RUBIACE^. 499 



capitellate or 2-lobed, enclosed. Ovules in anterior and posterior 

 cells 00, inserted 2-seriately in internal angle (sterile) ; in lateral cells 

 solitary descending (fertile). Fruit fleshy,^ globose or ovoid ; puta- 

 mens small. Seeds descending, albuminous ; embryo minute. — Shrubs 

 glabrous or variously clothed ; leaves opposite, short-petiolate, entire 

 (or sinuate or lobed in younger branches), exstipulate ; flowers ^ in 

 axillary and terminal glomerulate racemes or spikes. {N, America, 

 mount. Mexico,^) 



197. Alseuosmia A. Cunn.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; 

 receptacle subovoid ; calyx equally 4, 5-lobed, deciduous. Corolla 

 regular, tubular or funnel-shaped ; lobes of limb 4, 5, valvate or 

 induplicate ; margins sinuate, denticulate or lobulate. Stamens 4, 5 ; 

 filaments short or 0, inserted in throat of corolla ; anthers introrse, 

 enclosed. Germen 2 -celled; disk epigynous depressed ; style slender, 

 clavate or capitate at stigmatose apex. Ovules in cells go, sometimes 

 few (3, 4), inserted on placenta adnate to septum, oftener 2-seriate 

 ascending. Fruit baccate,^ areolate at apex ; seeds oo, or few; albumen 

 fleshy; embryo minute. — Glabrous shrubs of various form; leaves 

 alternate or sometimes opposite, petiolate, entire or dentate ; axils of 

 nerves protected by a tuft of hairs beneath ; flowers^ axillary and lateral, 

 soHtary or few cymose ; pedicels bracteolate at base. {N, Zealand^) 



198. Lonicera L.^ — Flowers regular or irregular; receptacle glo- 

 bose or ovoid. Calyx short, persistent or deciduous ; teeth 5, equal 

 or unequal. Corolla campanulate, funnel-shaped ; tube short or long, 

 straight or curved, equal or gibbous at base ; lobes of subregular, un- 

 equal or 2-lobed limb 5, short or elongate, equal or unequal, imbricate. 

 Stamens 5, inserted in tube or under throat ; filaments short or rather 

 long ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2, 

 3-celled; disk oftener small; style slender, capitate stigmatose at apex. 

 Ovules in cells oo, inserted in internal angle. Fruit fleshy; cells 2, 3, 



^ White or purplish. " Red or greenish, sweet-scented. 



2 SmaU, white or pink. 7 Spec. 4. Hook. f. Fl. N.-Zel. i. 102, t. 23- 



3 Spec. 5, 6. H. B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 424, 25 ; Ifandb. N.-Zeal. FL 109, 731. 



t. 295, 296.— A.Gray, Man. (ed. 2) 164; Smiihs. » Gen. n. 233 (part).— Desf. FLAtl. i. 483.— 



Contrib. v. 66.—Bot.Mag. t. 2211 {Symphoria), DC. Prodr. iv. 330,— Tukp. Diet. So. Nat. Atl. 



4975.— WALP.i?e/?.ii. 446; ^««. ii. 732; v. 94. t, 105,— Endl, Gen. n. 3337,— Spach, Suit, d 



* Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. 209,— Endl. Gen. n. ^m/o//, viii. 347,— Payer, Oiffanoff. 617, t. 127. 



33411.— H. Bn. Adajisonia, i. 26S.—B. H. Gen. — H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 357, 370, t. 12.— B, H. 



ii. 6, n. 13. Gen. ii. 5, d. 9.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 9. 

 ' Purple." 



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