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limb; corolla lobes undulate; stamens 2, ascending under the anterior lip of 

 the corolla, with flattened arcuate filaments and divergent anther-cells; 

 staminodia 3, free, filiform, or rudimentary; pistil consisting of a sessile, 

 2-CGllcd ovary, contracted above into an elongated, filiform style bearing 2 

 stigmatic lobes at the apex. Fruit an elongated, subterete, pod-like capsule, 

 loculicidally dehiscent, persisting on the trees during the winter; seeds 

 numerous, compressed, oblong, with broad, lateral, fimbriated wings, inserted 

 in 2-4 ranks near the margin of the flat, more or less thickened, woody septum. 



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1. Leaves caudate-acuminate; flowers in few-flowered open panicles; fruit stout, 



thick-waUed C. speciosa 339 



1. Leaves short-acuminate; flowers in many-flowered crowded panicles; fruit 



slender, thin-walled C. bignonioides 337 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. CAPRIFOLIACEAE 



Trees, shrubs, lianas, or perennial herbs with watery juice, scaly 

 buds, opposite leaves, cymose flowers, and drupaceous, capsular 

 or baccate fruit. The family includes ten genera and about three 

 hundred species, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere 

 but with a few s})ecies extending into the tropics and southward. 

 Two genera are represented by arborescent species in the United 

 States. 



Leaves opposite, petiohite, mainly estipulato. Flowers regular, ])erfect, 

 borne in terminal or axillary compound cymes; calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary, 5-toothed; corolla epigynous, 5-lobed and sometimes 2-lipped; stamens 

 0, inserted on the tube of the corolla aJid alternate with its lobes, with slender 

 filaments and oblong anthers; pistil consisting of an inferior or partly 

 inferior 1-5-celled, 1-5-ovuled ovary terminated by a short style and 3-5-lobed 

 capitate stigma. Fruit a 1-5-celled drupe, capsule or berry; seeds albuminous. 



THE NANNY-BERRIES, ETC. Genus VIBURNUM (Tourn.) L. 



Shrubs and small trees with tough flexible branchlets, opposite 

 deciduous leaves, cymose flowers, and drupaceous fruit. The genus 

 includes approximately one hundred species, widely distributed 

 in the north temperate regions of the New and the Old World, 

 a few extending into the tropics and southward. Fifteen species 

 occur in North America, three of wkich become arborescent in the 

 Atlantic States. 



Buds enveloped in a single pair of scales, or naked, geiierally large. Leaves 

 opposite, simple, deciduous, cliiefly estipulatc; petioles often broad at the base. 

 Flowers white or rarely pink, showy, borne on short, bracteolate pedicels in 

 flat, compound cymes, the outer flowers sometimes radiant and neutral; 

 calyx-tube cylindrical, witli short, eqnnlly 5-lobcd limb, persistent in fruit; 

 corolla rotate, equally 5-lobed, spreading and reflexed after anthesis; stamens 



