Tans 8236. 
LONICERA GIRALDTI, 
China. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LONICEREAE. 
Lontcmra, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 5. - 
Lonicera (Nintooa) Giraldii, Rehder in Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. 
1908, p. 150; S. Mottet in Rev. Hort. 1907, p. 299, fig. 98; affinis 
L. acuminatae, Wall., a qua foliis angustioribus dense hirsutis differt. 
Frutex, ramis gracilibis junioribus dense flavo-tomentosis.  //ia_oblongo- 
lanceolata vel lanceolata, acuminata, basi cordata, 3-9 em. longa, 1°5-2°5em. 
lata, utrinque dense hirsuta; petioli usque ad 1 cm. longi, tomentosi. 
Paniculae terminales, breves; pedunculi breves; bracteae subulatae, 
pilosae, circiter 3 mm. longae ; bracteolae ovatae, ciliatae. Culycis dentes 
lanceolatae, 1 mm. longae, longe pilosae. Corolla bilabiata; tubus 1 cm. 
longus, extus dense flavo-pilosus; labium superum 3-4-lobatum, 1 em. 
longum, lobis ovatis subacutis 2 mm. longis; labium inferum oblongum, 
vix lem. longum, 2 mm. latum. Stamina subaequalia, filamentis infra 
medium parce pilosis, antheris exsertis 4-5 mm. longis. Stylus exsertus, 
2 em. longus, pilosus. Fructus globosus, atropurpureus, 5 mm. diametro, 
calycis dentibus persistentibus.—J. HUTCHINSON. 
For the introduction of this striking Honeysuckle horti- 
culture is indebted to Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin, by whom 
seeds were first obtained from Szechuen in 1899 and with 
whom it first produced flowers in 1903. The plants which 
yielded the specimens from which the present figure was 
prepared flowered in 1908 in the establishment of Messrs. 
Vilmorin-Andrieux at Verriéres-le-Buisson, whence material 
was sent to Kew in June, and again in October last. 
Although very nearly allied to Z. acuminata, Wall., a 
Himalayan species, this Chinese plant, Mr. Hutchinson 
points out, is readily distinguished by the somewhat narrower | 
leaves which are clothed on both surfaces with a dense, 
yellowish, somewhat stiff indumentum. 
In his careful synopsis of the genus Lonicera, Rehder has 
proposed a new subsection of the section Nintooa for the 
accommodation of Z. Giraldii and ten other species that are 
distributed from Central Asia and the Himalaya south-east- 
JANUARY, 1909, 
