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opposite, lobed leaves, the petioles glandular above and 

 with firnbriate stipules below. Flowers white, in much- 

 branched and extended, flat corymboid cymes; those at 

 the periphery barren, and with large, sub-rotate, slightly 

 irregular corollas; the remainder hermaphrodite, with 

 small, regular, tubular corolla. Homogamous, with ex- 

 posed honey. Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla-lobes, 

 and exserted. Stigmas 3, sessile. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, 

 scarlet. 



** Corolla zygomorphic, with a long tube 

 and two-lipped limb, glandular pubescent. 



t Flowers crowded in terminal heads; corolla 

 30 50 mm. with long tube, red outside, 

 yellow within. Plants twining. 



Heads of flowers peduncled. 



Lonicera Periclymenum, L. Honeysuckle, Woodbine. 

 Twining plant, with opposite, petiolate, more or less 

 elliptical leaves, and yellow fragrant flowers. Protandrous, 

 homogamous and strongly scented in the evening, when 

 the moths pollinate them. Flowers yellowish-white 

 dashed with red passing to dull yellow; in terminal 

 long-stalked clusters of dichasia. Calyx, bracts and 

 long peduncles glandular pubescent. Pollen spheroidal, 

 echinulate, drying to tetrads. Berries red : the pericarp, 

 placenta, bracts and axis becoming fleshy, but the fruits 

 not fusing. 



Heads of flowers sessile in the leaf -axils. 



Lonicera Caprifolium, L. Perfoliate Honeysuckle (Fig. 

 142). Twining, and much resembling L. Periclymenum, but 

 the flowers are sessile in terminal whorls in the axils of the 

 uppermost connate leaves. Pollinated by moths as in the 

 case of L. Periclymenum. Corolla 2 2*5 cm. long, tubular, 



