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Capr'ifoliacecE or Honey Suckle Family. — Shrubs or rarely herbs. 
Leaves entire, opposite, exstipulate or with delicate, attenuate or 
filiform stipules. Inflorescence varying from a raceme of shortened 
cymes to a capitulum. Flowers varying from regular and small 
(. Sambucus , Viburnum, etc.) to increasingly large, slightly irregular 
and ultimately very irregular in some Loniceras and in a few Weige- 
las and allies; calyx pentamerous, superior; corolla superior, gamo- 
petalous, limb pentafid, small, in Viburnum and Sambucus to elon- 
gate, tubular or irregular infundibuliform in Loniceras; stamens 
five, inserted on tube of corolla and alternating with corolla seg- 
ments; filaments equal or didynamous (in irregular flowers); ovary 
inferior, rarely five- to three-celled, usually three- or frequently two- 
celled; style terminal. Fruit a berry ( Viburnum ) from an inferior 
ovary, several celled, occasionally becoming one-celled with several 
to rarely one seed, or fruit a capsule ( Diervilla , Weigelia). Seeds 
albuminous. 
Official drug Part used Botanical origin Habitat 
Sambucus N.F. Flowers 
Viburnum 
Prunifolium 
Bark 
Viburnum Opulus Bark 
N.F. 
VI. Order Campanulales. — Cucurbitacece or Gourd Family. — Her- 
baceous, very often annual ( Colocynth , etc.), more rarely perennial 
{Bryonia, etc.), sometimes shrubby plants, the perennial and shrubby 
forms perennating by swollen roots some of which are heavy and 
tuberous. Stems very usually grooved and ridged, often provided 
with roughened and barbed hairs. Tendrils are frequently produced 
in the axils of leaves from tendril axillary buds (Pumpkin, Colocynth, 
Watermelon, Cucumber, Bryony, etc.). Leaves varying from 
entire, simple, usually deltoid to triangular through stages of trilo- 
bate, pentalobate, deeply palmatifid to palmatipartite to seldom ap- 
proaching compound (Colocynth). Venation in nearly all cases pal- 
mate. Leaves thin, herbaceous, much expanded, often hairy. Vas- 
cular bundles of petioles, branches and stems, bicollateral. Inflo- 
