GAMOPETAL^— CAPRIFOLIACE^ 



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CAPBIFOLIACE^ (Honeysuckle Family) 



Shrubs or herbs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, or with 

 minute stipules. Flowers regular or irregular, cyclic, epigynous. 

 Sepals five, small, gamosepalous (with three to five lobes). 

 Petals five, gamopetalous. Stamens five, epipetalous. Carpels 

 usually three (three to five), syncarpous, inferior ; ovary with one 

 or several chambers, containing one or more ovules. Seeds 

 endospermic. 



Type I. : HONEYSUCKLE {Lotiicera peridymemum). 



Vegetative characters. — Woody climber with opposite ex- 

 stipulate leaves. Inflorescence. ^ — Head-like cymes terminate 

 a number of the upper branches ; small bracts are present. 

 Flower (fig. 199) median-zygomorphic, two-lipped, § , cyclic, 

 epigynous. Sepals five, combined to form a five-toothed calyx 

 {ex). Petals five, combined to form a corolla with a very long 



Fig. igg. — Medirin vertical section of flower of Honeysuckle : ^=disk. 



tube {cor), and two lips; the upper lip has four teeth, and 

 therefore represents four petals (//) ; the lower lip is not 

 toothed, and represents the single anterior petal {ap). Stamens 

 {a) five, inserted on the corolla-tube, alternating with the 

 petals. Carpels three, syncarpous, inferior. Ovary {ov) three- 

 chambered, with several ovules in each chamber on an axile 

 placenta. Style one. The style {sy) is very long, and brings 

 the stigma far beyond the mouth of the corolla-tube. Stigma 

 {sg) knob-like. Fruit, a red berry, containing a few seeds. 

 Note that the head of flowers forms a cluster of fruits (in- 



