LXlir. CAPRlFOLIACEiE. 711 



Order LXIII. CAPRIFOLIACEiE^ 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb short, truncate or of 4 or 5 rarely 

 more lobes or teeth. Corolla gamopetalous, inserted round the epigynous disk ; 

 lobes 4 or 5 rarely 8, imbricate in the bud. Stamens as many as lobes of the 

 corolla, alternate with tbem, inserted in the tube ; anthers versatile with parallel 

 cells opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2 to 5-celled or rarely 1-celled, with 

 1 or more pendulous ovules in each cell. Stigmas as many as cells, or united 

 into one, sessile or on a single filiform style. Fruit an indehiseent berry, or 

 rarely dry, 1 to 5-celled. Seeds 1 or more in each cell. Embryo in the axis of 

 a fleshy albumen ; radicle superior, cotyledons oval or oblong. — Trees, shrubs, or 

 climbers, rarely herbs. Leaves opposite, usually without stipules, simple or 

 rarely pinnate, 



A rather small Order, chiefly dispersed over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, 

 wiih a very few tropical or southern species, represented in Australia by a single genus having 

 a wide range in the northern hemisphere, and remarkable for its pinnate leaves. Many other 

 genera scarcely differ from Ihihiacete except in the want of stipules. — Benth. 



1. SAMBUCUS, Linn. 



(From the Greek, a musical instrument having been made from the wood of 



one species.) 



Calyx-limb of 3 to 5 small teeth. Corolla with a very short tube and S to 5 

 lobes, spreading so as to appear rotate. Stamens inserted at the base of the 

 corolla. Ovary 3 to 5-celled with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell ; stigma sessile, 

 8 to 5-lobed. Fruit a berry-like drupe, with 3 to 5 seed-like pyrenes, each 

 containing a single seed. — Trees, shrubs, or tall herbs. Leaves opposite, pinnate. 

 Flowers white or yellow, rather small, in large terminal corymbose cymes. 



The genus is widely dispersed over Europe, temperate Asia, and North America. The 

 Australian species are both endemic, but nearly correspond to the two commonest of the northern 

 ones. — Benth. 



Shrub or tree. Leaves without stipule-like lobes. Flowers mostly 

 3-merous. Berries yellow . . 1. ,S'. .ranthocaiya. 



Tall shrub. Lowest leaflets of each leaf close to the stem, short and 



broad, looking like stipules. Flowers mostly 4-merous. Berries white 2. S. (imtdicJimidicnut. 



1. S. xanthocarpa (fruit yellow), F. c M. in Hook. Ken- .Town. viii. 146, 

 and in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. i. 42; PL T7rt. t. 29; Bmth. Fl. Amtr. iii. 898. 

 A tall shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaflets 3 or 5, all petiolulate, the 

 lower pair sometimes again divided into 2 or 3 each, lanceolate or ovace-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, narrowed at the base, acutely but not deeply serrate or almost entire, 

 mostly 2 to 8in. long. Primary branches of the corymb umbellate, the others 

 cymose. Flowers mostly 8-merous, rarely 4-merous, white. Berries yellow. — 

 Tripetelns rmstralasicus, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 14. 



Hab.: Brisbane Biver, Moreton Bay, and from there to Trinity Bay. 

 Wood soft, light, and pale-coloured. — Bailey'a Cat. Ql. Woods No. 238. 



2. S. Gaudichaudiana (after A. Gaudichaud), ]>(J. Prod. iv. 322; Bent/i. 

 FL Austr. iii. 898. Stems from a perennial stock herbaceous, erect, 8 to 5ft. 

 high, ^glabrous as well as the rest of the plant. Leaflets 5 to 11, sessile or 

 petiolulate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, coarsely and acutely toothed, 2 to 5in. long, 

 the lowest of each leaf close to the stem, short, broad, and toothed, resembling 

 stipules. Primary branches of the corymb umbellate, the others cymose. 

 Flowers mostly 4-merous. Berries oblong, white. — Hook. f. Fl, Tasra. i. 164, 



Hab.; Many localities in the southern parts of the colony. 



