178 CAPEIFOLIACEAE. 



16. BOBBEEIA Meyer. Herbs or woody plants. Leaf-blades herbaceous. 

 Flowers in compact axillary cymes. Sepals usually 2, sometimes 4, unequal. 

 Corolla with a short tube and 4 broad lobes. Stamens 4: filaments adnate to 

 the top of the corolla-tube: anthers globular to oval. Capsule with each carpel 

 open along the inner face. 



Calyx-lobes triangular or lanceolate: corolla much longer than the calyx: filaments 

 longer than the anthers. 1. B. podocephala. 



Calyx-lobes subulate, corolla about as long as the calyx : fila- 

 ments very short. 2. B. parviflora. 



1. B. podocephala DC. Perennial, 0.5-3 dm. tall: leaf -blades linear-spatulate 

 to linear, often narrowly so, 1-3 cm. long, veinless: corolla-lobes over 1 mm. 

 long. — Pinelands. — F. K. (Cuba, Ant.) 



2. B. parviflora Meyer, Annual, 1-9 dm. tall: leaf -blades oblong to elliptic, 

 linear-oblong, or linear, 1-2.5 cm. long, veiny: corolla-lobes over 1 mm. long. 

 — Pinelands. — F. K. (Cuba, Ant.) 



17. SPEEMACOCE [Dill.] L. Herbs or woody plants. Leaf-blades 

 herbaceous. Flowers in dense, axillary cymes. Sepals usually 4. Corolla with 

 a short tube and 4 broad lobes. Stamens 4: filaments adnate at least to the 

 lower part of the corolla-tube: anthers oval or globular. Capsule with 1 

 dehiscent and 1 indehiscent carpel. 



1. S. tenuior (L.) Lam. Stems 1-5 dm. tall, often pubescent: leaf-blades oblong, 

 elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate. 2-5 cm. long: corolla-lobes ovate, shorter than the 

 tube: fruits over 2 mm. long, coarsely hispidulous. — Hammocks. — F. K. (Ber., 

 Bah., Cuba, Ant.) 



18. GALIUM L. AVeak or wide-spreading herbs. Leaves with blades 

 and stipules about equal in size. Flowers in simple or rarely branched cymes, 

 the ultimate flower-stalks bracted. Sepals usually obsolete. Corolla rotate, 

 mostly 4-lobed. Stamens usually 4. Fruit didymous, the carpels leathery or 

 succulent. 



1. G. bermudense L. Plants diffuse, the stems 1-6 dm. long: blades of the 

 leaves, and stipules, oval-oblong, 5-25 mm. long, cuspidate, pellucid-punctate 

 and pubescent beneath: flowers 3-5 together: corolla greenish-white; lobes 

 narrowly ovate, about 2 mm. long: fruits about 5 mm. thick, baccate. 

 [Galium Itispidulum Michx.] — Hammocks. — F. K. (Ber., Bah.) — Bedstraw. 



Family 2. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 



Shrubs, trees, vines, or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite: blades 

 entire, toothed, or pinnate. Flowers mostly perfect, in terminal or axil- 

 lary cymes, or axillary. Calyx of mostly 4 or 5 minute or foliaeeoua 

 sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 partially united petals, often irregular. Androe- 

 cium of 4 or 5 stamens: filaments partially adnate to the corolla-tube. 

 r4ynoecium 2-5-carpellarj'. Ovary inferior. 



1. SAMBUCUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees, with pithy stems. Leaf- 

 blades pinnate. Flowers in thyrsoid or flat-topped cymes. Sepals minute. 

 Anthers oblong or oval. Ovary 3-5-cellod. Drupes juicy. 



1. S. intermedia Carr. Shrub or small tree: leaflets 5-11, the blades oblong to 

 ovate or oval, 3-14 cm. long, serrate, with incurved teeth: cymes convex: 

 corolla .5-6 mm. wide: drupe 4-6 mm. in diameter. — Hammocks. — (Cuba, Ant.) 

 — Elder. 



