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ing the completion of the series, and in consideration of the liberality of 

 the Government of the Straits Settlements which has made feasible a 

 more rapid rate of publication, it has been arranged that Mr. J. S. 

 Gamble will henceforth, in the majority of the orders belonging to 

 Corolliflorse and Incompletes, work in collaboration with Sir George King ; 

 while certain orders will be worked out independently by botanical 

 friends, who have kindly promised their aid. 



Order LVIII. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



Small trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, rarely herbs. Leaves op- 

 posite, rarely alternate, simple, lobed or imparipinnate ; stipules usually 

 absent. Inflorescence various, usually cymose ; flowers hermaphrodite, re- 

 gular or irregular. Calyx adnate to the ovary ; lobes 5, superior, usually 

 imbricate, rarely valvate. Corolla superior, gamopetalous, tubular, 

 f unnel-shapel or rotate ; limb 5-fid, lobes imbricate. Stamens 5, rarely 4, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate with the lobes ; filaments filiform 

 or subulate ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-6-, rarely 1-celled ; style terminal, stigma capitate, undivided 

 or bifid, sometimes short and 3-lobed ; ovules sometimes solitary, pendu- 

 lous, sometimes many, biseriate, anatropous. Fruit a berry or drupe or 

 sometimes dry and indehiscent, many-celled, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds 

 single or many in each cell ; testa crustaceous or hard ; albumen fleshy, 

 copious ; embryo usually minute, ovoid or clavate, 2-fid, radicle smooth, 

 cotyledons ovate. — Distrtb. Genera 13, species 200 to 220 ; chiefly found 

 in the Northern Hemisphere more especially in temperate regions ; a 

 few in Australia and South America; none in tropical or Southern 

 Africa. 



Viburnum, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, rarely alternately verticillate, 

 simple, petiolate; entire, serrate or dentate, sometimes palmately lobed; 

 sometimes stellately pubescent, sometimes gland-dotted ; stipules usually 

 inconspicuous or absent, in a few cases very large. Floioers herma- 

 phrodite, in terminal or subterminal subumbellate corymbs, the branches 

 cymose or panicled ; bracts few, small ; bracteoles 1 to 2, usually very 

 small, generally quickly deciduous. Calyx-tube turbinate, cylindric or 

 clavate ; limb short, 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla white, pink or 

 yellowish; rotate, campanulate or tubular; lobes 5, equal, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla, alternate with the lobes; anthers 

 oblong, usually exserted ; filaments linear or subulate. Ovary 1-3- 

 celled; style short, conical, stigma small, obscurely 3-lobed; ovules 

 solitary in the cells, pendulous. Fruit a drupe 1- or rarely 2-3-celled, 

 1-seeded ; endocarp tough, papery or crustaceous. Seed oblong, com- 



