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Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth regular or nearly so, straight 
or curved, the slender tube opening equally or along the lower side 
only, the limb ovoid-oblong or linear, the laminae remaining long 
coherent, or rarely separating as the tube opens. Anthers narrow, 
sessile in the concave laminae, the connective thick, usually very shortly 
produced beyond the cells. Tlypogynoua scales 4, very thin and 
membranous (rarely deficient ?). Ovary very small audses.'ilo; stylo 
usually longer than the perianth, rigid, curved, and protruding from 
the slit in the periauth-tuhe until the end is set free by the separation 
of the lamiuie, and then either straightened or remaining hooked or 
curved, rarely straight from the first, and not exceeding the perianth ; 
the stigmatic end on a level with the anthers, of a different texture 
but smooth, or striate and furrowed, continuous with the style or with 
a prominent rim at tbe base, the real stigma sma’l and terminal; 
ovules 2, collaterally attached above the middle. Fruit a compressed 
capsule, opening at the broad end (or rather outer margin, for the 
scar of the stjde is lateral) in 2 hard often woody horizontal valves. 
Seeds usually 2, compressed, with a termiual membranous wing broad 
and rounded like the valves, the seeds separated by a plate of the same 
shape (the consolidated outer integuments of the inner side of the 2 
seeds), free from the ripe seeds, simple (completely consolidated) 
between the nuclei, double (remaining distinct) between the wings. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely verticilhite or nearly so, 
usually narrow, entire toothed, piunatilid or pinnate, witli numerous 
(rarely few) short lobes or segments, the primary veins numerous and 
transverse, rarely inconspicuous or irregular, and the miuute reticula- 
tions numerous on the under surface, with a minute tomentum rarely 
wanting in the areola?, 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; cacli pair of 
flowers subtended by 1 bract and 2 lateral rather smaller bracteoles, 
both bracts and bracteoles densely woolly-villous on both sides, 
the tips glabrous tomentose or villous, either ciarate and obtuse 
or truncate, or shortly acuminate, always densely imbricate iu p.arallel 
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 eousolidated with the rhacliis 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 indehisceut portion con- 
taining the nuclei of the seeds reuiaining 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 youtig branches 
closely tomentoge. Leaves scattered, sometimes irregularly verticillate, 
oblong cuneate or lanceolate, quite entire or irregularly toothed, 
tai)eriiig into a short ]}etiole, 3 to 4 inches long iu some specimens, 
twice that length in others, especially the Northern ones, i to near 
