Lonicera. | LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACERZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 11 
Temperate Himalaya from Na, Wallich, to Srxx1w, alt. 7-11,000 ib pda 
e. 
Branchlets hairy. Leaves 4 by 14-13 in., with scattered hairs on both surfaces, or 
glabrescent; petiole 1 in. hairy. Inflorescence in terminal many-flowered heads, and 
also often axillary 2-flowered peduncles ; floral leaves gradually reduced, the uppermost 
linear-lanceolate, bracteiform ` bracteoles 3 in., subquadrate, ciliate. Calya-teeth gla- 
brate or ciliate in fruit. Corolla-tube 4 in., funnel-shaped.—L. Loureirii, from Java ? 
differs in the glabrous corolla-tube and style. 
5. L. ovata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6300 ; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong ob- 
tuse membranous nearly glabrous, bracts dÄ in. ovate-lanceolate, calyx-tube 
glabrous, corolla-tube i in. very slender glabrous, style hairy. Lonicera sp., 
Griff. Journ, 90. 
Assam; Hamilton, Masters.—DisrRiB. Birma. 
A slenderer plant, with much smaller flowers than in Z. glabrata. Branchlets 
pubescent. Leaves 1} by 3-1 in., base rounded or subcordate, minutely pilose on both 
surfaces or glabrescent; petiole 3-1 in. Upper peduncles in terminal panicle; brac- 
teoles minute, ovate. Flowers white, fading to yellow. Caly«-feeth glabrous or 
eiliolate. 
. Sugeen. II. Kylosteum, DO. Erect. Peduncles not panicled. Calyx- 
limb deciduous (in L. asperifolia; L. rupicola and others, subpersistent). 
* Bracts large, ovate; bracteoles 0 or minute, 
. L. hispida, Pall.; DC. Prodr. iii, 338; glabrous or hairy, leaves 
elliptic-oblong, peduncles 3-1 in., bracts obovate-elliptie boat-shaped hardly 
conhate. Ledeb. Fi. Ross. ii. 389, Ic. t. 212; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
ii. 165. L. bracteata, Royle Ill. 237, t. 53. 
Temperate and alpine HIMALAYA, alt. 9-13,000 ft.; from Kasumir to Kumaon, 
freqhent. Sixx1M, alt. 13-15,000 ft., J. D. H—Duisrrip. Central Asia, Siberia. 
. Branchlets hispid-pilose or glabrescent. Leaves lj by $ in., subobtuse, base 
vounded, hairy on both surfaces or glabrescent ; petiole gin. Zracís j-$ in., hispid 
ciliate or glabrescent. Corolla-tube 4 by } in., often hairy ; lobes 1-j in., rounded, 
pin Style glabrous or with scattered hairs. Drwpes more than 1 by 1 in., ellipsoid, 
Cf uent, or entirely separate. Cf. Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. Mel. Biol. x. 73.— 
edingly variable as to hairiness; the branchlets, leaves and braets are some- 
tilts absolutely glabrous, and the leaves subscabrid beneath. 
. L. glauca, H të T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 166, not of Meerb. ; 
leaves small oblong obtuse glabrous hispidly ciliolate, peduncle hardly any, 
bracts 4-4 in. ovate flat, calyx-limb deciduous. 
Temperate N.W. HriwALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, 12-16,000 ft. ; Nubra, Zanskar 
and Piti, Thomson; Tilail in Kashmir, C. B. C. ; Gurwhal and Kumaon, Strach. d 
Winterb. 
A glaucous, densely-branched, wiry undershrub, glabrous except as to the margins. 
of the leaves. Leaves $ by } in., obtuse, base hardly rounded; petiole Je in. Bracts 
glaucous, hispidly ciliate on the margins, usually free, or when the fruits coalesce 
Sowetimes much connate. Calyx glabrous, or nearly so. Corolla-tube 3-4 by $ in., 
rous; lobes } in., elliptic, yellow. Style glabrous. Berry $ by $ in., ellipsoid, 
irs sometimes confluent into a spherical fruit. (Both confluent and non-confluent 
Tries occur on one branch.) 
8, L. asperifolia, H. Le & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 166 ; leaves ovate- 
die subcordate, margin erisped and hispid, peduncle 0—j in., bracts ovate 
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