Tas. 8800. 
LONICERA sSIMILIS, var. DELAVAYI. 
Western China, 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. ‘Tribe LONICEREAR. 
Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 5. 
Lonicera similis, Hemsl., var. Delavayi, Rehder in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 
vol. i. p. 142 (1911); a planta typica ramis et corollis glabris differt. 
Frutex scandens, sempervirens ; rami teretes, glabri. Wolia late lanceolata, 
apice acuta, basi cordata usque ad 6°7 cm. longa et 2°2 em. lata, integra ; 
pagina superiore glabra, elevato-punctata, laete virentia, costa media nervis 
lateralibusque leviter impressis; inferiore cinereo-tomentella, costa 
nervisque elevatis, nervis lateralibus marginem versus anastomosantibus ; 
petiolus 3 mm. longus, patule hirsutus. Inflorescentiae axillares et 
terminales; bracteae lanceolatae, acutae, 2 mm. longae, ciliolatae ; 
bracteolae orbiculares, 1 mm. diametro, glabrae. Calyeis dentes deltoidei, 
acuti, 1 mm. longi, ciliolati. Corolla 4°5 cm. longa, glabra, tubo tenui 
eylindrico 1°75 mm. diametro vix gibboso, limbo bilabiato 1°2 em. longo, 
lobo inferiore lineari, 2 mm. lato, superiore breviter quadrilobo, 9 mm. 
lato. Filamenta 1°5 ecm. longa, glabra; antherae 4 mm. longae. 
Receptaculum (ovariwm) cylindricum, 3 mm. longum, 1°5 mm. diametro, 
glabrum; stylus 6 cm. longus, glaber; stigma capitatum. Bacca ovoidea, 
9 mm. longa, 7 mm. diametro.—L. Delavayi, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. 
_ vol. x. p. 310 (1896) ; Bean, Trees and Shrubs, vol. ii. p. 41.—W. B. Turrim. 
The Honeysuckle here figured was originally discovered 
by the late Abbé Delavay in South-Western China, and 
was at first regarded by the late Mr. Franchet as a 
distinct species which he named in compliment to its 
distinguished collector. The more ample material now 
available has, however, led Mr. Rehder to think that it 
is only a glabrescent variety of Lonicera similis, Hemsl. 
The plant from which our figure has been prepared was 
presented to Kew in 1910 by the late Mr. M. L. de 
Vilmorin, who had raised plants at Les Barres from seeds 
received from South-Western China in 1901, some of 
which flowered for the first time in 1904. Among the 
nearer allies of L. similis, var. Delavayi, are L. macrantha, 
Wall., from which it differs in having a longer, glabrous 
corolla-tube, and L. longijlora, DC., from which it is 
Aprit—JuNE, 1919, 
