2 CAPRIFOLIACH. [ Viburnum. 
2- or 3-celled, with a single pendulous ovule in each cell; stigmas 
3, rarely 4, sessile or on a very short style, free or united. Berr 
1 ed.—Small trees or shrubs, with simple or palmately-lobed 
leaves. Flowers small, in terminal cymes, umbels or panicles. 
Leaves more or less stellately pubescent ; cymes terminal . V. feetidum, 
Leaves glabrous ; cymes usually on axillary short branchlets, - V. lutescens, 
1. V. feetidum, Wall.—A shrub, 6-10 ft. high, the young 
shoots covered with a stellate scurfy pubescence ; leaves elliptically 
oblong to oblong, cuneate at the 3-nerved base, on a rather short 
stellately pubescent petiole, blunt, acute or acuminate, coarsely sin- 
uate-toothed, serrate or sometimes quite entire, 1-4 in. long, stel- 
lately pubescent above along the midrib and beneath all over, more 
or less seurfy along the midrib and in the nerve-axils ; flowers small, 
bracteoled, forming a compound, umbelled, densely tawny-stellate 
and somewhat scurfy-pubescent cyme on a 1-2 in. long terminal 
uncle, nude or involucred with 1-4 small bract-like floral-leaves ; 
calyx-lobes broadly ovate; corolla glabrous, rotate, with a short 
tube; style short, broadly conical; ovary glabrous; berries com- 
pressed-ovate, acute, the size of a pepper-kernel, glossy. 
Var. 2, premnacea, H.f. and Th.: cymes involucred with 3 to 
4 small leaflets ; leaves, ete., as in the normal form. 
Var. 3, grandifolia: all parts more robust and more densely 
stellate-pubescent ; leaves about 4 in. long, acuminate, 6-7-nerved 
on each side, the lower nerves not meeting at the base [in var. 1 
and 2 the leaves are (besides the 3-nerved base) only 2-3-nerved on 
each side]. 
Has.—Var. 1: Ava hills; var. 3: Burma, probably Ava.—Fr. Nov. 
2. V. lutescens, Bl.—An evergreen shrub, 6 to 10 ft, high, the 
young shoots covered with a short tawny-stellate and scurfy pubes- 
cence ; leaves from oblong to elliptical, on a stellate scurfy-pubes- 
i i acute or shortly acuminate, 
copiously and coarsely serrate-toothed, nearly chartaceous, 4-7 in. 
long, glabrous, on each side 7 -8-nerved, without basal nerves, the 
nerves beneath usually a little scurfy ; flowers small, without bract- 
lets, white, forming an umbelled, seurfy, stellate-pubescent, pedun- 
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concave; corolla glabrous or nearly so, rotate; stamens short : 
tries about 2 or 4 lines long, broadl ovate, mucronate, red, 
resembling those of the preceding species ; pyrene compressed, with 
3 slight furrows, 
Var. 1, Blumei (V. lutescens, Bi.) : berries elliptically oblong, 
nearly 4 lin. long. 
