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LONICERA japonica. 

 Japanese Honeysuckle, 







PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Lonicera. Supra fol. 31. 



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L. japonica, sempervirens, viliosa; pedunculis solitariis, bifloris, a\il- 

 laribus, racemoso-approximatis ; floribus Iongis, ringentibus : foliis 

 omnibus distinctis. 



Lonicera japonica. Thanh, jap. 89. Sj/st. veg. Murr. ed. 14. <2lG. 

 Willd. sp.pl. 1. 985. Andrews s reposit. 583. llort. Ken. ed. 2. 1. 



Lonicera Periclynienuni. Lour, cochin. 150; (nee aliorum). 

 Nin too; it£m Sin too, vulg5 Sui Kadsura ; et ex colore, Kin gin qua, 

 i. e. auri argentique flores appellata. Periclymeniim vulgare; s. enpri- 



folium non perfoliatuin baccis atropurpureis v. nigris. K&mpf. a much. 

 785. 



Frutex orgyam ultrave ascendens, ramosus, vittoso-hirsutus, voluhilis. 

 Folia perennantia, subcordato-ovata, attenuata, acutiuscula, viliosa, reticulata- 

 venosa, subtiis cinerascentia, 1 ad 2 uncias cum dimidio longa, \ad \\ trans- 



Jl 

 semunciales magtsv'e. Ramuli t floriferi, oppositi, axillares. Flores in raccmos 



Jbliosos laxe decussatos approximate terminates: pedunculi bifori,a longiori- 



bus petiolo senstm brevissimi, in axillis foliorum diminutorum inter dam in 



bracteas descrescentium solitarii: sammi duo modo in quadri/lorum coadunati. 



Cal. brevis, acute 3-dentatus, arctus, ductus bracteis 2 oppositis rotundis 



ciliatis : ipsis alia subulata longiore in sensu contrario directa suffultis. Cor. 



ex argenteo-candicante aureo-jlavescens, sesquiuncialis, cequabUiter tubulata, 



angusta, divaricato-bilabiata labio altero 3-plo latiore trifido, extus deme 



viliosa pilisque capitatis conspersa. Stigma viride, pileato<apitatum. 



A native Honeysuckle of China and Japan, where, ac- 

 cording to Kempfer, it is known by tlte name of " Gold 

 and Silver Flowers;" the corolla changing- from a silvery 

 white to a golden yellow. Its mode of growth is similar to 

 the common Honeysuckle of our hedges ; and can be no 

 "where seen to such advantage as planted in the border of a 

 conservatory, where a proper support to wind its long 

 branches upon has been provided. About the middle of 

 summer a profusion of bloom appears, of the richest fra- ^ 



grance ; the odour not of the kind afforded by the european 

 species, but rather approaching that of the Orange-flower, 



the Tuberose, and Cape Jasmine. It is evergreen, and co- 

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