CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 17 
small leaf-scars with a single crescent-shaped bundle-trace, op- 
posite or in whorls of 3 with a narrow connecting stipular line; 
small often superposed buds nearly concealed in the bark, the 
terminal wanting; simple rather large and long-stalked entire 
leaves; small funnel-shaped perfect gamopetalous white flowers 
in dense long-stalked terminal and axillary heads; and similar 
aggregates of inversely pyramidal small hard fruits. 
Leaves broad, elliptical-ovate. C. occidentalis. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate. C. occidentalis angustifolia. 
GARDENIA. Cape Jessamine. 
Evergreen shrubs with pale or brownish wood with minute 
diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays; moderate square 
twigs; somewhat angled continuous pith; opposite slightly raised 
half-round leaf-scars, connected by transverse stipule-scars; ses- 
sile stipule-sheathed pointed buds; moderate cuneate-obovate en- 
tire leaves; and large solitary perfect funnel-shaped gamopetalous 
fragrant white flowers, with 1-celled ovary,—the calyx tubular, not 
ribbed and with long teeth in the following. 
Flowers single. C, jasminoides. 
Flowers double. C. jasminoides plena. 
MITCHELLA. Partridge Berry. 
Small evergreen nearly herbaceous trailing plants with small 
opposite petioled leaves with intervening connate stipules; tubular 
funnel-shaped or salver-shaped rather small perfect flowers paired 
at end of slender axillary stalk; and rather small red twinned 
inferior berries with a few large seeds. 
Leaves round-ovate, very obtuse, glabrous. M. repens, 
Family CAPRIFOLIACEAE. . Honeysuckle Family. 
A moderate sized family of no great use apart from garden- 
ing, but containing some of the most used and most prized plant 
materials of the landscape gardener. 
SAmBucus, Elder. 
Deciduous shrubs or straggling small trees with soft pale 
wood with minute ducts, diffused or in a somewhat evident tan- 
