Tas. 8060. 
LONICERA pinata. 
Central and Western China. 
CaPRIFOLIACE&. Tribe LoNIcERm. 
Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5. 
Lonicera (§ Isika) pileata, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1585; Rehder in Rep. 
Missouri Bot, Gard., 1903, p. 76; a DL. ligustrina, Wall., differt imprimis 
foliis obtusioribus minoribus. ‘ 
Frutee ramosissimus, circa 1 ped. altus, ramis ramulisque horizontalibus 
tenuibus teretibus puberulis. Folia disticha, brevissime petiolata, oblongo- 
lanceolata, obtusa, glabra, sempervirentia, supra intense viridia, subtus 
pallidiora, 3-1 poll. longa, 3-5 lin. lata. Flores geminati. Pedunculi 
4 lin. longi. Bractexe herbacew, lanceolato-subulate, basi plicis duabus 
instructs, 1 lin. long; bracteole cupulatim connate, ovaria includentes 
glandulose. Calycis dentes breves, obtusi, marginibus glandulosis ; 
tubus superne duobus annulis cinctus in vaginam reversam supra bracteo- 
larum cupulam calyptratim productus. Corolla pallide flava, extus 
pilosa ; limbus subsqualis, patens, quam tubus gibbosus dimidio brevior; 
lobi ovato-rotundati. Stamina exserta, filamentis sabsqualibus pilosis. 
Stylus staminibus equilongus, pilosus. Ovaria glabra inter se libera.— 
L. ligustrina, var. pileata, Franchet in Journ. de Bot. x. p. 317. 
This Lonicera belongs to Rehder’s sub-section, Pileatx, 
which comprises two other species, viz. the Chinese 
L. gynochlamydea, Hemsl., and the Indian L. ligustrina, 
Wall. They are readily distinguished from all other 
members of the genus by a peculiar downward cap-like 
production of the calyx over the connate bracteoles. 
L. pileata is singular among cultivated Honeysuckles in 
having evergreen foliage, and in its habit, which is dwarf 
and spreading like that of Cotoneaster horizontalis. 
The plant from which the figure was drawn was pre- 
sented to Kew in 1902 by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 
who raised it from seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 
It is quite hardy, and flowers appear in April. 
The variety yunnanensis of Rehder differs only in the 
very small, suborbicular to broadly ovate, rather thick 
leaves. 
Descr.—A much-branched, low, horizontally spreading, 
evergreen shrub, about one foot high. Branches slender, 
terete, puberulous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
glabrous, dark green above, pale beneath, half to one inch 
Fepruary Isr, 1906. 
