CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vou, LU. 
14. Viburnum rufidulum Raf, Southern 
Black Elaw. Pig. 3970. 
Viburniom rufiduliam Rat, Alsog. Am. 56, 1838. 
Viburnum prioifoliim var. ferruginewn T&G, Vi, 
Nv AL aig. 4. Not hy ferruginewm Bat 83s, 
Viburnum rufotomentosmm Small, Bull. ‘Torr, Club 
a3: 410, 1806, 
A small tree, becoming 20° high, Leaves 
elliptic to obovate, mostly obtuse at the apex, 
finely and sharply serrate or serrulate, narrowed 
or obtuse at the base, the veins brown-tomentose 
beneath; petioles 37-8 long, winged, brown- 
tomentose; cymes large, sessile, or very short- 
peduneled, the principal rays 3-5, mostly 4; flow- 
ers 37-34” broad; drupe oval, 5-7” long, blue 
with a bloom; seed nearly orbicular. 
Tn woods and thickets, New Jersey to Missouri, 
Kansas, Florida and ‘Texas. Ascends to 3soo ft, in 
Virginia. April-May. Fruit ripe Auge Sept. 
Viburnum obovatum Walt., admitted into our 
first edition as recorded from Virginia, is not defi- 
nitely known to range north of South Carolina, 
15. Viburnum LantanaI.. Way- 
faring Tree. Fig. 3971. 
Ciburnum Lantana L. Sp. Pl. 268. 1753. 
A shrub, or small tree, sometimes 
12 ft. high, widely branched, the 
winter-buds naked. Young twigs, 
buds and petioles densely stellate- 
tomentose. Leaves ovate to ovate- 
elliptic, serrulate, dark green and 
loosely stellate-pubescent or glabrous 
above, paler and more or less stel- 
late-tomentose beneath, 2-4’ long, 
rounded or acutish at the apex, sub- 
cordate at the base, the petioles stout 
and short; cymes — short-stalked, 
stellate-tomentose, densely many- 
flowered, the flowers all alike, 3-4” 
broad; drupe red, oval, 4-5” long, 
its stone grooved. 
Roadsides, escaped from cultivation 
in New England. Native of Europe and Asia, The naked winter-buds ally this species to V. 
alnifolium Marsh. May-July. 
3. TRIOSTEUM L. Sp. Pl. 176. 1753. 
Perennial herbs, with simple terete stems and opposite connate-perfoliate or sessile leaves 
narrowed below the middle. Flowers axillary, perfect, solitary or clustered, sessile, yellowish, 
green, or purplish, 2-bracted. Calyx-tube ovoid, its limb 5-lobed, the lobes clongated, per- 
sistent and sometimes. foliaccous in our species, Corolla-tube narrow or campanulate, gibbous 
at the base, the limb oblique. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube; filaments very short; 
anthers linear, included. Ovary 3-5-celled; ovules Tt in cach cavity; style filiform; stigma 
3-5-lobed. Drupe coriaceous, orange or red, enclosing 2-3 (rarely 4-5) I-seeded nutlets, 
Endosperm fleshy; embryo minute, [Greek, three-hbone, from the 3 bony nutlets.| 
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Six known species, the following of castern North America, two Japanese, one Wimalayan. 
Type species: Triostenm perfoliatim L. 
Leaves ovate or oval; flowers purplish or dull red. 
Leaves, or some of them, connate-perfoliate; fruit orange-yellow, 1. 7. perfoliatum, 
Leaves narrowed to a sessile base; fruit orange-red. 2. T. aurantiaciwn, 
Leaves lanceolate or oval-lanceolate; flowers yellowish. 3. Te angustifolinm. 
