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The Honeysuckles (Lonicera) have flowers more or less irregular 

 chiefly in the corolla (fig. 371, 373). Of the five lobes, imbricate in 

 the bud (fig. 372), four finally range themselves on the posterior 



Lonicera Caprifolium. 



Lonicera ciliata. 



Lonicera Xylosteum, 



side of the flower and form a lip, whilst the anterior lip is represented 

 only by the fifth lobe. There are five stamens in the androecium, 

 and the ovary has three or two cells, one of which is posterior, with 



an indefinite number of 



ovules in each. The fruit 



is a polyspermous berry and 



the seeds are albuminous. 



They are shrubs abundant 



in temperate or even warm 



regions, particularly of the 



northern hemisphere. The 



leaves are opposite or rarely 



verticillate, entire or some- 

 times pinnatilobed. The 

 flowers are in cymes in which the axes often become so short that 

 the definite inflorescence may resemble a capitule. In this case the 

 calyx often persists at the summit of the fruit, the partitions of which 

 become pulpy or disappear. The name Caprifolium has been given 



Fig. 377. Long. sect, of 

 geminate fruit. 



Fig. 378. Free 

 geminate flowers. 



