FOREST FLORA OF BRITISH BURMA. 
CAPRIFOLIACEA. 
Flowers regular or almost irregular. Calyx-tube adnate to the 
ovary, the limb truncate or 4-5- or more -lobed or -toothed. Corolla 
gamopetalous, tubular, funnel-shaped or rotate, inserted round the 
epigynous fleshy disk, 4- or 5- or rarely 3-lobed, imbricate. Stamens 
_ as many as corolla-lobes and alternating with them, inserted in the 
tube; anthers versatile, the cells parallel, opening longitudinally. 
Ovary inferior, 2-5- rarely 1-celled, with 1 or more pendulous ovules 
in each cell ; stigmas as many as ovary-cells or united into one, 
sessile, or on a filiform simple style. Fruit an indehiscent berry or 
rarely a dry, dehiscing capsule, nude or crowned by the calyx-limb, 
1-5-celled. Seeds solitary or several in each cell, the testa crusta- 
ceous or bony, rarely membranous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo 
axial ; radicle superior ; cotyledons oval or oblong.—Trees or shrubs, 
sometimes climbing, =o. _— with opposite, simple or pinnate 
leaves. Stipules usually none. Flowers small or middling-sized, 
variously arranged, but aaa cymose 
small order of hardly any interest. to the forester. The 
honeysuckles are celebrated for their fragrance and beauty. Medi- 
cinal properties exist in the elders and some other genera. All 
urmese species are woody plants. 
* Corolla ae hinge rotate or shorily tubular, Stigmas 3, on 
a very short style. 
Berry by abortion 1- eae and 1- pate — simple ‘ . Viburnum, 
Berry with 3-5 pyrenes ; leaves unpaire ed-p nnate or age sagged C erraneiecs 
* * Corolla- ibe more or less ee the limb often ir 
gular. Style filiform. 
Corolla tubular; ovary and berry 2-3-celled, the latter few- or 
many-seeded icera. 
sce fbr funnel shaped, regular ; ovary 2. celled, with a 
2-ovuled placenta protruding into the cells so as to 
Scvin & spuriously 4-celled ovary; fruita drupe . . Scyphiphora, 
VIBURNUM. 
Calyx-tube ovate or turbinate, the limb persistent, 5- rarely 
4-cleft. Corolla rotate or shortly funnel-shaped, joa goto d 
ingly 5- rarely 4-lobed. Stamens equal, 5 or 4. Ovary 1- rarely 
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