loi 



transverse, rarely inconspicuous or irregular, and the minute reticula- 

 tions numerous on the under surface, witli a minute tomentum rarely 

 wanting in the areolae, and sometimes white, and covering the whole 

 under surface, the upper surface almost always glabrous and smooth 

 Flowers sessile in pairs, in dense terminal cylindrical oblong 

 or globular spikes, either terminal and sessile above the" last 

 leaves or rarely lateral, or on short lateral branches; each pair 

 of flowers subtebded by 1 bract and 2 lateral rather smaller 

 braeteoles, both bracts and bracteoles densely woolly-villous on both 

 sides, the. tips glabrous tormentose or villous, either clavate and obtuse 

 or truncate, or shortly acuminate, always densely imbricate in parallel 

 spiral or rarely vertical lines. Perianth tube very slender and entire 

 within the bracts, ultimately splitting beyond them. In fruit the 

 bracts and bracteoles become consolidated with the rhachis into a 

 thick woody cone, either covered with the withered remains of the 

 perianths amongst which the capsules are entirely concealed, or, where 

 the flowers are wholly deciduous, the valves of the capsules protrude 

 more or less beyond the bracts, the lower indehiscent portion con- 

 taining the nuclei of the seeds remaining imbedded among the bracts. 

 The proportion of perfect capsules is usually very small in relation to 

 the number of flowers, of which there are often from 500 to above 

 1,000 in the spike. 



B. integrifolia, Linn. f. The Common Honeysuckle tree. A 

 tree attaining sometimes a considerable size, the young branches 

 closely tomentose. Leaves scattered, sometimes irregularly verticillate, 

 oblong cuneate or lanceolate, quite entire or irregularly toothed, 

 tapering into a short petiole, 3 to ■! inches long in some specimens, 

 twice that length in others, especially the Northern' ones, \ to near 

 1 inch broad, white underneath, with numerous transverse veins and 

 reticulations not very prominent ; the young shoots are also sometimes 

 tomentose or villous with richly coloured fulvous almost woolly hairs 

 persisting on the underside till the leaves are nearly full-grown. 

 Spikes oblong or cylindrical, 3 to 6 inches long. Bracts tomentose at 

 the end. Perianth usually about 1 inch long, silky. Style straightening 

 after the perianth-laminsB have separated, and usually very spreading 

 or reflexed. Praiting-cone oblong, cylindrical, the capsules prominent 

 and not thick as in some other species. 



B. iUtegrifolia, Var, paludosa. Flowers smaller, the perianths 

 about 7 or 8 lines long. This variety is usually met with on sandy 

 land which is of a swampy nature ; it forms a spreading shrub or small 

 stunted tree with smaller leaves than those of the normal form. 



Order EUPHOSBIACE^. 



Amongst Dicotyledons this order stands fourth in point of number. 

 It contains about 3,000 species, in 200 genera. 



Flowers always unisexual. Perianth either simple and calyx- 

 like, or almost petal-like, usually small or double, with 4 or 5 petals 

 alternating with the calyx-lobes, or sometimes entirely wanting in one 

 or both sexes. Stamens various. Ovary superior, consisting of 3 or 

 sometimes 2, or more than 3, united or 1-celled, or rarely 2-Celled 

 carpels, very rarely reduced to a single one. Styles as many as 

 carpels, free or more or less united, entire or divided, the stigmatic 



