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Lonicera Imptexa. Minorca Honey- 
- SUCKLE. 
Clafs and Order. - 
PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Cor, monopetala irregularis, Bacca poly{perma 2-locularis | 
infera. ; 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
LONICERA implexa ; floribus ringentibus verticillatis, brac- 
teis levibus, foliis perennantibus glabris ob- 
longis: fuperioribus connato-perfoliatis: fum- 
mis dilatatis. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 231. Willd. Sp, 
Pi, 1, p. 984. : 
The Minorca Honey-Suckle belongs to the divifion of Peri- 
~ ¢lymenum, and approaches very near to Lonicera Caprifolium, 
differing principally in having fmall evergreen leaves, which 
on the lower part of the plant are narrower with ftraight fides 5 _ 
branches intricately interwoven; whorls containing fewer 
flowers; tube of the corolla ftraighter and fegments of the limb 
fhorter in proportion. The flowers are pale coloured, ftreaked 
with red, white within when firft expanded, but changing to 
yellow as in the common Woodbine. 
If lefs fhewy than fome other fpecies, it certainly yields to 
none in fragrance, and bloffoms abundantly from Midfummer 
to Michaelmas. 
Is hardy, but thrives beft in a fheltered fituation. At the 
Dowager Lady De Crirrorn’s, from whofe very curious 
_ Colleétion of exotics, at Paddington, our drawing was taken 
in July 1801, it flourifhed with great vigour in the open air, _ 
in front of the confervatory. | es 
May be propagated by cuttings, as other Honey-Suckles ai 
Introduced, according to Hort. Kew. about the year 1 
by Monf. Ricuanp, Never before figured, = 
