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TREES AND SHRUBS 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family. 



Shrubs, trees, woody vines, or rarely low herbs, with opposite 

 exstipulate leaves and perfect flowers variously arranged in axillary 

 pairs or axil ary or terminal cymes: hypanthium adnate to the 2 to 

 5-celled ovary, calyx of 4 or 5 sepals: corolla rotate, tubular or fun- 

 nelfonn. sometimes bilabrate, lobe- 4 or 5 imbricated, stamens 4 or 

 5, sometimes partly adnate to the coro la. alternate with the lobes; 

 ovary 2 to 5-celled. inferior: fruit a berry or a drupe 



Corolla rotate; style deeply 3- to 5-cleft. short; 



inflorescence compound cymose: fnU* <irup- 



aceous (shrubs). 

 Corolla tube long: tubular, campanulate, funnel- 



rorm or salver form, sometimes two-lipped, 



never rotate; style slender, undivided: in- 



florenscence simple, few-flowered; fruit dry 



or berry like. 



Corolla regular, tubular, funnel form; fruit 2- 



seeded. 

 Corolla broadly funnelform, more or less bi- 

 labiate or nearly regular; fruit few to 

 many seeded. 

 Upper leaves connate perfoliate; flowers 

 mostly in terminal clusters, pseudo- 

 verticellate or crowded: corolla not sac- 

 cate at the base. 

 Upper leaves not connate; flowers axillary, 

 in pairs, sessile on the end of a com- 

 mon peduncle, subtended by bracts; 

 corolla conspicuously saccate at the base. 

 Bracts or bractlets very small and in- 

 conspicuous; green; not accrescent. 

 Bracts fonaceous. and bractlets accres- 

 cent, reddish brown. 



Saubucl-* 



Sy mphop.icarpvs. 



3. LONICERA. 



Xylosteok. 

 ijistegia. 



I. SAMBUCUS L. Elder 



Shrubs or trees with soft wood, large pith, opposite pinnate- 



ly compound leaves with large leaflets, and small white or ochroleucus 



flowers in terminal compound cymes: hypanthium turbinate or ovoid; 



sepaU 3 to 5, equal; corolla rotate, with 3 to 5 equal, imbricated, or 



rarely valvate lobes; stamens 5 adnate to the base of the corolla, 



anthers opening extrorsely by clefts; ovary 3 to 5-celled becommg 



a l-'seeded drupe like fruit. 



Cyme not flat-topped, thyrsoid-panlculate, the 

 axis continuous. 

 Fruit oil: cymes in flower seldom more than 



4 ?m. broad. 1. 8. microbotrvs. 



Fruit black: cymes larger. 6 cm. wide or more. 2. ..S. melanocarpa. 



