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celled: bract 1, lateral, hooded at the base of the ovary: petals 4, 
linear, thickened at the apex: flower-buds quadrangular ; angles 
somewhat winged towards the apex : berries globose-pea-shaped. 
Neilgherries. Travancore. 
(80) L. Brumeanus. (R. W.) 
Tdent, Cale. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p. 362.—Walp. Ann. IT. p, 
730. : 
Srec, Cuar. Branches terete: younger ones scurfy : leaves 
broad-ovate, or somewhat cordate at the base, subacuminate: ra- 
cemes simple, axillary or 2—-3-fascicled at the knots of the branches, 
much shorter than the leaves: flowers pedicelled: bract anterior, 
gibbous below: flower-bud cylindric, acuminate, scurfy: calyx 
truncated, entire: petals 4, linear, acute; avary. globose. 
Courtallum. 
ORDER LXXX. CAPRIFOLIACEZ. 
Shrubs with opposite exstipulate leaves: flowers terminal, 
corymbose or axillary: calyx-limb 5, rarely 4-lobed: segments 
of the corolla alternate with the sepals: zestivation. imbricated : 
stamens alternating with the petals: filaments subulate: anthers 
ovate, 2-selled: ovary cohering with the calyx-tube, 3, rarely 4— 
5-celled: ovules few, pendulous: style 1, exserted or wanting: 
stigmas either distinct or combined into one capitate stigma : 
fruit crowned by the calyx, fleshy, many-celled’ or 1-celled 
by abortion: seeds solitary or in pairs or several in each cell: 
embryo straight, in the contre of a fleshy albumen. 
GENUS I. SAMBUCUS. 
Pentaudria Trigynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Sambuca, a musical instrument whieh is supposed 
to have been made of elder-wood. 
Gen. Cyan. Shrubs or herbaceous plants: leaves opposite, un- 
equally pinnated : divisions toothed or serrated, sometimes again 
pinnated or laciniated, with 2 stipules or glands at the base of the 
petiole: corymbs or cymes terminal: calyx.5-cleft : corolla 5-cleft s 
petals obtuse: style wanting: stigmas sessile: berry pulpy, 1-cell- 
ed, 3-5-seeded: seeds oblong, angled on one side. : 
