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LONICERA diversifolia. 
Various-leaved Fly Honeysuchle. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIACEX. 
LONICERA. Supra, vol. 14. £. 1179. 
$ Chamsecerasus ; baccis liberis, corollis basi viz gibbis. 
L. diversifolia ; erecta, dens? pubescens, foliis ovatis cordatisque oblongis 
acutis breviter petiolatis, floribus geminis et quaternatis pubescentibus 
subsessilibus omnind liberis, calyce cyathiformi 5-dentato, corolle tubo 
hinc convexo limbo breviore, filamentis basi villosis, 
L. diversifolia, Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. 169. DeCand. prodr. 4. 334. 
In many respects this Himalayan shrub is much like the 
common Fly Honeysuckle (L. Xylosteum); from which it 
principally differs in its flowers being nearly or quite stalkless, 
and much larger. Dr. Wallich first received it from the 
mountains of Gurwhal; he afterwards procured it from 
Kamaon ; according to Dr. Royle it is common on the moun- 
tains of the North of India. In a wild state it sometimes 
becomes small-leaved, and approaches the common Xylo- 
steum, but its stalkless flowers still distinguish it. 
By some mistake it is included by DeCandolle among 
his Nintooas, a set of climbing 2-flowered species which 
belong to the genus Caprifolium. 
This is a hardy middle sized shrub, which thrives in any 
good garden soil, and flowers during the months of May and 
June. It is easily increased by cuttings of the half ripe 
wood, if treated in the same way as those of the common 
Honeysuckle. It was raised from seeds received from Dr. 
Royle from the North of India. 
There is also in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 
where the accompanying drawing was made, another Indian 
species of this genus, very distinct from any thing hitherto 
