. The natural history of plants. Botany. Tig. 387. Fruit (f). Fig. 389. Seed (^). Fig. 388. Long. sect, of fruit. are in clusters or corymbs of cymes which may become uniparous, especially near the extremity; * they are articulate and accompanied with bracteoles. About ten ^ species are enumerated. Viburnum closely resembles the Elders. The lobes of the calyx are more or less developed, sometimes quincuncial; the corolla is variable in form, imbricate j and the ovary is 1-3-celled, in most cases only one being fertile and uniovulate. The fruit is drupaceous, often little fleshy, mostly monospe
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Tig. 387. Fruit (f). Fig. 389. Seed (^). Fig. 388. Long. sect, of fruit. are in clusters or corymbs of cymes which may become uniparous, especially near the extremity; * they are articulate and accompanied with bracteoles. About ten ^ species are enumerated. Viburnum closely resembles the Elders. The lobes of the calyx are more or less developed, sometimes quincuncial; the corolla is variable in form, imbricate j and the ovary is 1-3-celled, in most cases only one being fertile and uniovulate. The fruit is drupaceous, often little fleshy, mostly monospermous. The albumen of the seed is sometimes ruminate. They are trees and shrubs of the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere; they are also found in the Andean regions of both Americas, in the Antilles and Madagascar. The leaves are opposite or verticillate, simple, with small or no stipules. The inflorescence atnd other parts of their organization are ordinarily the same as in the Elders. > Small or moderate, wHte, yellowish or pink, often odorous. ' There also they may become unisexual. 'Eeichb. Icon. PI. Germ. t. 729-731.— Webb, Fhyt. Canar. t. 78 bis.—A. Gkay, Man. (ed. 2) 166.—C. Gay, M. Chil. iii. 174.—Benth. Fl. Austral, m. 398. —F. Muell. JPl. Viet. t. 29.—HooE. p. and Thoms. Joum. Zinn. See. ii. 179.—KuKZ, For. Ft. Brit. Burm. ii. 3.— Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. 2.—Stev. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xii. 375.—Willk. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. ii. 329.—Gken. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 6.— "Walp. Sep. ii. 453 ; Ann. ii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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