, — Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 217.— Fiu et Sav. Enum. 



i. 6, fig. 1-4. — Orcitiotimis CErst. Lc. 281, t. 6, Fl. Jap. i. 199. — Hook. f. and Thoms. Journ. 



fig. 11-25. Linn. Soc. ii. 174.— Hassk. Retzia., i. 37. — KcRZ, 



2 V.fmtente " 2-seriate " (B. H.). For. FL Brit. Burm. ii. 1. — Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 3. 



3 Small, white, yellowish or partly pink or — Willk. et Lang. Frodr. FL Bisp. ii. 330.— 

 red ; with pleasant or often foetid odour. Reichb. Ic. FL Ger. i. 1170, 1171.— Gr. et Gdr. 



4 Sect. 6 (ex (Erst.) : 1, Opulus ; 2, Euvihur- Fl. de Fr. ii. l.—Bot. Rig. t. 376, 457 ; (1847) t. 

 num; 3, Tinus ; ^, Microtinus ; 5, Oreinottnus ; i3,ol.—Bot. Mag. t. 28,2082, 22S1, 6112,6215.— 

 6, Solenotinm. Walp. Rep. ii. 450; vi. 7 ; Ann. i. 365 ; v. 96. 



