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A. Stamens at least more than 10, 
Calyx more or less coherent with the 2 to 5-celled ovary; leaves 
alternate . 2.2.2.0. 02.2 ee ee ee ee eee eee eee eee eee STYRACEZE, 258 
B. Stamens not more than twice as many as the petals, when of just the number alternate. 
Ovaries 2 or more, separate; stamens united with each other and 
with a large and thick stigma common to the 2 ovaries.......ASCLEPIADE&, 263 
Ovary only 1 and compound. 
Stamens distinct and fewer than the 4 petals ..........2......2-. OLEACE, 258 
Stamens just as many or twice as many as the petals............ ERICACE®, 253 
APETALOUS FORMS IN GAMOPETALOUS ORDERS, 
Shrubs or trees; fruit a 1-celled and 1-seeded samara or a drupe...... OLEACEX, 258 
CAPRIFOLIACER. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 
Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no (genuine) stipules, 
calyx-tube coherent with the 2 to 5-celled ovary, stamens as many as 
lobes of tubular or rotate corolla and inserted on its tube, and fruit a1 
to several-seeded berry, drupe, or pod.—Ours are all shrubs. 
*Corolla rotate or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-lobed: stigmas 3 to 5, sessile or 
nearly so: flowers terminal and in broad compound cymes. 
1. Sambucus. Fruit berry-like, containing 3 small seed-like nutlets: leaves pin- 
nate. 
2. Viburnum. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe with a compressed stone: leaves 
simple. 
**Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped: style slender and stigma 
capitate. 
3. Symphoricarpos. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped reg- 
ular corolla: berry 4-celled but only 2-seeded, 2 cells being sterile. 
4. Lonicera, Stamens5, as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irreg- 
ular corolla: berry several-seeded, all the 2 or 3 cells fertile. 
1. SAMBUCUS Tourn. (ELpDER.) 
Sh abby plants, with pinnate leaves, serrate-pointed leaflets, numer- 
ous small and white flowers in compound cymes, minute or obsolete 
¢alyx-lobes, open urn-shaped corolla with broadly spreading 5-cleft 
limb, 5 stamens, 3 stigmas, and fruit a berry-like juicy drupe containing 
3 small seed-like nutlets. 
1. S. Canadensis L. Suffrutescent, 15 to 30 dm. high, glabrous except some fine 
pubescence on midrib and veins of leaves beneath: leaflets (5 to 11) mostly 7, ovate- 
oval to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the lower not rarely bifid or with a lateral 
lobe: fruit dark-purple, becoming black.—Moist grounds throughout Texas. 
2. S. Mexicana Presl. Arborescent, with trunks sometimes 15 em. in diameter: 
leaves and young shoots pubescent (sometimes slightly so, sometimes cinereous or 
tomentulose-canescent): leatlets 5 to 9, thickish, ovate to narrowly oblong, the lower 
ones rarely 3-parted.—From the valley of the Nueces, westward across the continent 
along the Mexican border, 
