Tab. 8677. 



LONICERA TATARICA. 



Soutlt-Eastern Russia to Siberia. 



Caprifoliaceae. Tribe Lonicereae. 

 Lonicera, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 5. 



Lonicera tatariea, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 173 ; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 335 ; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Boss. vol. ii. p. 388 ; Koch, Dendr. vol. ii. p. 26 ; Bchder, Syn. Gen. 

 Lonicera in Bejp. Miss. Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. p. 126; C. K. Schneider, 

 Handb. Laubholzh. vol. ii. p. 716 ; species ab omnibus gregis Tataricarum, 

 Rebder, labio corollae superiore multo magis diviso et bracteolis liberis 

 «vel subliberis distincta. 



Frutex ad 3 m. altus, ramis glabris, cortice demum cinerascente. Folia ovata 

 vel ovato-oblonga, acuta vel rarius obtusiuscula, basi subtruncato-cordata 

 vel abrupte rotundata, 3-6 cm. longa, l'5-8 cm. lata, viridia, infra palli- 

 diora, glabra ; petiolus 2-6 mm. longus. Flores geminati in pedunculis 

 axillaribus glabris l - 5-2 2 cm. longis; bracteae subulatae, glabrae, 2-5 

 mm. longae ; bracteolae late ellipticae, obtusae, liberae vel fere liberae, 

 circiter 1 mm. longae. Corolla alba vel magis minusve roseo-suffusa, 

 glabra ; tubus basi subgibbosus ; lobi laterales a posticis fere ad limbi basin 

 separati. Antherae e faucibus corollae exsertae, sed limbo breviores. 

 Baccae rubrae, liberae vel subliberae, ad 7 mm. diametro. — Xylosteum 

 cordatum, Moench, Metb. p. 502. X. tataricum, Dumont de Courset, 

 Bot. Cult. vol. ii. p. 275. Chamaecerasus tatariea, Billiard, L'Hort. Fr. 

 p. 256. Caprifolium tataricum, O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. vol. i. p. 274. — 

 O. Stapf. 



Lonicera tatariea is one of the best and most reliable 

 for gardens of all the bush Honeysuckles ; it is a 

 free grower in all but the poorest soils and flowers 

 abundantly every season. There are many forms in 

 cultivation in gardens, the differences being mainly in 

 the size and colour of the corolla, and Rehder in his 

 synopsis of the genus enumerates, in addition to three 

 more distinct varieties, no fewer than twenty-two 

 separate forms of the typical plant. Of these the one 

 here figured, from material supplied from the garden of 

 Mr. W. Robinson at Gravetye, near East Grinstead, is 

 perhaps the most attractive. It is marked by the full 

 rounded character of the corolla segments and the rich 

 shade of the flowers. Propagation of any of the forms 

 is easily effected by cuttings. This shrub was first made 

 known by Amman in 1739, and described by him as a 



September, 1916. 



