Leycesteria.] XLIV. CAPKIFOLIACE^. 257 



■with their broad base. Bracts foliaceous, more or less purple, sessile, 

 ovate-lanceolate, commonly 6 under each whorl, the two outer ones 1-1 J 

 in. long, generally connate at the base. Corolla white, with a tinge of 

 purple. Berry dark-purple, approaching to black, as large as a small 

 gooseberry, crowned with the persistent calyx, and covered with short 

 glandular hairs. 



Not uncommon in shady forests of the Himalaya between 5000 and 10,000 ft. 

 Sutlej to Sikkim. Kaaia hills. Hardy in England. 



3. ABELIA, Brown. 



Small shrubs, with bracteate flowers. Calyx -tube angular, limb 

 5-cleft, lobes foliaceous. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens 4. Ovary 

 3-ceUed, 2 cells with several abortive ovules, the third with one perfect 

 ovule. Berry coriaceous, 1 -seeded. 



1. A. triflora, E. Brown in Wall. PI. As. rar. t. 15. — Vern. Add, 

 pakhtdwar, trans-Indus ; Gheta bilta, Jhelam ; Ban hakhuru, salanlcer, 

 Chenab ; Dalung, hut, sdi, Eavi ; ^bang, matzbang, peni, Sutlej ; Munri, 

 gogatti, Kamaon. 



A shrub, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, pale beneath, hairy along edges 

 and midrib ; petioles united by their broad bases. Mowers in dense ter- 

 minal bracteate heads ; bracts foliaceous, the upper sessile. Flowers 3 

 together on shdrt peduncles, the middle sessile, the two lateral short- 

 pediceUate, aU supported at the base of the calyx by linear-lanceolate 

 bractlets. Calyx hairy, 5-ribbed ; lobes linear, ciliate, with a prominent 

 midrib, ^-1 in. long at the time the fruit ripens. GoroUa white, tinged 

 with pink, scented. 



Abundant in the North-West Himalaya between 4000 and 10,000 ft. ; also 

 on the Safedkoh and Suliman range. Fl. June-Aug. Is browsed by goats. 

 Hardy in England. 



4. VIBUENUM, Linn. 

 Shrubs or trees with simple leaves. Flowers white or pink, in terminal 

 or axillary corymbs or panicles. Calyx-limb 5-toothed ; coroUa 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5. Ovary 1-3-celled ; style conical, trifid, or stigmas 3, sessUe ; 

 one pendulous ovule in each cell. Drupe dry or fleshy ; endocarp crus- 

 Liceous, 1-seeded, 1-ceUed, or spuriously 2- or 3-ceUed by the endocarp 

 projecting into the cavity. 



A large genus with some species widely spread in Europe, wild, and culti- 

 vated as ornamental shrubs. V. Opulus, the Guelder Rose, with large outer 

 sterile flowers, a native of Europe, Siberia, and North America ; and V. Tinus 

 of the western Mediterranean region, remarkable because its showy flowers 

 stand the cold of average winters in England, and are destroyed only in very 

 severe seasons. Of the sixteen Indian species described by Hooker and Thomson 

 in the Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 174, it will suflace to enumerate seven, the most 

 common in the North-West Himalaya. 

 Leaves membranous, deciduous ; drupe 1-oelled. 



Corolla short-campanulate ; leaves witli dense grey tomen- 



tum beneath ^- V- eotinifolium. 



Corolla rotate ; leaves glabrous or pubescent . . 2. V. stellulatum. 



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