208 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



II. MONOPETALOUS DIVISION. 



Includes the families which have both calyx and corolla, 

 and the latter in one piece ; that is, the petals united more 

 or less into one body. Yet in some plants, especially the 

 compositse, the calyx is so much reduced or modified as to 

 appear to be wanting ; and in a few others, as some of the 

 Ericaceae, the petals are separate. 



LVH. CAPRIFOLIACE.E, HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with calyx adherent to the 2-5- 

 celled ovary (the teeth or limb above it sometimes nearly 

 obsolete or obscure), stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla (or in Adoxa twice as many, and in Linnaea one fewer) 

 and borne on its tube, and opposite leaves without stipules. 

 In some species of Viburnum there are little appendages 

 on the base of the petiole imitating stipules. Fruit a drupe 

 or berry, or sometimes a pod. Seeds with a small embryo in 

 fleshy albumen. 



* Corolla shallow, wheel-shaped or urn-shaped ; stigmas 8-5 (sometimes 1 in Vibur- 

 num). Fruit a dryish or fleshy drupe. 

 +- Herbs ; flowers capitate. 



1. ADOXA. Low, with a single pair of ternate, cauline leaves. A pair of separate or 



united stamens with 1-celled anthers in each sinus of the 4-6-cleft, greenish or yellow- 

 ish, small corolla. Fruit dry, with 3-6 nutlets. 



+- +- Shrubs or some low trees, with small flowers in broad cymes, and berry-like fruit, 

 containing 1-3 seeds or rather seed-like stones. Calyx-teeth on the ovary very 

 short or obscure ; stamens 5. 



2. VIBURNUM. Leaves simple. Fruit containing a single flat or flattish stone. 



8. SAMBUCUS. Leaves pinnate, and the oblong or lanceolate leaflets serrate. Fruit con- 

 taining 3 seeds or rather small, seed-like stones. 



* * Corolla longer or tubular, frequently irregular, sometimes 1-lipped ; stigma \. 

 +- Perennial herbs, with prominent awl shaped or linear lobes to the calyx, and axil- 

 lary flowers. 



4. LINN^EA. A pair of flowers nodding on the summit of a slender, scape-like peduncle. 



Corolla narrow, bell-shaped, with 5 almost equal, rounded lobes. Stamens 4, two of 

 them shorter. Ovary and small pod 3-celled, but perfecting a seed in only one cell. 

 Creeping evergreen herb. 



5. TKIOSTEUM. Flowers sessile in the axils of the leaves, single or in a cluster. Corolla 



oblong-tubular, with 5 short, almost equal lobes, scarcely longer than the leaf-like lobes 

 of the calyx. Stamens 5, equal. Fruit fleshy, orange or red, crowned with the per- 

 sistent calyx-lobes, containing 3 bony seeds or rather nutlets. Erect and coarse, leafy 

 herbs ; their leaves narrowed at base, but united around the simple stem. 



