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LONICERA discolor. 
Stained Fly Honeysuckle. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIACEE. — (CaPmiroins, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 766.) 
LONICERA.—Desf.—Calyx tubo ovato v. subgloboso, cum ovario 
connato, limbo supero, brevi, quinquedentato, persistente v. deciduo. Corolla 
supera, tubulosa, campanulata v. infundibuliformis, tubo sequali v. basi hinc 
gibbo, limbo quinquefido, regulari v. ringente. Stamina 5, corolle tubo 
inserta, exserta v. inclusa. Ovarium inferum, tri-biloculare. Ovula in 
loculis plura, ex angulo centrali pendula, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma 
capitatum. Bacca carnosa, trilocularis v. dissipimentis demum obliteratis 
unilocularis, oligosperma. Semina inversa, crustacea. Embryo in axi albu- 
minis carnosi brevis, orthotropus ; cotyledonibus ellipticis, radicula umbilico 
proxima, supera. Frutices erecti v. scandentes, in hemisphere borealis 
regionibus extratropicis temperatis et calidioribus obvii, inter tropicos Asia et 
America rari; foliis oppositis, petiolatis v. sessilibus, interdum connatis, in- 
tegris v. in eadem specie subruncinatis, floribus axillaribus varie dispositis.— 
Endl. gen. no. 3337. 
$ Isıka, Adans.—Bacce in unicam biumbilicatam omnino concrete, 
Caules erecti, dumosi.— Endl. l. c. 
L. discolor; glaberrima, foliis petiolatis oblongis acutis subtüs glaucis, pe- 
dunculis foliis dimidio brevioribus, calyce 5-dentato glandulis ciliato, 
corollae tubo hinc valdé convexo discolore limbo multó breviore. — Lindl. 
. in Bot. Reg. 1844. sub t. 33. 
Among the plants collected under the common name of 
Lonicera, is a set of species remarkable for the ovaries of 
two contiguous flowers so entirely growing together, that to 
the eye there seems but one; and when they fruit, the berry 
which they bear has all the appearance of being simple, 
until the eye rests upon the calyx, which is found to be double. 
These curious shrubs Adanson separated from Lonicera, 
under the name of Isika, and it is, we think, to be regretted 
that his views have not been followed. We shall not, how- 
ever, disturb the existing nomenclature, which may serve the 
purpose. The plant now figured, is one recently introduced 
from India, through the East India Company, by whom the 
