608 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
6. Houstonia wrightii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 202. 1882. 
TYPE Locauity: On the Limpio, western Texas. 
RanGeE: Western Texas to southern Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
New Mexico: Ramah; Coolidge; Kingston; Burro Mountains; Mogollon Moun- 
tains; Hanover Hills; Magdalena Mountains; Pinos Altos. Transition Zone. 
5. OLDENLANDIA L, 
Low erect annual with diffusely branched stems and narrow opposite leaves; flowers 
small, white, sessile in the forks of the branches and in the axils; calyx teeth triangular- 
subulate, about the length of the hypanthium; corolla 3 to 4mm. long, salverform, the 
tube slightly surpassing the calyx lobes; capsules quadrangular-hemispheric, at first 
somewhat turbinate; seeds moderately angled. 
1. Oldenlandia greenei A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 77. 1883. 
Tyre LocaLiry: Pinos Altos Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected by E. io 
Greene in 1880 (no. 149). 
Rance: Southern New Mexico and Arizona. 
We have seen no further specimens of this from New Mexico. 
135. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 
Shrubs, trees, woody vines, or rarely low herbs, with opposite, exstipulate, often 
perfoliate leaves and perfect flowers variously arranged in axillary pairs or in axillary 
or terminal cymes; hypanthium adnate to the 2 to 5-celled ovary; calyx of 4 or 5 
sepals; corolla rotate, tubular, or funnelform, sometimes bilabiate, the lobes 4 or 5, 
imbricated; stamens 4 or 5, sometimes partly adnate to the corolla, alternate with its 
lobes; ovary 2 to 5-celled, inferior; fruit a berry or drupe. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
Corolla rotate; styles deeply 3 to 5-cleft, short; inflores- 
cence compound-cymose; fruit drupaceous; 
erect shrubs; leaves pinnate.........-........ 1. SamBucus (p. 609.) 
Corolla tubular, campanulate, funnelform, or salver- 
form, sometimes 2-lipped, never rotate; styles 
slender, not divided; inflorescence simple, few- 
flowered; fruit dry or berry-like; erect or pros- 
trate shrubs or undershrubs; leaves simple. 
Trailing evergreen plant; stamens 4, didynamous; 
flowers in pairs, pedicellate and on long pe- 
duncles. .......22.-.-.-22..222.......... 2. LINNAEA (p. 610). 
Erect or vinelike shrubs with woody stems; sta- 
mens mostly 5; flowers variously disposed. 
Corolla regular, tubular-funnelform; fruit 2- 
seeded... eee ee eee eee eee 3. SYMPHORICARPOS (p. 610). 
Corolla more or less bilabiate, broadly funnel- 
form, or nearly regular; fruit few to 
many-seeded. 
Upper leaves connate-perfoliate; flowers 
mostly in terminal clusters, pseudo- 
verticillate or crowded; corolla not: 
saccate at the base............... 4, Lonicera (p. 611). 
Upper leaves not connate; flowers axillary. 
in pairs, sessile on the end of the 
common peduncle, subtended by 
bracts; corolla conspicuously sac- 
cate at the base, 
