106 PENTANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Viburnum. 



stem, densely covered with fine, close, bristly hairs, all directed 

 towards the point ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, the lower ones 

 ovate, all coarsely serrated, and sometimes deeply notched, sin- 

 gle-ribbed, veiny ; the odd one largest. Footstalks somewhat 

 dilated at the lower part, often hairy. Umbels rather small and 

 dense, bristly, as well as their linear, general and partial, brae- 

 teas. Teeth of the calyx very unequal. Fl. reddish, more or 

 less radiant, the outermost petal with equal lobes, the 2 next 

 with extremely unequal ones. Seeds nearly orbicular ; exter- 

 nally bristly ; the disk a little convex, marked with 4 brown 

 longitudinal lines j the border pale, tumid, wrinkled sufficiently 

 to determine the generic character, thougli not so elegantly as 

 in the preceding, and beset with direct bristles ; the inside of 

 each seed, with the border, quite smooth, with 2 close, parallel, 

 brown lines, in the middle. 



FENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



173. VIBURNUM. Guelder-rose. 



Linn.GenA47. Juss.2l3. Fl.Br.334. Tourn.t.377. Lam,t.2\\. 



Gcertn. t. 27. 

 Opulus. Tourn. t. 376. 



Nat. Oi'd. DumoscE. Linn. 43. Caprifolia. Juss. 58. Re- 

 quires revision. N. 174 the same. 



Cal. superior, minute, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep segments, per- 

 manent. Cor. of 1 petal, shortly funnel-shaped, with 5 

 obtuse, spreading, not quite equal, mai'ginal lobes. Fi- 

 lam. 5, awl-shaped, spreading, about the length of the 

 corolla, inserted mto its tube, alternate with the segments. 

 Anth. roundish. Germ, inferior, roundish, a little com- 

 pressed. Style none. Stigmas 3, sessile, obtuse. Berry 

 roundish, either globular or compressed, of 1 cell. Seed 

 solitary, hard, roundish, compressed. 



Shrubs, with opposite, stalked, simple, smooth or downy, 

 leaves, red in autumn. Fl. white or reddish, numerous, 

 in terminal cymes. Berries red, or purplish-black, not 

 eatable. 



