602 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen 3-6-celled ; disk rather thick or ; style short, 3-6-lobed. 

 Ovules in cells solitary, descending; micropyle introrsely superior. 

 Fruit drupaceous; pyrenes 3-5, cartilaginous. Seeds in pyrenes 

 solitary oblong ; coat thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo subequal to 

 albumen, rather fleshy ; cotyledons ovoid ; radicle conical superior. — 

 Trees, shrubs or perennial herbs ; branches terete ; medulla copious ; 

 leaves opposite or rarely 3-nate, imparipinnate; folioles incised, serrate 

 or laciniate; stipules at base of petiole glanduliform or minutely 

 foliose; stipels sometimes to folioles various; flowers in dense 

 compound cymiferous corymbs or racemes; pedicels articulate and 

 bracteolate. (^Almost all temp, and mount, trop. reg.) — See p. 359. 



202. Viburniun T. '^Flowers (nearly of Sambucus) hermaphrodite 

 or polygamous;' lobes of rotate, campanulate or tubular corolla 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 5 ; ^ anthers introrse or extrorse. Germen 

 1 -celled or more rarely 2, 3-celled; style short conical; lobes stig- 

 matose 2, 3, minute. Ovules &c. of Sambucus. Fruit drupaceous ; 

 flesh soinetimes scanty and coriaceous ; putamen hard or parchment- 

 like. Seed oftener 1, descending ; albumen fleshy, sometimes 

 ruminate, occasionally sulcate or with inflexed margins ; embryo 

 minute. — Trees and shrubs ; leaves opposite or rarely 3-nate, petio- 

 late, entire, dentate or serrate ; stipules large, small or ; flowers ' 

 in terminal and axillary compound cymiferous corymbs; pedicels 

 ai:ticulate, 1, 2-bracteolate.* {Temp, and frigid reg. of north, hemisph., 

 And. America, Antilles, Madagascar.^) 



' Inst. 607, t. 367. — L. Gen. n. 370.— J. Gen. » Spec. " about 80." Paix. FL Sots. i. S8, t. 



Hi.— Gmrth. Fruct. i.lS3:— DC. Prodr. iv. 323. 38 (Lonieera).— J Aca. Fl. Austr. t. 3i\ ; Eart. 



— Spach, Suit, d Biiffon, viii. 306.— Ekbl. Gen. Vindoh. i. t. 36.— Wight, Icon. t. 1021-1024.— 



n. 3340.— H.BN.^rfansoniffi.i. 366.— B.H. Gct. Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 61, 134, 169.— Sieb. et 



ii. 3, n. 3.— CErst. Yid. Mcdd. Nat. For. Ejob. Zncc. M. Jap. t. 37, 38.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.- 



(1860) 1.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 3.—0pulus T. Ind. 315.— A. Gray, JfaH. (ed. 2) 167.— Clos, C. 



Inst. 607, t. 376.— 7'«!««T. l.c.i. 377.— Spach, Gay Fl. GUI. iii. 173.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat.\\. 



Suit, a Buffon, viii. 315. — Microtinus (Erst. I. c. 119 ; Suppl. 213, 537. — Bexth. Fl. Songk. 442. 



293, t. 6, fig. 7-10.— Selenotin us (Erst. I. e. 294, — Bedd. Fl. Spiv. t. 217.— Fr. et Sav. Fnum. 



t. 6, fig. 1-4. — Orcinotimis (Erst. I.e. 281, t. 6, Pi. Jap. i. 199. — Hook. f. and Thoms. Journ. 



fig. 11-25. Linn. Son. ii. 174.— Hassk. Retzia, i. 37. — KoKZ, 



» F. fcetente " 2-seriate " (B. H.). For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 1.— Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 3. 



3 Small, white, yellowish or partly pink or — Willk. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Bisp. ii. 330. — 



red ; with pleasant or often foetid odour. Eeichb. Io. PI. Ger. 1. 1170, 1171. — Gb,. et Gdb. 



« Sect. 6 (ex (Erst.) : 1, Opulus ; 2, Euvihur- Fl. de Fr. ii. l.—Bot. Peg. t. 376, 457 ; (1847) t. 



niitn; 3, Tinus ; i, Microtinus ; 5, Oreinotinus ; 43,51.— £o<. jWsj.t. 38,2082,2281,6172,6215.— 



6, Solmotinus. Walp. Rep. ii. 460 ; vi. 7 ; Ann. i. 365 ; T. 96. 



