500 NATURAL SISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or from disappearance of septum, 1. Seeds oo ; albumen fleshy; 

 embryo small. — Erect or climbing shrubs, glabrous or variously pilose ; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile or connate (Gaprifolium '), entire 

 or on some branches lobed or pinnatifid; flowers Mn contracted cymes; 

 cymes axillary or spuriously verticillate (Gaprifolium), or (Xylosteori^) 

 reduced to 2 flowers, at germens free or more or less or quite connate, 

 stipitate or sessile ; bracts free or connate under flowers. {All warm 

 and temp, regions of the north, hemisph.*) 



199. Triosteum L.' — Flowers (nearly of Lonicera) irregular; 

 receptacle ovoid. Calyx lobes 5, short or elongate, subulate or folia- 

 ceous. Corolla unequally tubular-campanulate; tube obUque or slightly 

 curved, at base sometimes (anteriorly) gibbous ; lobes of oblique limb 

 5, unequal, imbricate. 'Stamens 5, inserted in tube ; filaments free; 

 anthers introrse enclosed, 2-rimose. Germen inferior ; disk epigynous 

 small ; style slender enclosed, at stigmatose apex depressed capitate, 

 suborbicular or shortly 3-5-lobed. Ovules in cells 3-5, solitary, de- 

 scending from top of internal angle ; micropyle introrsely superior. 

 Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, crowned with calyx. Seeds 2-f», descending, 

 smooth angular ; embryo small, albuminous. — Perennial herbs, gla- 

 brous or glandular-pilose ; leaves opposite, sessile, entire, obovate or 

 subfiddle-shaped ; flowers^ axillary solitary or glomerulate, sometimes 

 (from leaves changed to bracts) in short compound glomerulate spikes, 

 2-'bracteolate. (Temp. N. America, temp, mount. Asia.') 



^T.Inst. 608, t. 378.— J. (?e«. 212.— RosM. et t. 15, v.— Kvrz, For. Fl. Br. Burm.ii.3.— Rook. 



ScH. Si/st. 5, xix. — Periclt/mentmi T. Inst. 608, p. etTnoMS. Jourv. Linn. S c. ii. 1C5. — Maxim. 



t. 378. Bull Acad. Filers. MSI. Biol. x. So.— "WiUK. et 



' Rather large or small, white, yellow, green- Lang. Prodi: Fl. Hisp. ii. 331. — Gru. et Godk. 



ish, pink or purplish, sometimes sweet-scented. Fl. de Fr. ii. 8. — Bot.Eeg. t. 31, 70, 138, 556, 712, 



' T. /«««. 609, t. 379.— J. (?en. 212.— ZyZosCeuffi 1179, 1457; (1844) t. 33; (1847) t. 44.— .Bo*. 



ToRR. Fl. Unit. St. i. 2i2.—Chamaceraam T. Mag. t. 640, 781, 1318, 1753, 1965, 2469, 3103, 



Jn5«.609, t. 37S.—Nintooa Sw. Sort. Brit. (ed. 2) 3316, 5709.— Walp. Hep. ii. 447 ; Ti. 4; Ann. 



258.—? CoJeea Neck. Flem. n. 219 (not L.). i. 365 ; ii. 783 ; v. 94. 



* Spec, ahout 75. Gtmrt}!. Fruct. t. 27 {Capri- ' Gen. n. 134. — J. Gen. 211. — G.»iitn. Frvet. 



folium).— B.. B. K. Nov. Qen. et Sp. t. 297.— i. 129, t. 26.— Lamk. III. t. 150.— PoiR. Diet. 



Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1. 100. — A. Ghat, Smiths. Tiii. 108. — DC. Frodr. iv. 329.— Spach, Suit, d 



Contrib. r. 66. — Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 85-89.— Buffon, viii. 328.— Endl. Gen. n. 3338.— H. Bn. 



Wight, III. t. 121, 1207 ; Icon. t. 1025.— Jacb. Adansonia, i. 359.— B. H. Gen. ii. 4, 1227, n. 6. 



et Spach, III. PI. Or. i. t. 69-73.— Reichb. le. — Hoox. Fl. Ind. iii. 8. 



Fl. Germ. 1. 1172-1175.— Boiss. Voy. Fap. t. 81, « V^^hitish, yellow, or purple. 



82 ; Fl. Or. iii. 4.— Hoox. Icon. t. 806, 807.— A. ' Spec 3, of which 1 Asiatic. Sweet, Br. Fl. 



Gray, Man. (ed. 2) 164.— Clos, C. Gay Fl. Chil. Gard. ser. 2, t. 43.— Wall. Moxh. FL Ind. ii. 180. 



iii. 175.— Mio. Fl:Ind.-Bat. ii. 125 ; Suppl. 213, — Bigel. Med. Bot. t. 9. 

 537.— Benth. Fl. Honijk. liS.—'B^nD. Fl. Si/lv. 



