Tas. 7677. 
LONICERA HIitpEsranDIana, 
Native of the Shan Hills, and Munnepore. 
Nat. Ord. CapriroLtiacE#.—Tribe LoNIcEREs. 
Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) 
Lonicera (Xylosteum) Hildebrandii; frutex glaberrimus, alte scandens, 
ramis ramulisque teretibus, foliis amplis breviter petiolatis late ovatis 
ovalibus v. orbiculari-oblongis cuspidatis, remote glandulosis, basi rotun- 
datis vy. acutis et in petiolum decurrentibus, supra lete viridibus subtus 
pallidis, nervis utrinque costw 4-5, pesiolo ad }-poll. longo, floribus 
geminis pedunculo tereti petiolo subduplo longiore, bracteis dentiformibus, 
bracteolis minutis ciliolatis, calycis tubo oblongo, limbo 5-dentato, corolle 
tubo 4 poll. longo cylindraceo, limbi bilabiati tubo triente breviore, 
labiis revolutis, superiore cuneiformi 4-fido lobis apice incurvis, inferiore 
anguste lineari, filamentis gracilibus sparsim puberulis, antheris versatili- 
bus lunatis, stylo glaberrimo, stigmate capitato. : 
L. Hildebrandiana, Coll. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. (1891) 
pp. 6 and 64, t. xi. N. H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. ii. p. 210, fig. 
58. Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 317. 
It is remarkable that by far the largest flowered species 
of Rose and of Honeysuckle, both almost exclusively 
genera of temperate climates, should inhabit the same 
country, and that a thoroughly tropical one (lat. 21° N.). 
The Rose, Rosa gigantea, Collett, has not hitherto flowered 
in England, though it has been in cultivation since 1888, 
when it was introduced by seed collected by Col. Sir H. 
Collett, K.C.B., in the Shan hills. Its discoverer was Dr. 
George Watt, F.L.S., who found it in Munnepore in 1882. 
Lonicera Hildebrandiana, of which also Sir H. Collett 
is the discoverer, has proved more amenable; _ it 
flowered with Mr. Moore, A.L.S., in the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Glasnevin, in August, 1898; and profusely in 
the new south wing of the Temperate House of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in the present year. The plant in the 
latter case was received in 1894 from A. H, Hildebrand 
Hsq., C.I.E. Its nearest ally is L. Braceana, Hemal, 
(Journ, Linn. Soe. I.c. in footnote) a native of the Khasia 
hills, at elevations of 3000 to 5600 ft., which differs in 
the much smaller, narrower, acutely acuminate, longer 
OcroBEer Ist, 1899, 
