icera.] LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 18 
ithout; lobes short, purple. Style sparsely pilose. Fruit usually of two confluent 
upes, } in. diam., globose, black. Seeds many or few.—Hoyle's specimens have the 
leaves and flowers more hairy: the number of seeds varies on the same branch. 
12. L. angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 480; leaves lanceolate white beneath, 
uucles 1-1 in., bracts 4—4 in. linear or linear-lanceolate, bracteoles connate 
ften half as long as the fruit, calyx-limb distinctly 5-toothed. DC. Prodr. iv. 
37 ; Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. iii. 238, with a fig.; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. 
oc. ii. 167; Brandis For. Fl. 255. 
Temperate Himalaya; from Kasumir and Kumaon, alt. 6—12,000 ft., frequent, to 
Sram; Lachen, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H. 
A shrub, 6-12 ft.; branchlets glabrescent. Leaves 1} by } in. (nearly j in. broad 
in Sikkim sp.), narrowed at both ends, beneath pubescent or glabrous; petiole à in. 
Bracts linear or foliaceous, Corolla-tube } by de in., glabrous or pubescent, subequal ; 
lobes hardly i in., white or rose. Style short, glabrous. Fruit usually of two con- 
fluent drupes, } in. diam., globose; calyx-limb often subpersistent. Seeds few. 
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| 18. L. rupicola, H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 168; leaves oblong 
tomentose beneath, peduncles hardly any, bracteoles small quadrate distinct 
Obsolete in the fruit, calyx-teeth A in. narrow-lanceolate pubescent. 
Eastern Tirer (North of Sikkim), alt. 16-17.000 ft., J. D. H. Rimkim, WESTERN 
Trser (North of Kumaon), alt. 13,500 ft., Strach. £ Winterb. 
rigid shrub, 2-4 ft. ; branchlets pubescent, becoming leafless and subspinescent. 
es + by 2 in., subobtuse at both ends, nearly glabrous above ; petiole = in. Bracts 
, linear-obovate, often subfoliaceous, tomentose beneath. Corolla-tube 4 by  in., 
scent; lobes } in. broad-oblong, spreading. Style short, glabrous. Berries $-} in., 
soid, not confluent in pairs, crowned by the long calyx-teeth. 
4. L. spinosa, Jacquem. ms.; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc, ii. 168; 
glabrous, leaves small narrow-oblong, peduncles hardly any, bracteoles quadrate 
connate inconspicuous in fruit, calyx-teeth 3; in. narrow-oblong obtuse. Xylos- 
spinorum, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 78, t. 86. 
LPINE HiwALAYA, alt. 11—16,000 ft.; from Kasmmır to Tibet north of Srxx1w. 
srRIB. Kashgar. 
rigid shrub, 2-4 ft. ; branchlets glaucous, often leafless and spinescent. Leaves 
12 in. obtuse, margins recurved, base narrowed; petiole hardly any. Flowers 
sWhsciculate ; bracts 3-1 in., linear-oblong. Corolla-tube 4-3 by 75-4 in., glabrous, 
ec, aal. lobes 4 in., elliptic. Style glabrous, exserted. Berries i by ¢ in., ellip- 
sc not confluent in pairs, crowned by the subpersistent calyx-limb. 
|15. E. parvifolia, Edgw. in Wall. Cat. 9058, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xx. 60; leaves small oblong or obovate glabrous, peduncles 4-4 in., bracts 4-3 in. 
oblbng or ovate foliaceous, corolla-tube not widened upwards, style included. 
H. f. A T. in Journ. Linn, Soc, ii. 168. L. depressa, Royle IU. 226. 
Alpine Himalaya; Kumaon; Blinkworth; Pindari, alt. 12,000 ft., Strachey 4 
Winterbottom. Srxxrm; alt. 12-14,000 ft., Lachen and Lama Kangra, J. D. H. 
E small, rigid, nearly glabrous, shrub; branches often prostrate. Leaves 4 by 3-4 
ol obtuse, base cuneate rarely obtuse; petiole 3, in. Bracteoles connate, often nearly 
as long us the ovary, inconspicuous in fruit. Calyx glabrous; teeth minute, trian- 
gular. Corolla-tube + by X in. exactly cylindric, equal, glabrous without, hairy 
wit, ^w: teeth Ae in., round, pink-purple. Style short, glabrous. Berries 1 by 1 in., 
ellid, not confluent in pairs; seeds few. 
| Var. Myrtillus, H. f. & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 168 (sp.); bracts linear- 
oblong or sublinear. Brandis For. Fl. 255.— Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 8-12,000 ft. 
Sikkim; alt. 11-14,000 ft., Lachen, J. D. H. 
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