TAXONOMY 



399 



Caprifoliacea or Honey Suckle Family. Shrubs or rarely herbs. 

 Leaves entire, opposite, exstipulate or with delicate, attenuate or 

 filiform stipules. Inflorescence varying from a raceme of shortened 

 cymes to a capitulum. Flowers varying from regular and small 



PIG. 232. Cepha'&lis ipecacuanha Plant and dried root. (Sayre.) 



(Sambucus, Viburnum, etc.) to increasingly large, slightly irregular 

 and ultimately very irregular in some Loniceras and in a few Weige- 

 las and allies; calyx pentamerous, superior; corolla superior, gamo- 

 petalous, limb pentafid, small in Viburnum and Sambucus to 



