_Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no (genuine) stipules, the calyx-tube coherent with the 2--5-celled ovary, the stamens as many as_ (one fewer in Linnæa, doubled in Adoxa) _the lobes of the tubular or rotate corolla, and inserted on its tube._--Fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1--several-seeded. Seeds anatropous, with small embryo in fleshy albumen. Tribe I. SAMBUCEÆ. Corolla wheel-shaped or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-lobed. Stigmas 3--5, sessile or nearly so. Inflorescence terminal and cymose. [*] Dwarf herb, with stamens doubled and flowers in a capitate cluster. 1. Adoxa. Fruit a dry greenish drupe, with 3--5 cartilaginous nutlets. Cauline leaves a single pair and ternate. [*][*] Shrubs, with stamens as many as corolla-lobes and flowers in broad compound cymes. 2. Sambucus. Fruit berry-like, containing three small seed-like nutlets. Leaves pinnate. 3. Viburnum. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe, with a compressed stone. Leaves simple. Tribe II. LONICEREÆ. Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped. Style slender; stigma capitate. [*] Herbs, with axillary flowers. 4. Triosteum. Stamens 5. Corolla gibbous at the base. Fruit a 3-celled drupe. Erect; flowers sessile. 5. Linnæa. Stamens 4, one fewer than the lobes of the corolla. Fruit dry, 3-celled, but only 1-seeded. Creeping, with long-pedunculate twin flowers. [*][*] Erect or climbing shrubs, with scaly winter-buds. 6. Symphoricarpos. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped regular corolla. Berry 4-celled, but only 2-seeded; two of the cells sterile. 7. Lonicera. Stamens 5, as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irregular corolla. Berry several-seeded; all the 2 or 3 cells fertile. 8. Diervilla. Stamens 5. Corolla funnel-form, nearly regular. Pod 2-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded, slender. 1. ADÓXA, L. MOSCHATEL. Calyx-tube reaching not quite to the summit of the 3--5-celled ovary; limb of 3 or more teeth. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4--6-cleft, bearing at each sinus a pair of separate or partly united stamens with 1-celled anthers. Style 3--5-parted. Dry drupe greenish, with 3--5 cartilaginous nutlets.--A dwarf perennial herb with scaly rootstock and ternately divided leaves, the cauline a single pair. An anomalous genus. (From ἄδοξος, obscure or insignificant.) 1. A. Moschatéllina, L. Smooth, musk-scented; radical leaves 1--3-ternate, the cauline 3-cleft or 3-parted; leaflets obovate, 3-cleft; flowers several in a close cluster on a slender peduncle, greenish or yellowish.--N. Iowa, Wisc., and Minn., and northward. (Eu., Asia.) 2. SAMBÙCUS, Tourn. ELDER.