362 LX. CAPRIFOLIACEvE [Viburnum 



young shoots, inflorescence and 1. beneath stellately pubescent, 1, membranous, ovate, 

 acuminate, base rounded or cordate, sharply serrate, blade 3-5, pet. J-| in. long, sec. n. 

 6-8 pair, oblique, 3-4 pair basal, prominent beneath, as well as the obliquely transverse 

 veins. Fl. -white, appearing with or before the leaves, crowded in terminal sessile com- 

 pound umbels, corolla rotate. Drupes J. in. long, in lax spreading urnbels, peduncles 

 and pedicels having lengthened out. Seed flat with incurved edges. Album, ruminate, 

 the intruded testa full of red resinous glands. 6. V. ColebrooManum, Wall. Sikkim 

 Terai and outer hills, ascending to 4,000 ft. Assam (Mala). Khasi hills. Manipur. 

 Amber mines, Upper Burma. L. elliptic-oblong, crenate-serrate, nearly glabrous, 

 blade 6-8, pet. 4-1 in. long. Compound umbels pedunculate, axillary, fl. white, calyx 

 glabrous, drupe jt in. red. 



(6) Corolla short, 1. coriaceous. 



7. V. punctatum, Ham. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 217. — Syn. V. acuminatum, 

 Wall.; Wight Ic. t. 1021. 



An evergreen shrub, wholly glabrous, branches stout. L. shining, elliptic, 

 almost entire, acuminate, narrowed into petiole h in. long, on the underside 

 clothed with minute orbicular multicellular, peltate scales. Compound umbels 

 terminal. Drupe J- in. long, seed grooved, 2 grooves on the dorsal, 3 on the 

 ventral face. 



Outer Himalaya from Kumaon to Sikkim, ascending to 5,000 ft. Western Ghats 

 from Kanara southwards. Nilgiris. Anamalai. Palni and Shevaroy hills. Fl. Aug.— 

 Oct, 8. V. fcetidum, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 61. ; Kurz F. Fl. ii. 2. Khasi hills. Assam. 

 Manipur. Hills of Upper Burma. Yunnan. Branchlets, petioles and inflorescence 

 clothed with stellate hairs, 1. rhomboid-lanceolate, glabrous above, pubescent on nerves 

 beneath, repand-tootbed, blade 1—4, petiole J-J in. long, sec. n. 3-4 pair, prominent, the 

 lowest pair basal. Fl. small, white, in compound pedunculate umbels, bracts numerous, 

 hairy, calyx-tube glabrous. 



(c) Corolla tubular, lobes short, erect. 



9. V. coriaceum, Bluine. — Syn. V. capitellatum, W. & A. : Wight Ic. t. 

 1022. 



A shrub or small tree, wood white, hard, close-grained, youngest shoots and 

 nodes slightly hairy. L. coriaceous, glabrous^ usually quite entire, blade 5-9, 

 petiole 1 in. long. Inflorescence pedunculate, calyx glabrous, corolla white, 

 tubular, glabrous or pubescent, anthers red. Fr. \ in. long, black, succulent. 



Himalaya 4-8,O0O"ft., from the Sutlej eastwards. Khasi hills. Lower Burma: hills 

 between Sitang and Salween 3—4,000 ft. Upper : hills east of Bhamo 6-7,000 ft. 

 Nilgiris, Palnis. Fl. March- Aug. Oil extracted from the seeds in Nepal and Sikkim. 

 — Ceylon, China. V. hebanthum, Wight & Am. ; Gamble Ind. Timb. ed. ii. 395, 

 Nilgiris and other hills on the west side of the Peninsula, differs by the densely 

 tomentose corolla, while in the Himalayan and eastern specimens the corolla is 

 glabrous. All specimens from the Western Peninsula have larger fruit, up to J in. 

 long. Until further characters are discovered to separate the Western from the 

 Eastern species, it will be convenient to class both under V. coriaceum. Beddome, 

 Manual 124, says the corolla of V. hebanthum is pubescent or glabrous. 



B. Seed concave, endocarp deeply intruded, transverse section half moon-shaped. 



(a) Fl. appearing with or after the 1., generally in 3-fld. cymes, arranged in 

 a terminal thyrsus. 



10. V. odoratissimum, Ker in Botanical Register, t. 456. 



A shrub or small tree, 1. coriaceous, glabrous, entire or distantly and slightly 

 dentate, obtuse or shortly acuminate, blade 3-7, narrowed into petiole k in. 

 long, sec. n. distant, 6-8 pair. Fl. white, scented, yellow when fading, nearly 

 sessile in 3-fld cymes, arranged in a pedunculate pyramidal glabrous thyrsus. 

 Calyx not constricted beyond ovary, free part short with 5 triangular teeth, 

 corolla glabrous, campanulate. Fr. ^-J- in. long, seed concave, section half 

 moon-shaped, albumen uniform. 



Assam, Khasi hills. Upper Burma, near Serpentine Mines. Mahabaleshwar (D.B. 

 Oct. 1881). FL, North-East in April and May, at Mahabl. in Oct. China, Japan. 



