Chamaecerasus from specimens collected some years 

 earlier, near Orenburg, by Heinzelmann, mentioning that 

 it had also been found by Gmelin in Dauria. Gmelin's 

 own record is from Transbaicalia, and Pallas speaks of 

 its occurrence in the Selanga basin. There is no later 

 record of this Lonicera from these eastern localities, and 

 recent authors omit them from its area. It certainly 

 occurs, however, from the lower Volga to the Altai 

 range, and throughout the greater part of Northern 

 Turkestan. The flowers of the Orenburg form are said 

 by Amman to be white; Linnaeus in 1763 termed them 

 incarnate, but in 1767 alluded to them as white. Pallas, 

 who also described them as incarnate, has remarked 

 that a white variety is to be found in shady woods. An 

 unusually dark-coloured form, now generally referred *to 

 L. tatarica, was figured in this work at t. 2469 as L. 

 pumcea, Sims. In that figure, however, the posticous 

 lobes of the limb are shown as free to the base, and the 

 limb is described as five-cleft with the lobes nearly 

 equal, so that, although the other characters suggest 

 L. tatarica, this reduction is somewhat doubtful. 



Description.— Shrub, reaching 10 ft. in height; 

 branches glabrous ; old bark greyish. Leaves ovate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute or occasionally somewhat obtuse, 

 base rather truncately cordate or rounded, l£-2£ in. 

 long 3 -i T m. W1( j e , gre en, paler beneath, glabrous; 

 petiole jV-^ in long. Flowers in pairs on axillary 

 glabrous peduncles |-| in. long, bracts subulate, glabrous, 

 t* t m. long ; bracteoles wide elliptic, obtuse, free or 

 nearly so very short. Corolla white or more or less 

 flushed with rose-pink, glabrous ; tube rather gibbous at 

 the base ; lateral lobes free from the posterior lobes almost 

 to the base of the limb. Anthers distinctly exserted 



if™u £ COr ° lla throat but ^o^er than the corolla- 

 iimb. Berries red, free or nearly so, over ± in. across. 



laiKpeA * 3 i^f/T+T' fr T WhI , ch the corolla has b een removed ; 2, corolla, 

 ma open , 3 and 4, anthers ; 5, style and stigma -.-all enlarged, 



