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Family Caprifoliaceae

I. Genus VIBURNUM, A. L. de Juss.

SMALL trees with ill-smelling wood, and tough, slender branches. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate, 2 to 4 inches long, with margined petioles. Flowers white, in broad terminal cymes. Fruit a blue, berry-like drupe with flat stone.