BUBIAC£JE. 501 



200. Linnsea Gron.' — Flowers regular or irregular; receptacle 

 ovoid or oblong, compressed.^ Calyx lobes 2-6, free or connate at 

 base, persistent or deciduous, oftener narrow. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 tubular or subcampanulate, regular or irregular, equal or gibbous at 

 base ; lobes 5, equal or unequal, imbricate. Stamens 4, unequal or 

 Bub-2-dynamous or subequal ; anthers introrse, enclosed or exserted. 

 Grermen 3-celled ; style slender, at apex stigmatose capitate sometimes 

 obtusely 3-lobed, exserted. Ovules in 2 cells oo; in third 1 , descending; 

 raphe dorsal.^ Fruit subglobose (Eulinncea) or narrow oblong or flask- 

 shaped and crowned with calyx {Abelia *), coriaceous-fleshy, 3-celled ; 

 2 cells effete, the third 1-spermous. Seed albuminous; embryo small 

 terete. — Erect or suberect (Abelia) shrubs, sometimes {Eulinnma) 

 creeping shrublets ; leaves opposite or 3-nate, petiolate, entire or 

 dentate, glabrous or variously pilose or glandular, exstipulate; flowers^ 

 at top of peduncle terminal or axillary, subsolitary, 2-nate {Eulinnma) 

 or 00, cymose; bracteoles 2-4, either similar or dissimilar in pairs 

 (Eulinncea); 2 acute ; 2 alternate broad scale-like thick glandulose- 

 pilose and adnate to germen.^ (All cold and temp. reg. of the north, 

 hemisphJ) 



XIV. SAMBUCE^. 



201. Sambucus T. — Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle ovoid or turbinate, sometimes compressed. Calyx 

 8-5-lobed or dentate. Corolla rotate or shortly campanulate ; lobes 

 3-5, valvate or oftener imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted at bottom of 

 corolla or a little higher; filaments slender, subulate, sometimes 

 rugose; anthers subovate or oblong, oftener extrorse, 2-rimbse. 



"j;»/». Qeit. n. 774.— J. Gen. 2H.— Hall. scented. 



Seh. n. 299.-LAMK. Diet. iii. 528 ; 111. t. 536. » ?If Dipelta Maxim. (Bull. Jcad. Fttersh. 



—DC. Prodr. iv. 349.— Tuup. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. Mil. Biol. x. 78) a west. Chinese plant, unknown 



1. 107.— Spaoh, Suit, d, Buffon,yiii. 366.— Endl. to us, with irregular corolla and 2-dynamous 



Got. n. 3332.— H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 361.— B. H. stamens, is a sect, of this genus, vith a 4-oelled 



Gen. ii. 6, n. i.—Obolaria Sieo. Prim. 79. germen (of Symphoncarpos). 



' Sometimes 1-, sometimes 3-7-nerved. ' Spec, about 8. Wahx. Fl. Lapp. 170, t. 9, 



' Sometimes finally lateral. fig. 3.-Hook. Fl. Loud. v. t. 199.-Wight, /«. 



* R.Br. Clarke's AbelChin. App. 376, c. icon.; t. 121 (LimcEa).-K. Gray, Ma„. (ed. 2) 163.- 

 Wall. ri. As: Bar. i. 14, t. 15.— DC. Fiodr. iv. Sieb. et Zuoc. Fl. Jap. t. 34 {Jbeha). —hiVDh. 

 339.-ENDL. Gen. n. 3333.— H. Bn. Adansomti, Jown. Hart. Soe. Lond. i. 63 ; Bot. Beg. (1846) t. 

 i ■365.-B.H. Qen. ii. 4, n. 7.-Hk: tl. Lnd. iii. 8 {Abelia) ; (1847) t. 56 {Abelia). -Bot. Mag. t.- 

 8 - VesaUa Mart, et Gal. Bull. Ac. Br. xi_242.. 4316, 4694 {Jbelia).-WAi,T. Rep. u. 446 ; vi. 3 



* White, pink, red or lilac, sotnetimes sweet- {Abelia). 



