Viburnum

(vi-bürnum.) (Bot.) An extensive genus of Caprifoliaceæ, consisting of shrubs, natives of Europe, Asia, and North America, but not found in tropical regions. The leaves are opposite, and the flowers numerous, in large terminal cymes. Each flower has a minutely five-toothed calyx; a rotate or bell-shaped corolla, which is five-lobed at the edge; five stamens; two or three nearly se ile stigmas; and an ovary po e ing in the young state two or three cells, but becoming one-celled and one-seeded as it ripens into the berry. The Wayfaring-tree (V. lantana), the Snowball tree or Gueldres Rose (V. opulus), and the Common Laurestine (V. tin us), are very ornamental shrubs. [s. 937]