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gemini connati ; cilycis adnati limbus 5-merns v. obsoletus, 



deciduus ; corolla tubulosa, -i regularis, v. rotala, 5-mera, 



novella imbricala ; stamina allerna 5, raro 4, antheris nor- 

 malibus. Omriurn 2-5-loculare, stylo longo v. subnullo, 2- 

 5-stigmeo, ovulis solitariis, pendulis, anatropis, v. plnrimis et 

 passim abortivis. Jmalthoea baccala v. coriacea, 1-5-locularis, 

 l-oo -sperma ; testa dura, raphe dorsalis v. ventralis, albumen 

 carnosum, embryo brevissim. v. subaequilongus. 



a. Lonicereoe : coroUa tubulosa , stylus fihformis, raphe 

 dorsahs: — Linncea^ Abelia^ SympJiorlcarpos ^ Diervilla^ Lonicera^ 

 Triosteum . . 



'■'■■ b. Samhuceoi: corolla rotata, regularis, sligmata 3 ses- 

 silia, raphe ventraUs: — Vihurnum, Samhucus. 



FAM. 116. RUBIACE.15. 



Hbse frut. arbores, caule ramisque passim letragonis, no- 

 doso arliculatis, fohis opposilis, inlegris ct integerrimis, bisli- 

 pulatis; stipularum morphosis varia, in quibusdam folia ver- 

 ticillala simulans. Flores monoclini, regulares, cymoso-panicu- 

 lati, glomerati, v. mediantibus calycibus connati, raro diclini 

 V. irregulares : calycis limbus superus v. semisuperus, 2-6- 

 merus, integer v. obsoletus; corolla epigyna 4-G-fida, novella 

 valvata, raix) contorto- imbricata. Stamina tubo coroUae inna- 

 ta, isomera, alterna, raro pauciora v. monadelpha v. synan- 

 ihera, antheris normalibus. Ovarium 2- oo - phyllum, 1- 2- oc- 

 loculare, toro epigyno carnoso, vario v, obsoleto, stylo 2- oc- 

 fido, ovulis ana-amphitropis, erectis, pendulis v. peltalis, so- 

 litariis s. conferlis. Jmalthcea sicca, baccata v. drupacea, lo- 

 culis l-oo -spermis; scK.ina pbno-convexa v. compressa, alato, 



albumine -\ duro, raro subnullo, embryone axili, longo 



V. brevissimo, cotyledonib. crassis v. foliaceis, radicula saepius 

 infera. 



A. CoFFEACEAE : ovula et semina in loculis solitaria, raro 



gemina. 



