giving it a place any where. 'The flowers are sometimes 
yellow, and not of a tawny purple, as in the present sort; 
which is however the only one we have seen. It has been 
called media, by Professor Murray (who was niot aware that 
it was the dioica of Linneus), from having a corolla of a 
length between that of the others of the two sections into 
which the genus is divided, viz. the Periclymema and the 
Chamecerasa. Nor can we account for the name of dioica, 
upon better grounds; technically it should indeed imply, 
that the species had flowers with only stamens, and others 
with only pistils, on distinct individuals. But as this is not 
the case here, we are induced to suspect, that dioica was 
meant in this instance to designate a species with a flower, 
partaking of the nature of that of both the above divi- 
sions of Lonicera. Michaux's name of bracteosum has 
been suggested by his assuming the Jarge connate leaf near- 
est the inflorescence for its bracte or involucre; but the 
real bractes being all very small and inconspicuous, it isa ' 
name too liable to mislead, and certainly inexact. 
The specimens we have seen have not exceeded four or 
five feet, with a very short stem or trunk, dividing into 
several branches, and having an epidermis splitting in longi- 
tudinal clefts. The leaf nearest the flower is connate and per- 
foliate, those below sessile and opposite, ovate, oblong, en- 
tirely patent, from three to six inches long, white under- 
neath; peduncles terminating the branches and branchlets. 
Inflorescence distant from the nearest pair of leaves, and 
consisting of 2-4 capitately approximated several-flowered 
whorls, with two shallow broad bractes below each. The 
corolla is little more than half an inch long; tube thick 
short didymously rotuberant outwards at the base; the 
two segments of the lower lip of the limb divaricate and 
rolled spirally, Filaments pubescent. Berry orange 
scarlet. , 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs Whit- 
tey, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. 
