FLORA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA 
VOLUME II 
Order LXXIII. CAPRIFOLI ACE/E. 
Shrubs (small trees or herbs). Leaves opposite, simple, no 
stipules. Inflorescence usually cymose. Flowers bisexual, regular 
(or irregular). Calyx adnate to ovary, lobes 5. Corolla superior, 
gamopetalous tubular or rotate, lobes 5 imbricate. Stamens 5 
(or 4) insert on corolla-tube, alternate with the lobes; filaments 
filiform. Ovary inferior 2- to 6-(rarely 1-)celled; ovules solitary 
or many. Style slender. Stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe (or 
berry or dry) 1- to many-celled. Seeds one (or many). Species 
about 230, mostly in Northern Hemisphere, absent from Africa. 
[Gamble and King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxxii. (2), 112.) 
VIBURNUM, Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite entire or serrate. 
Flowers in umbellate terminal corymbs. Calyx-tube turbinate or 
cylindric; limb 5-toothed persistent. Corolla white, pink or 
yellowish, campanulate or tubular. Stamens exsert. Ovary 1- to 
3-celled; ovules solitary. Style short, conic. Drupe 1, rarely 2- to 
3-celled. Seed oblong. Species 80 to 90, Palaearctic, West Indies, 
S. America, Madagascar, a few descending to Malaya. 
Corolla rotate. 
Leaves entire nearly glabrous; stamens short . (1) V. sambucinum 
Stamens very long.(2) V. longistamineum 
Leaves very hairy beneath . . . (3) V. villosum 
Corolla tubular; leaves entire . . . . (4) V. Becearii 
Leaves serrate; cymes often axillary . . (5) V. lutescens 
(1) V. sambucinum Bl. Bijdr. 656; Clarke, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
iii. 5 ; King, l.c. 113. 
Big shrub about 15 to 30 ft. tall; young parts pubescent. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, elliptic oblong-lanceolate abruptly acuminate, 
base cuneate, glabrous except a few tufts of hairs beneath; nerves 
4 to 6 pairs; 5 to 8 in. long, 2 to 4*5 in. wide; petioles -75 to 1*5 in. 
long, pilose or glabrous. Corymbs umbellate, 2*5 to 5 in. across, 
many-branched. Flowers cream white, -x in. across. Calyx-tube 
cylindric, lobes 5, acute. Corolla rotate, lobes 5, round imbricate. 
FI m.p , 2. b 
