260 XLIV. CAPRIFOLIACE^. [Viburnum. 



7. V. punctatum, Ham. — Syn. V. acuminatum, Wall. ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1021. 



A shrub with stout branches, whoUy glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic, acuminate, 3-5 in. long ; ' margins revolute, beneath with numer- 

 ous fine round dots ; main lateral nerves 4-6 pair. Mowers small, in 

 large, terminal corymbs, with angular branches, and broad, ciliate bracts. 

 CoroUa rotate. Drupe \ in. long, 1-ceUed ; endocarp undulate on a cross- 

 section, not projecting into cavity. 



Outer Himalaya in Kamaon and Nepal, ascending to 5000 ft. Nilgiris, 

 pulneys, AnamaUays, Western Ghats, Canara. Fl. Jan.-March. 



5. SAMBUCUS, Linn. 



Large herbs, shrubs or trees, with large pith. Leaves pinnate. Flowers 

 small, in umbellate corymbs or panicles. Calyx - limb 3 - 5 - toothed. 

 Corolla rotate or campanulate, 3-5-cleft. Stamens 5. Ovary 3-5-oeILed ; 

 style short, 3-5-partite, or stigmas 3-5, sessile ; one pendulous ovule in 

 each cell. Drupe with 3-5 cartilaginous cells. Seed compressed, 

 embryo long. 



1. S. Ebulus, Linn. ; Hook. Stud. Fl. 174. Dwarf Elder.— Vem. 

 Richh has, muskkidra, ganhvla, Jhelam ; Gdndal, gwandish, siske, tdsar, 

 Chenab. 



Large herbaceous stems 3-6 ft. high, from a perennial root-stock, glab- 

 rous; leaflets 3-5 pair, shortly stalked, oblong-lanceolate, sharply and 

 closely serrate. Stipules foliaceous, often pinnate. Flowers in a large, 

 sessile or pedunculate, compact corymbose cyme 4-6 in. across. Corolla- 

 limb concave. 



Upper Chenab and Jhelam between 4000 and 11,000 ft. Europe, North 

 Africa, West Asia. Fl. April-July. Leaves fetid when bruised. 



Order XLV. RUBIACE-ffi. 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs, rarely climbers, with opposite or whorled leaves, 

 and inter- or intra-petiolar stipules, either free or connate with the petioles, 

 or forming a short sheath or ring round the stem within the petioles. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb entire or with as many teeth 

 lobes or divisions as lobes of the coroUa, rarely more or fewer. CoroUa 

 gamopetalous, inserted round the epigynous disc ; lobes 4, 5, or sometimes 

 more, rarely only 3, either imbricate (often contorted) or valvate in the 

 bud. Stamens as many as lobes of the corolla, alternating with them, 

 and inserted in the tube ; anthers versatile, with parallel cells opening 

 longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2- or more-celled, rarely 1-celled. Fruit 

 various. Seeds with a fleshy or homy albumen, rarely with little or no 

 albumen. — Gen. PI. ii. 7; Eoyle Til. 237; Wight HI. ii. 72 (Gin-' 

 chonaaem). 



Seeds numerous ; flowers numerous, in globose heads. 



Glabrous; corolla imbricate ; fruit a fleshy syncarpium . 1. Anthooephalus. 



