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LONICERA HTRUSCA Var. SUPERBA. 
Native of the Mediterranean region. 
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Nat. Ord. CarriroLtiace®.—Tribe LonicEREa. — 
Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) 
Lonicura etrusca; frutex alte scandens, ramosissimus, caulibus glabris 
primum purpureis teretibus, foliis obovatis vel supremis fere orbiculari- 
bus 2 poll. longis 2 poll. latis integris supra et ad nervos subtus sparse 
pulbescentibus superioribus basi connatis, capitulis floram sepins ternis 
terminalibas circa 12-foris, floribus biais involucro quadrilubo cinctis, 
calyce viridi 1 lin. longi lobis deltoideis acutis, corolla primum straminea 
demum aurantiaca, tubo 1 poll. longo tubuloso-infundibulifor.ni, labio 
postice 5 lin. longo 4 lin. lato ad quartam partem in lobos 4 ovatos im- 
bricatoe diviso, labio antico oblongo 7 lin. longo 1} lin. lato, staminibus 
longe exsertis, stylo filifurmi, baccis rubris. ; 
L. etrusca, Santi, Viagg. al Montiam. vol. i. p. 113, tab. 1 (1795); Savi. Fl. 
Pis. vol. i. (1798) p. 236; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 331; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
vol. xvii. tab. 1172; Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 332; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iti. p. 5; Nym. Consp. Fl. Hur. ed. 2, p. 321; 
_ W. Watson in Gard. Chron, 1998, vol. ii. p. 231; Rehder in Rep. Missouri 
_ Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. (1903), p. 194. ee Bs 
L. hetrusea, Host, Fi. Austr. vol. i. p. 298; Bub. Fl. Pyren. vol. ii. p. 335. 
L. gigantea, Hort. ex Carritre in Rev. Hort. 1882, p. 558; var. superba, 
Hort. ee W. Wutson, in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 281. 
L. Charlotti, Hort. ex Watson, lc. — ae < 
Caprifolium Periclymenum, Gouan, Hort. Monsp. p. 101 (1768), non Linn, 
C. etruscum, Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. vol. v. p. 261. 
C, dimorphum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 274. 
Amongst about a dozen species of Lonicera figured in 
this work, the present one most nearly resembles the 
North American Z. flava, Sims (t. 1818), which differs in 
having solitary flower-heads and a shorter, less slender, 
corolla-tube. Rehder’s monograph (loc. sup. cit.) contains 
about 150 well-marked species belonging to this genus, 
grouped in two subgenera, viz. :—Chamecerasus, having 
two-flowered, axillary cymes and leaves never united at 
the base, and Periclymenum, having terminal, usually 
three-flowered cymes collected into whorls or spikes and 
at least the upper leaves connate by their bases. | 
L. etrusca, which belongs to the latter of these sub- 
genera, was mentioned by Gouan (under the name of 
October Ist, 1904, 
