40 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
CC. Twining or creeping shrubs; cymes often forming terminal 
panicles; corolla always two-lipped, often with very long 
and slender tube; fruits distinct (except in L. calcarata), 
black or rarely white; branches hollow, rarely solid. 
4. Sect, NINTOOA (sp. 108-131). 
AA. Flowers in three-flowered sessile cymes forming whorls or spikes 
at the end of the branches; fruits red, always distinct. Twining, 
rarely dumose shrubs with hollow branches; upper leaves usually 
connate, II. Subgen. Periclymenum (sp. 132-154). 
Subgenus I. CHAMAECERASUS. 
Lonicera § Chamaecerasus, Linné, Spec. Pl. 173 (as 
Chamaecerosa) (1753).— Willdenow, Spec. Pl. 12: 985 
(1797); Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 221 (1809). 
Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St.’ Pétersb. 
24:37; Mél. Biol. 10:59 (1877), and § Nintooa (placed 
under the subgenus Caprifolium). 
Aylosteum, Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. abridg. 3 (as 
Xylosteon) (1754).— Jussieu, Gen. Pl. 212 (1789). — 
Ventenat, Tabl. Regne Vég. 2:597 (1799).— 
Dumont de Courset, Bot. Cult. 2: 274 (1802). — Mi- 
chaux, Fl. Bor. Am. 1:106 (1803).— Pursh, Fl. Am. 
Sept. 1: 161 (1803). — Nuttall, Gen. N. Am. Pl. 1: 138 
(1818). — Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. 
3:426 (1818).—S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2:487 
(1821). — Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2. 88 (1824).— Torrey, 
Fl. N. M. Sect. U. S. 1: 244 (1824).—D. Don, FI. Nepal. 
140 (1825). —Bartling, Ord. Pl. 214 (1830).— Fuss, FI. 
Transylv. Exc. 284 (1866). — Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 
1:281 (1900). 
Adanson, Fam. Pl. 2:157 (1763), and his Zstka,*— 
Moench, Meth. Pl. 502 (1794). — Borkhausen, Handb. 
Forstbot. 2:1679 (1803). 
[Tournefort, Inst. Rei Herb. 1:609 (1700).] — 
* See foot-note, p. 37. 
