Tab. 5709. 

 LONICEBA Standishii. 



Standistis Honeysuckle. 



Nat. Ord. Caprieoliacejd.— Pentandbia Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovoideus v. subglobosus, lirabus breyis, 5-den- 

 tatus, deciduus v. persistens. Corolla tubulosa, infundibuliforrms v. cam- 

 panulata, basi gibba v. sequalis, limbi 2-labiati obliqui v. ranus symmetnci 

 lobi 5. Stamina 5, tubo corolla) inserta, antherae mclusse v. exserte. 

 Ovarium 2-3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, stigmate capitato ; ovula in locuhs 

 numerosa, angulo interiore 2-seriatim inserta. Bacca carnosa, 2-3-loculans, 

 v.ob septa evanida 1-locularis, loculis oligospermis. Semina ovoidea v. 

 oblonga, testa Crustacea.— Frutices erecti v. scandentes, hemisphatrii bore- 

 alis incola, gemmis squamosis. Folia opposite, Integra vel ranus lobata. 

 Flores in cymas v. capitida pedunculata dispositi. 



Loniceka Standishii; erecta, virgata, ramulis subflexuosis scaberuhs, setis 

 retrorsis deciduis hispidis, foliis deciduis breviter petiolatis anguste 

 ovato-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve acuminatis ciliatis superne gia- 

 berrimis subtus secus nervos petioloque setulosis, pedunculis brevibus 

 retrorsum bispidis 2-floris, bracteis lanceolato-subulatis, ovarns glaDris 

 connatis, corolla alb* tubo brevi basi gibbo, limbi 2-labiati labus tubo 

 multo longioribus, superiore quadrato -t-fido, inferiore anguste oblongo. 

 omnibus obtusis. 



This charming, fragrant, early-flowering Honeysuckle has 

 been for some time in cultivation in Europe, but hitherto it 

 has borne no name in English gardens, except that m some 

 places it has been confounded with the similarly fragrant 

 L. brachypoda, Thunb., and L.fragrantissima, of Japan. M. 

 Baillon, who has had the goodness to compare it with au- 

 thentic specimens of L. brachypoda in Baron Delesserts her- 

 barium at Paris, assures us that the two are quite different, 

 and that the present is cultivated in France under the name 

 of L. Standishii, which is supposed to have been given it b\ 

 the late conductor of this Magazine. It hence appeared pro- 

 bable that our plant was one of Mr. Fortune's Chinese intro- 

 ductions, and, on application to Mr. Fortune, he inlorms 

 us that it is common in gardens at Shanghae, and was sent 

 home by him many years ago, and distributed by the Horti- 

 cultural Society with L. fragrantissima. Whatever may be 



MAY 1st, 1868. 



