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Capri}oliacece 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 
