FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. 
Order LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACEE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Shrubs, erect or scandent, or small trees (Adova, a herb), branches round. 
aves opposite, rarely 3-nate; stipulate or not. lowers hermaphrodite, 
mose or panicled, capitate in Adoxa, regular or irregular. Calyx-tube adnate 
the ovary; limb 3-5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla gamopetalous; limb often 
2-lipped, 5-lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 5 (in Adoxa 8-12), on the 
corolla alternate with its lobes. Ovary inferior (in Adoxa i-inferior), 2-8- 
rarely l-celled ; style long, with capitate stigma, or short, 2-5-lobed; ovules 
solitary, pendulous, or several on axile placentas. Fruit a drupe (in Abelia 
dry), with 1-8 cartilaginous pyrenes, or a many-seeded berry. Seeds 1 or 
many in each cell, albumen copious fleshy; embryo usually minute,— Species 
200; mostly Northern, with a few Australian and S. American. 
Distinguished from Rubiacee chiefly by habit and the frequently irregular flowers 
and rarity of stipules. 
TRIBE I. Sambucese. Coroila-limb regular. Style short, 2-5-lobed. 
Ovary-cells 1-ovuled. 
Leaves 2-ternatisect. Flowers capitate. Stamens 8-12. . . . 1. ADOXA. 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 5-9, serrate . . . . . . . + e « 2. Sambucus. 
ICTR. te A Se eo ce t do ee 
TRIBE II. Lonicerez. Corolla-limb regular or irregular. Style long; 
stigma capitate. 
Leaves sessile, connate, obovate. Ovary-cells 3, 1-ovuled 4. 'TRIOSTEUM. 
Calyx-lobes elongate. Fruit elongate, coriaceous, l-seeded . 5. ABELIA. 
‘Leaves entire, Flowers paired. Berry 2-3-celled. . . . . . 6. LONICERA. 
Leaves exstipulate. Branches fistular. Ovary 5-8-celled . 1. LEYCESTERIA. 
Leaves stipulate. Branches solid. Ovary 5-celled e 8. PENTAPYXIS. 
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| 1. ADOXA, Linn. 
A small glabrous succulent herb. Radical leaves long-petioled, 3-ternatisect ; 
; eauline ni. Flowers small, green, in a peduncled head. Calyx-tube hemi- 
‘spheric; limb j-superior, 2-4-lobed. Corolla rotate, 4-6-lobed. Stamens 
8-12, in pairs alternating with the corolla lobes; anther-cells 2, confluent 
above. Ovary 8-5-celled; styles 3-5; ovules l in each cell. Drupe sub- 
globose; pyrenes 4-5, compressed. Seeds obovate, flattened. 
YOL. III. B 
