Tas. 8555. 
LONICERA LepEpovrii. 
California. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe LoNICEREAE. 
Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5. 
Lonicera Ledebourii, Hschscholiz in Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. vol. x. 
p- 284; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 336; Hook. et Arnott Bot. Beechey Voy. 
p. 143; Newmann in Rev. Hort. ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 378, cum icon. ; Regel, 
Gartenfl. vol. ii. p. 289, t. 64; K. Koch. Dendr. vol. ii. p. 85; Dippel, 
Handb, Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 258, t. 171; Koehne, Deutsch, Dendr. p. 544 ; 
Rehder in Rep. Missourr Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. p. 100; Schneider, Ill. 
Handb, Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 705, t. 448, figs. e-f; affinis L. involucratae, 
Banks, sed ramis longioribus foliis infra pubescentibus basi interdum 
rotundatis corollae tubo extra rubro-luteo, lobis patulis antheris vix 
exsertis differt. 
Frutex erectus ; rami elongati, interdum usque ad 5 m. longi; ramuli angulati, 
juniores parce puberuli. Folia lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, subacuta 
vel breviter mucronata, basi obtusa vel rotundata, 4-8 cm. longa, 1*5-2°5 cm. 
lata, integra, tenuiter chartacea, supra nervis puberula, infra molliter 
pubescentia, reticulata, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 ascendentibus 
arcuatis; petioli 0°5 em. longi, parce puberuli. Flores geminati, intra 
involucrum longe pedunculatum e bracteis duabus sessiles; pedunculi 
2-2°5 em. longi, glabri. Bracteae oppositae, distinctae, ovatae vel ovato- 
ellipticae, apice obtusae, sub anthesin circiter 1 cm. longae et 0°8 cm. 
latae, extra reticulatae, parce pilosae, intra et marginibus stipitato- 
glandulosae, primum rubro-virides, in fructu purpureae et accrescentes ; 
bracteolae parvae. Calyx obsoletus. Corolla infundibuliformis, basi 
saccata, extra rubro-lutea, intra lutea; tubus 1-1°5 cm. longus, circiter 
0*5 cm. diametro, extra parce pilosus; limbus 5-lobus, lobis patulis late 
ovato-rotundatis 3 mm. latis. Stamina 5, supra medium tubi inserta; 
antherae vix exsertae, mucronatae. Ovariwm glabrum; stylus crassus ; 
stigma capitatum, breviter exsertum. Bacca nigra. — Chamaecerasus 
Ledebourii, Billiard, L’Hort. Frang. 1861, p. 256. Lonicera intermedia, 
Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. vol. i. p. 154, fig. 47. Caprifoliwm Ledebourtt, 
Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 274. Distegia Ledebourit, Greene, Man. 
Bot. San Francisco Bay, p. 164. Xylostewm Lebebourii, Howell, Fl. 
N.W. Am, vol. i. p. 282.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The Lonicera described above is a shrub of sturdy 
erect habit, ultimately attaining a height of six to nine 
feet and being as much across. Its deep orange-yellow 
flowers, tinged with red, appear in late May and June, 
and make the shrub very handsome then. It is very 
easily cultivated, thriving in a deep loamy soil and in a 
sunny position. Introduced in 1838 from California, it 
May, 1914, 
