64 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
Lonicera ($ Xylosteum) Hildebrandiana, Coll. et Hemsl., 
n.sp. (Plate XI.) 
Frutex erectus ? undique glaberrimus, ramulis floriferis reetis 
teretibus rubentibus. Folia longiuscule petiolata, papyracea, 
late ovata, cum petiolo 4-5 poll. longa, abrupte acuminata, 
simul obtusa, basi rotundata, venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 
4-5, lamina secus petiolum anguste decurrenti. Flores geminati, 
usque ad 7 poll. longi, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis vix 3 lineas 
longis, bracteolis squamæformibus; calycis limbus cupularis, 
obtuse dentatus; corolla leviter curvata, alte bilabiata, labium 
superius alte 4-lobatum, suberectum, lobis rotundatis leviter 
undulatis; stamina inclusa, filamentis puberulis; stylus brevior, 
stigmate capitato. Fructus pomaceus, ovoideus, pollicaris. 
Shan hills at 5000 feet; only one plant was seen. 
This is beyond comparison much the largest-flowered species 
hitherto described *. 
We have named this Zonicera after Mr. Hildebrand, who 
was Superintendent of the Southern Shan States, and kindly 
gave much assistance in collecting. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XI. 
Lonicera Hildebrandiana, Coll. et. Hemsl.—Flowering and 
fruiting branchlets ; natural size. 
Fig. 1, upper portion of stamen; 2, stigma. Enlarged. 
RuniAcEX. 
Stephegyne parvifolia, Aorth.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 29; 
Forest Fl. Burma, ii. p. 66, sub Nauclea.— Meiktila. 
From the Punjab to Ceylon and Burma. 
Stephegyne diversifolia, Hook. f.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 26; 
Forest Fl. Burma, ii. p. 67.—Shan bills, Aplin. 
Eastern India and Malaya to the Philippine islands. 
* In the Kew Herbarium are specimens of a Lonicera closely allied to the 
above, which may be named Z. Braceana, Hemsl., after Mr. L. J. K. Brace; 
formerly Curator of the Caleutta herbarium, who first pointed out that it was 
undeseribed.— Species ab L. Hildebrandiana differt foliis magis carnosis 
oblongo-lanceolatis, petiolo longiore, floribus minoribus (maximis 4-polli- 
caribus), calycis dentibus magis evolutis acutis, corolla labio superiore breviter 
4-lobato.—Khasia mountains, L. J. K. Brace and C. B. Clarke. Specimens 
also received from Mr. F. Sander, of St. Albans, labelled ** Assam.” 
