VIBURNUM PUNCTATUM. (Nat. order Caprifoliacese.) 



VIBURNUM. Linn. — GEKT. CHAR. Calyx with a border of 5 small teeth, corol rotate or shortly tubular regular. Stamens 5, ovary 1-celled 

 or very rarely 2-3 celled with 1 pendulous ovule in each. Stigmas 3 or rarely 2 sessile, berry 1-seedod. Small trees or erect shrubs, leaves entire or 

 palmately lobed, flowers in terminal eymes or panicles, 



V IBURNUM PUNCTATUM. (Ham.) A middling sized or small tree, youug branches, petioles, and peduncles dotted 

 with small rusty-colored scales, leaves coriaceous elliptic or elliptico- lanceolate acuminate, quite entire, the margin slightly recurved, 

 glabrous, above shining, beneath covered with minute rusty-colored dots or in age only puncteolate, 4-4J inches long by 1 \-2 broad, 

 petioles about \ inch long, corymbs terminal large trichotomous, subumbellate, the branches angled, calyx scale-dotted, corol rotate or 

 scarcely campanulate dotted with scales, berry oval-oblong \ inch long compressed, endocarp bi-sulcate on both sides. Ham.in Don. 

 Prod. U2. V. acuminatum, Wall. ;—WA, Prod. p. 386. 



This small tree is very common in many of our subalpine and alpine jungles from no great elevation up to 6000 feet ; it is alto found 

 on the Himalayas and in Java. 



Analysis. 



1. Under surface of a leaf, showing the dot like scales. 



2. A flower bud. 



3. A full flower, showing calyx and corol dotted with scales. 



4. Corol removed and opened out, Bhowing the 5 stamens. 



5. The ovary and the 3 sessile stigmas. 



6. Anthers, front and back view. 



7. Ovary cut vertically, showing its single cell and solitary pendulous ovule. 



8. Bunch of fruit. (Drawn from fresh specimens.) 



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