the material from which our figure has been prepared was 
taken from a plant purchased from that firm in 1913. 
The Kew example is now a shrub about five feet high, 
of neat, rounded habit, and is evidently perfectly 
hardy. At Kew it is, indeed, regarded as one of the 
best and most satisfactory of the newer shrubby honey- 
suckles. It likes a good loamy soil and is easily 
increased by means of cuttings put in sandy soil in 
gentle heat during July and August. Its flowers open in 
early June and are of a pleasing primrose yellow. 
Description.—Shrub, compact in habit, about 5 ft. high; branches terete, — 
the younger purplish, hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 
with an obtuse or sub-acute apex, rounded and often unequal at the base, 
13-2 in. long, about 1 in. broad, entire, the upper surface bright green, more or 
less hirsute, with the midrib and lateral nerves slightly impressed, the lower 
surface pale green, hirsute, the midrib and lateral nerves raised; petiole — 
13-2 in. long. Inflorescences axillary, 2-flowered ; peduncles 3-1 in. long, 
hirsute with spreading hairs; bracts nearly orbicular, about 4 in. wide, hirsute. 
Calyx 3; in. long, faintly toothed. Corolla 1-14 in. long, throat ;8 in. 
across, with a basal sac nearly } in. long, hirsute and glandular outside, lobes 
ovate or oblong-rounded, $ in. long, 3 in. broad. Filaments } in. long, } in. in 
diameter, densely glandular; style 11 in. long, hirsute in the lower two-thirds ; 
stigma obliquely capitate. 
Tas. 8804.—Fig. 1, an inflorescence ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, transverse section of 
ovary :—all enlarged, 
