10 LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Lonicera. 
them, capitate or panicled. Bracts linear or small. Corolla 2-lipped. Berry 
crowned with the calyx-teeth. 
In the simple lateral peduncles the bracts are undistinguishable from floral 
leaves: in the paniculate inflorescence of L. japonica the bracts are small linear. 
l. L. Leschenaultii, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 
178 ; Cat. 471; leaves ovate or oblong, beneath and calyx grey tomentose, 
corolla long closely pubescent. DC. Prodr. iv. 334; Wight Til. ii. t. 120 
and 121 B.; W. $ A. Prodr. 380; H f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc, ii. 173, not 
of Mig. L. mollis, Wight TU. ii. 71; Wall. Cat, 6301, 
Deccan Mrs., alt. 5-8000 ft. ; Wight, &c. 
Branchlets tomentose. Leaves 13-21 by 1-1} in., acute or rounded, base cordate 
or obtuse, above glabrous or puberulous on the impressed nerves ; petiole Ä in. Flowers 
in shortened panicles ; floral leaves }-1 in., petioled, ovate ` bracts linear, 4-4 in. ; 
bracteoles ovate, minuto, Calyx-teeth 31. in. linear. Corolla-tuhe 1-14 in., hairy 
within. Style glabrous or nearly so.—Rarely the pairs of flowers are solitary, when 
= elongate floral leaves which are close beneath the flower have been described as 
racts. 
2. L. glabrata, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 175; 
Cat. 474; leaves cordate-oblong acute coriaceous glabrous or nearly so rarely 
villous beneath, bracts A. 2 in. lanceolate, calyx glabrous or nearly so, corolla 
glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 334; H. f. §& T.in Journ, Linn, Soc. ii. 172, excl. 
syn. L. ovata, Ham. 
Temperate Himalaya, alt. 4-8000 ft.; from Nirar to Buoran; Wallich, &c. 
Branchlets glabrous, or closely pubescent. Leaves 3 by 1j in.; nerves glabrolis 
or pilose or villous beneath; petiole 4-1 in. | Flower-spikes short, often panicled ; 
floral leaves gradually reduced, sometimes minutely pilose above, the uppermost 
lanceolate, sessile; bracteoles ovate, minute. Calyx-tube somewhat glaucous, rarely 
slightly hairy; teeth A in, lanceolate. — Corolla-tube j in. rarely with a few se: 
tered hairs without, hairy within. Style glabrous, or with scattered hairs. 
Griffith’s specimens from East Bhotan have the leaves very villous beneath. 
3. L. macrantha, DC. Prodr. iv. 933; leaves cordate-oblong acu 
coriaceous villous beneath, floral usually greatly reduced, calyx-teeth hairy 
fruit, corolla-lobes hirsute in bud white fading to yellow. Benth. FL. Hong 
144; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 269; Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Peters 
Mel. Biol. x. 58. L. japonica, Wall. Cat. 478, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 
Wall. ii. 174; H. f. § T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 171, not of Linn. Caprif. 
folium macranthum and japonicum, Don Prodr. 140. 
Temperate Himalaya from Nat, to Buotan, alt, 6-10,000 ft., frequent. Kasia 
Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft. d 
Leaves 2} by 1 in., glabrescent or pilose on the surface above. Peduncles in sub- 
terminal panicles; upper floral leaves usually linear-laneeolate. Bracts 3-4 in, 
linear; bracteoles very small. Calya-tube glaucous, glabrous. Corolla-tube #14 in. 
L. japonica, L., which is very closely allied, differs in the less coriaceous leaves, usually 
petioled ovate or spathulate floral leaves, more or less hairy calyx-tube, and less hir- 
sute unexpanded pink or reddish corolla. 
4. L. acuminata, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind, ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 472 ; 
leaves oblong cordate acute, bracts 3-4 in. linear, calyx-tube glabrous, corolla 
tube hairy lobes pubescent or glabrous, style densely fulvous hairy. Wall. Cat. 
472; DC. Prodr. iv. 384. L. Loureirii, H. f. §& T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 172. 
not of DC, 
