Abelia] 



LX. CAPRIFOLIACE.E 



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persistent, .',— 1 in. long at the time 

 the seed ripens. Ovary 3-celled, 

 fruit coriaceous indehisceut 1-seeded. 



N.-W. Himalaya, Kashmir to Kumaon 



-j-ln.i k >i ifi . ■ -1 1 J.- tl \ .iii limestone; also 

 Trans-Indus. PI. May- Aug. 



4. VIBURNUM, Linn. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 3. 



Alalia triflora. 



Shrubs or trees, wood close-grained, 

 leaves simple, when bruised smell 

 often disagreeable. Fl. white or pink, 

 pentamerous, regular, in a compound 

 umbel, thyrsus or corymb; the outer 

 il. sometimes sterile, larger and 

 zygomorphic i 1'. D/inliis. L.. The 

 Guelder Rose of Europe. Siberia and 

 North America . Stamens 5. ovary 

 1 -3-celled, one peudulous ovule in 

 each cell. Drupe dry or flesh}-, endocarp crustaceous, 1-seeded, seed flat, or 

 concave by the endocarp projecting into the cavity. Species about 100, a 

 few in Europe ami the Mediterranean region, the majority in the temperate 

 and subtropical regions of Eastern Asia and North America. Of the 1"> 

 species here described, 4 are found both in the Western and Eastern region. 

 Two of these, I', coriaceum and erubescens, extend from Ceylon to China, 

 V. odoratissimum is found in China, while )'. punctatum is limited to 

 India. 



A. See 1 Hat, often with shallow grooves. Fl. in compound umbels. 



(a) Corolla short, rotate, funnel-shaped, or campanula te. 1. deciduous, 

 generally membranous. 



1. V. cotinifolium, Don; Wight 111. t. L21 ; CollettSimla Fl. 221. fig. 68. 

 Vern. Banguch, Ilaz. ; Bhutnoi, Jauns. : Battonda, Gwia, Grarhwal, Kumaon. 



A large deciduous shrub, young shoots and underside of 1. woolly, with grej 

 stellate tomentum, L. rugose, ovate, elliptic or orbicular, obtuse, crenulateoi 

 nearly entire, base rounded or nearly c irdate. blade '_'-•">. pet. stout. [-.', in. long. 

 Corolla white, tinged with pink, tube !, in. long, turbinate.fr. red, J— J in. long, 

 edible. 



Baluchistan, in the Juniper tracts. Kuram valley, common, 7 9,000 ft. N. W. 



Himalaya above 1,000 ft., chiefly on sunny slopes. Bhutan 8,500 10, ft. Fl.A] 



June. 'J. V. corylifolium, Hook. f. & Thorns. Khasi hills. A thin and straggling 

 shrnh, branchlets, petioles and underside of 1. denselj clothed with long sof I hairs. 

 Corolla white, almost rotate. Drupe bright red, 1 in. long. 



3. V. stellulatum, Wall. PI. As. Rar. t. L69.— Syn. F.involucratum, Wall. 

 Vern. Richi, Richhoi, Ensi, X. W. Him. 



A shrub, branches long, bark dark grey. Branchlets, petioles and inflor- 

 escence with brown stellate pubescence, 1.. glabrous above, sparingly atoll 

 pubescent beneath, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, w it h large distant 

 teeth, blade 3 5, pet. slender, \ I in. long. PI: small, very numerous, compound 

 umbels large, sessile or shortly pedunculate, calyx hirsute, corolla white, 

 pubescent, rotate. Drupe bright red. l , in. long. 



Himalaya, Kashmir to Sikkim, above 6,000 ft. Fl. April July. I. V. Grittithianum. 

 C. B. Clarke. Upper Burma (Griffith). Branchlets, petioles and inflorescence densely 

 clothed » it li soft stellate hairs, leaves on both sides stellate-hairy, elliptic to oboi it< 

 sharply serrate, compound umbels pedunculate, peduncles 1 2 in. long, i arous. 



5. v. cordifolium. Wall. Himalaya, Kumaon to Bhutan 8 12,000 ft. A. deciduous 



