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CAPRIFOLIACE.E. 



[Epigtnous Exogens. 



Order CCXCIV. CAPRIFOLIACEJE.— Caprifoils. 



Caprifolia, Juss. Gen. 210. '17-9 in part.— Caprifoliaceae, Rich. Diet. Class. 3. 172 ; DC. Prodr. 4. 321 ; 

 Bartl. Ord. Nat. 213. (1830j.— Lonicereae, Endl. Gen. exxviii. 



Diagnosis. — Cinchona! Exogens, with epipctalous stamens, straight anthers bursting longi- 

 tudinally, consolidated fruit, and leaves without stipules. 



Shrubs or herbaceous plants, with opposite leaves, destitute of stipules. Flowers 

 usually corymbose, and often sweet-scented. Calyx superior, 4- 5-cleft, usually with 2 



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or more bracts at its base. Corolla superior, monopetalous or polypetalous, rotate or 

 tubular, regular or irregular. Stamens epipetalous, equal in number to the lobes of the 

 corolla, and alternate with them. Ovary with from 1 to 5 cells, one of which is often 

 1 -seeded, the others being many-seeded ; in the former the ovule is pendulous ; style 1 ; 

 stigmas 3, or 5. Fruit indehiscent, 1- or more-celled, either dry, fleshy, or succulent, 

 crowned by the persistent lobes of the calyx. Seeds either solitary and pendulous, or 

 numerous and attached to the axis ; testa often bony ; embryo very small, in fleshy 

 albumen ; radicle next the hilum. 



As left by Jussieu this Order was a heterogeneous assemblage ; as altered and better 

 limited it seems to be less objectionable. It possesses a striking affinity with Cincho- 



Pig. DVII.— Sambucus nif?ra ; 1. a flower: 2. a youne; pistil ; 3. a cross section of its ovary; 4. a per- 

 pendicular section of the fruit. 



