Tas. 8804. 
LONICERA CHAETOCARPA,. 
Western China. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. ‘Tribe LONICEREAE. 
Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5. 
Lonicera chaetocarpa, Rehder in Sargent, Pl. Wilson. vol. i. p. 187 (1911) ; 
species L. hispidae, Pall., affinis, planta hirsuta, foliis majoribus pagina 
utraque hirsutis, bracteis majoribus, corollis majoribus basi conspicue 
saccatis, receptaculo (ovario) setoso-glanduloso distinguitur. 
Frutex compactus, 1°5-metralis ; rami teretes, juniores purpurascentes, patule 
hirsuti. Folia oblongo-elliptica, apice obtusa vel subacuta, basi rotundata, 
saepe inaequalia, 4-5 cm. longa, circiter 2°5 cm. lata, integra, pagina 
superiore laete virentia plus minusve hirsuta costa media nervis 
lateralibusque leviter impressis, inferiore pallide virentia hirsuta costa 
media nervis lateralibusque prominentibus; petiolus 4-5 mm. longus. 
Inflorescentiae axillares, biflorae; pedunculi 1-1°4 cm. longi, patule 
hirsuti; bracteae suborbiculares, circiter 2°2 cm. diametro, hirsutae. 
Calyx 1 mm. longus, vix dentatus. Corolla 2°5—-3 cm. longa, fauce 1*1 cm. 
diametro, basi sacco 5 mm. longo instructa, viridi-flava, extra hirsuta et 
glandulosa, lobis ovato- vel oblongo-rotundatis 9 mm. longis, 8 mm. latis. 
Filamenta 6 mm. longa, glabra; antherae 6 mm. longae. Receptaculwm 
(ovarium) 4 mm. longum, 3 mm. diametro, dense glandulosum ; stylus 
3 cm. longus, parte superiore excepta hirsutus ; stigma oblique capitatum.— 
Lonicera hispida, Pall., var. chaetocarpa, Batalin apud Rehder in Rep. 
Miss. Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. p. 94 (1903).—W. B. Turritt. 
The plant here figured was originally described as a 
variety of Lonicera hispida, Pall., but the characters 
given above seem to be sufficiently definite and constant 
to separate it from that very variable species. Following 
the classification of Rehder, this species, which he terms 
L. chaetocarpa, is to be included in the Bracteatae group 
recognised by Hooker and T. Thomson within the 
section defined as Jsika by DeCandolle, and thus falls 
within the subgenus which Linnaeus termed Chamae- 
cerasus. The original specimens of L. chaetocarpa were 
collected in Kansu, but the plant has since been met 
with both in Szechuan and in Eastern Tibet. It was 
introduced to cultivation by Mr. E. H. Wilson in 1904 
when collecting in Western China for Messrs. Veitch, and 
Aprit-J UNE, 1919. 
