288 Caprifoliacece. [Viburnum. 



Montane zone, 4000-7000 ft., rather rare. Hantane ; Dimbula ; 

 Ambagamuwa ; Nuwara Eliya. Fl. March, April; green, disk yellow. 



Also in Cachar and the Nilgiris. 



The leaves dry black. C. P. 2440 has leaves with larger petioles and 

 a broader fruit. 



LXVL— CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



Shrubs or small trees, 1. opp., without stip., fl. regular, bi- 

 sexual, in paniculate cymes ; cal.-tube adnate to ov., limb 

 small, segm. 5 ; cor. tubular-campanulate, lobes 5, equal ; 

 stam. 5, inserted on cor.-tube ; ov. inferior, 1-3-celled, with a 

 single ovule in each cell, style very short, stigma large, slightly 

 3-lobed; fruit a drupe, with a thin hard endocarp, 1 -seeded; 

 seed compressed, embryo very small in fleshy endosperm. 



Chiefly distinguished from Rubiacece by the absence of stipules. Both 

 our species occur only in the higher mountain region. 



VIBURNUM, L. 



For characters, see Order. — Sp. 80; 17 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. entire ; fruit black 1. V. CORIACEUM. 



L. serrate ; fruit red 2. V. ERUBESCENS. 



1. V. coriaceum, Bl. Bijd., 656 (1825). 



V. zeylanicum, Gardn. ex Hk. f. and Th. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 179. 

 V. Jiebanthum, Thw. Enum. 136 (non W. and A.). C. P. 39. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 5. 



A large shrub, young parts glandular-pilose ; 1. 4-5 in. ; 

 oval-lanceolate, subacute at base, shortly acuminate, acute at 

 apex, entire, somewhat undulate, glabrous above and very 

 nearly so beneath ; rather thick, lat. veins about 6 on each 

 side, oblique, prominent beneath, petiole f-i in., channelled 

 above ; fl. sessile, in threes at ends of branches of terminal, 

 stalked, umbellate-corymbose cymes, finely glandular-pubes- 

 cent ; cal.-limb very short, segm. very small ; cor. nearly 

 glabrous, lobes very small, acute, spreading ; stam. slightly 

 exserted ; fruit \ in., oblong-ovoid, compressed, tipped with 

 small cal.-limb, glabrous, black, endocarp 2-grooved on dorsal, 

 1 -grooved on ventral surface. 



Var. (3, capitellata, Clarke: V. cafiitellata, Wight, Ic. t. 1022. 

 Fruit rather smaller and more compressed. 



