FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. 



ORDER LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Shrubs, erect or scandent, or small trees (Adoxa, a herb), branches round. 

 Leaves opposite, rarely 3-nate; stipulate or not. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 cymose or panicled, capitate in Adoxa, regular or irregular. Calyx-tube adnate 

 to the ovary ; limb 3-5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla gamopetalous ; limb often 

 2-lipped, 5-lobed, lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens 5 (in Adoxa 8-12), on the 

 corolla alternate with its lobes. Ovary inferior (in Adoxa ^-inferior), 2-8- 

 rarely 1-celled ; style long, with capitate stigma, or short, 2-5-lobed ; ovules 

 solitary, pendulous, or several on axile placentas. Fruit a drupe (in Abelia 

 dry), with 1-8 cartilaginous pyrenes, or a many-seeded berry. Seeds 1 or 

 many in each cell, albumen copious fleshy ; embryo usually minute. Species 

 200 ; mostly Northern, with a few Australian and S. American. 



Distinguished from RubiacctB chiefly by habit and the frequently irregular flowers 

 and rarity of stipules. 



TRIBE I. Sambuceae. Corolla-limb regular. Style short, 2-5-lobed. 

 Ovary-cells 1-ovuled. 

 Leaves 2-ternatisect. Flowers capitate. Stamens 8-12 .... 1. ADOXA. 



Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 5-9, serrate 2. SAMBUCUS. 



Leaves undivided 3. VIBTTBNUM. 



TRIBE II. Lonicereec. Corolla limb regular or irregular. Style long ; 

 stigma capitate. 



Leaves sessile, connate, obovate. Ovary-cells 3, 1-ovuled ... 4. TEIOSTEUM. 



Calyx-lobes elongate. Fruit elongate, coriaceous, 1 -seeded ... 5. ABELIA. 



Leaves entire. Flowers paired. Berry 2-3-celled 6. LONICEBA. 



Leaves exstipulate. Branches fistular. Ovary 5-8-celled ... 7. LEYCESTERIA. 



Leaves stipulate. .Branches solid. Ovary 5-celled 8. PENTAPYXIS. 



1. ADOXA, Linn. 



A small glabrous succulent herb. Radical leaves long-petioled, 3-ternatisect ; 

 cauline 3-fid. Flowers small, green, in a peduncled head. Calyx-tube hemi- 

 spheric ; limb ^-superior, 2-4-lobed. Corolla rotate, 4-G-lobed. Stamens 

 8-12, in pairs alternating with the corolla lobes; anther-cells 2, confluent 

 above. Ovary 3-5-celled; styles 3-5; ovules 1 in each cell. Drupe sub- 

 globose ; pyrenes 4-5, compressed. Seeds obovate, flattened. 



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