SYNANTHY IN THE GENUS LONICERA. 471 
The two ovaries are, however, united with the bracteolar 
sheath in certain planes. The condition of affairs is best 
explained by means of the diagrammatic sketches in fig. 3. 
Fig. 2. 
Lonicera cerulea, L.—Lower portion of the inflorescence, showing the 
bracteolar sheath investing the two gynzxcea. 
Fig. 3, a, shows the two free ovaries surrounded by the brac- 
teolar sheath, to which, in their upper portion, they are 
| Fig. 3. 
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Liz 
Lonicera cerulea, L.—(a) Diagram of a transverse section through the upper 
portion of the ovaries ; (4) transverse section through the lower portion of 
the ovaries; (¢) diagram of a longitudinal section through the lower 
portion of the inflorescence in the plane of the bracts. 
not united. At a lower level, figs. 8, c, they are united in the 
median plane of the inflorescence with the sheath, but remain 
free laterally. The longitudinal section * in the plane of the 
* A similar diagram of Koehne’s (1891), fig. 57 ¢, is not quite correctly drawn, 
at least as regards the specimens which I have examined. 
