398 
Orver LX. CAPRIFOLIACEZE. 
Calyx-tube Me to the ovary, the limb short, truncate or of 4 or 5 rarely 
more lobes or teeth. Corolla gamopetalous, inserted round the epigynous 
e 
with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2- to 5-ce ed or 
rarely 1-celled, with 1 or more pendulous ovules in each ce tigmas as 
many as cells, or united en one, sessile or on a single filiform style. Fruit 
an indehiscent berry, or rarely dry, 1- to 5-celled. 
cell. bryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen ; radicle superior, cotyledons 
oval or oblong.—Trees, shrubs, or climbers, — € herbs. Leaves opposite, 
wally without stipules, simple or rarely pinna 
A rather small GK p — over the temper: e regions of the northern hemi- 
KS with a ert ew tro hern aree ura KS d in Australia by na ara 
1. SAMBUCUS, Linn. 
Calyx-limb of 3 to 5 small teeth. Corolla with a very short tube, and 3 
to 5 lobes, spreading so as to appear rotate, Stamens inserted at the base 
of the corolla, MM 3- to 5-celled with 1 pendulous ovule in Sé ` 
opposite, pinnate, owers white or calla gore small, in large veel 
ry ymes. 
The genus is widely dispersed over Europe, temperate Asia, and North A merica. - 
Australian species are both endemic, but nearly correspond to the two commonest o 
n ones. 
wer sh sia Leaves eeng stipule-like lobes. Flowers mostly 
rries vell . 1. S. zanthocarpt 
Til po Lowest leaflets of each leaf close to the stem, short 
and eier looki i 
E 00 king like Sa, Flowers mo unt D fm pum 9. S. Gaudichaudiana. 
: s. xanthocarpa, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 145, 5, and in 
Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. i 42; Pl. Vict. t.29. A tall shrub or small d 
d. Brisbane river, Moreton vig e Mel ‘wa Wer? 
Wales, A. Cunningham. Blue Mountains, Miss At thinson ; n Pur 
; Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler; southward to seine F. Mueller; in the 
river, Mitchell. 
2. S. Gaudichaudiana, DC. Prod. iv. 322. Stems from a per? nil 
stock herbaceous, erect, 3 to bR. high, Gage as well as the rest of T 
