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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves stalked, entire, sharply toothed 
or crenate. Flowers small, regular, white or pink, crowded in 
terminal, compound cymes. Calyx-limb shortly toothed, obsolete 
only in V. coriaceum , persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tubular 
or rotate ; limb 5-lobed, lobes equal spreading, erect only in F. 
coriaceum. Stamens 5. Ovary 1 -celled ; style short, stigma small ; 
ovule solitary. Drupe glabrous, oblong or ovoid, usually 
flattened and grooved, 1 -seeded. 
Leaves entire or crenate. 
Leaves ovate or orbicular ; lower surface tomentose. 
Calyx-limb 5-toothed . . . . . . 1. V. cotinifolium. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Calyx-limb 
obsolete . . . . . . 3. V. coriaceum . 
Leaves sharply toothed. 
Flowers hardly £ in. long; Corolla rotate. Stamens ' 
in one series . . . . . . . 2. V. stellulatum 
Flowers § in. long. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens 
in two series . . . . . . . 4. V. fastens. 
1 . Viburnum cotinifolium, Bon ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 3. A shrub ; 
young shoots and cyme-branches stellately tomentose. Leaves 
