Tap. 8536. 
LONICERA DEFLEXICALYX. 
China and Tibet. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LONIGEREAE. 
Lontcera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 5; Rehder in Missouré 
Bot. Gard. Report, 1903, p. 27. 
Lonicera deflexicalyx, Batalin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xii. p. 178 ; Wolf in: 
Gartenfl. vol. xlii. p. 8332; Rehder, 1.c. p. 142; affinis L. ovalis, Batalin, sed 
foliis lanceolatis acuminatis bracteolis ovariis brevioribus facile distin- 
guitur. 
Frutex; ramuli patentes, graciles, glanduloso-puberuli. Folia lanceolata vel 
oblongo-lanceolata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, apice acuminata, mu- 
cronata, 4-7 em. longa, 1°5-2°3 em. lata, integra, tenuiter chartacea, supra 
parce pilosa, infra praesertim ad nervos pilosa; nervi laterales utrinsecus 
9-10, angulo 45° a costa abeuntes, leviter arcuati, supra immersi, infra 
prominentes ; petioli 2-5-4 mm. longi, pubescentes. Pedunculi axillares, — 
solitarii, biflori, flore 2-3-plo breviores, glanduloso-puberuli ; bracteae 
lineares, subobtusae, 2-8 mm. longae, fere glabrae; bracteolae ovario 
duplo breviores vel subaequilongae, basi_connatae, truncatae vel obscure 
dentatae, ciliatae. Receptacula inter se libera,2 mm. alta, glabra. Calyx 
fere ad basin fissus, segmentis membranaceis 2-3-dentatis parce pilosis. 
Corolla flava; tubus circiter 0°5 cm. longus, intra longe extra breyiter 
pilosus et inferne glandulosus ; labium inferum integrum, oblongum, apice 
rotundatum, tubo longius, superum 4-lobum, lobis ovatis apice rotundatis 
3-4 mm. longis. Stamina exserta; filamenta circiter 0°5 cm. longa, basi 
pilosa; antherae 4-5 mm. longae, pallide virides. Stylus staminibus sub- 
aequilongus, pilosus, stigmate bilobo. Baccae (ex Batalin) luteo-auran- 
tiacae, globosae, polyspermae ; semina compressa, elliptica.—J. Hurcninsow. 
The Honeysuckle here figured belongs to a small group 
of species which is separated from the other members of 
Lonicera, subsection Ochranthae, Zabel, as amended by 
Rehder, chiefly by the form of the calyx which is usually 
more or less truncate. It is a species which occurs in 
Yunnan, Szechuan and Eastern Tibet, and is most nearly 
allied to L. ovalis, Batalin, which in turn is hardly by its 
description distinguishable from LZ. trichosantha, Bur. & 
Franch., a native of the same region. L. deflexicalyx, 
however, is readily distinguished by its narrower leaves. 
‘The plant from which the material for our figure has been 
derived was purchased when quite small from Mr, Spath of 
Berlin in 1908, and is now a bush 7 ft. in height and 15 ft, 
JaNuARY, 1914. 
