R UBIA CEJE. 501 



200. Linnsea GronJ — Flowers regular or irregular; receptacle 

 ovoid or oblong, compressed. ^ Calyx lobes 2-6, free or connate at 

 base, persistent or deciduous, oftener narrow. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 tubular or subcampanulate, regular or irregular, equal or gibbous at 

 base ; lobes 5, equal or unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4, unequal or 

 sub-2-djnamous or subequal ; anthers introrse, enclosed or exserted. 

 Germen 3-celled ; style slender, at apex stigmatose capitate sometimes 

 obtusely 3-lobed, exserted. Ovules in 2 cells oo; in third 1 , descending; 

 raphe dorsal.^ Fruit subglobose (Eulinnmi) or narrow oblong or flask- 

 shaped and crowned with calyx {Abelia^), coriaceous-fleshy, 3-celled; 

 2 cells eifete, the third 1-spermous. Seed albuminous; embryo small 

 terete. — Erect or suberect {Ahelia) shrubs, sometimes (Eidimicea) 

 creeping shrublets ; leaves opposite or 3-nate, petiolate, entire or 

 dentate, glabrous or variously pilose or glandular, exstipulate; flowers^ 

 at top of peduncle terminal or axillary, subsolitary, 2-nate (Eulinncea) 

 or oc, cymose; bracteoles 2-4, either similar or dissimilar in pairs 

 (EuUnncva); 2 acute; 2 alternate broad scale-like thick glandulose- 

 pilose and adnate to germen.^ {All cold and temp, reg, of the north, 

 hemisphJ) 



XIV. SAMBUCE^. 



201. Sambucus T. — Flow^ers regular, hermaphrodite or polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle ovoid or turbinate, sometimes compressed. Calyx 

 3-5-lobed or dentate. Corolla rotate or shortly campanulate ; lobes 

 3-5, valvate or oftener imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted at bottom of 

 corolla or a little higher ; filaments slender, subulate, sometimes 

 rugose ; anthers subovate or oblong, oftener extrorse, 2-rimose. 



'Ztm. Gen. n. 774. — J. Gen. 211. — Hall. scented. 



Helv. n. 299.— Lamk. Diet. iii. 52b ; 111. t. 536. « Plf Dipelta Maxim. {Bull. Acad. PHersb. 



—DC. Prodr. iv. 349.— Turp. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. Mel. Biol. x. 78) a west. Chinese plant, unknown 



t. 107.— Spach, Suit, a Bufon, xiii. 366.— Endl. to us, with irregular corolla and 2-dynamou3 



Gen. n. 3332.— H. Bn. Adunsonia, i. 361.— B.H. stamens, is a sect, of this genus, with a 4-celled 



Gen. ii. 5, n. 8.— Obolaria Sieg. Prim. 79. germen (of Symphoncarpos). 



= Sometimes 1-, sometimes 3-7-nerved. ' Spec, about 8. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 170, t. 9, 



3 Sometimes finally lateral. fig. 3.— Hook. Fl. Land. v. t. 199.— Wight, ///. 



4 E.Br. Clarke's Abel Chin. App. 376, c. icon.; t. 121 {Zmwoea).- A. Gray, Man. (ed. 2) 163.— 

 Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 14, t. 15.— DC. Prodr. iv. Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. t. 34 {Abelin).—h\^\)-L. 

 339.— Endl. Gen. n. 3333.— H. Bn. Adansonia, Journ. Bort. Sac. Lond. i. 63 ; But. Beg.{lUG) t. 

 i 365.— B.H. Gin. ii. 4,n. 7.— Hk. Fl. Ind. iii. 8 {Abelia) ; (1847) t. 55 {Ahelio).—Bot. Mag. t. 

 _ Vesalea Mart, et Gal. Bull. Ac. Br. xi. 242. 4316, 4694 (.>/if//a).— Walp. Pep. ii. 446 ; vi. 3 



* White, pink, red or lilac, sometimes sweet- {Abelia). 



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