Tas. 8585. : 
LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA. 
China. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE, Tribe LoNICEREAE. 
Lonicera, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5; Rehder in 
Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep., 1903, pp. 27-232. 
Lonicera (§ Isika) fragrantissima, Lindl. et Paxt. in Part. Fl. Gard. 
vol. iii, p. 75, fig. 268 (1852); Carriére in Fl. des Serr, sér. ii. vol. iii, 
(1858), p. 63, et Rev. Hort. 1873, p. 169, fig. 17; K. Koch, Dendr, vol. ii. 
(1872), p. 21; Maxim. Bull. Acad. Sci, St. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. (1877), p. 42; 
Gard, Chron. 1878, vol. ix. p. 107, fig. 19; Dippel, Gartenjl. vol. xxxv. 
(1886), p. 680, fig. 87, e6 Handb. der Laubhoizk. vol. i. (1889), p. 226, 
fig. 144; Rehder in Missouri Bot. Gard. Rep. 1903, p. 82; Schneider, Til. 
Handb, Laubholzk. vol. ii. (1911), p. 698, fig. 444 f; affinis ZL. Standishiz, 
Carr., sed ramis glabris, foliis ellipticis vel obovato-ellipticis, corollis extra 
glabris differt. 
Frutex ramosus, ramuli elongati, leviter sulcati vel angulati, glabri; internodii 
usque ad 6 cm. longi. Folia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, basi inaequaliter 
rotundata, apice acute et abrupte mucronata, 4°5-7 cm. longa, 3~4 em. 
lata, integra, chartacea, margine parce setaceo-ciliata, utrinque glabra, 
-subtus glauco-viridia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 adscendentibus promi- 
nentibus marginem versus ramosis ; petioli 3-5 mm. longi, primum parce 
setoso-pilosi, demum glabri. Flores albi, axillares, geminati, pedunculati ; 
pedunculi 1-1°5 cm. longi, acute angulati vel subalati, glabri; bracteae 
geminatae, oppositae, anguste lanceolatae, acutae, 0°5-1 cm, longae, 
foliaceae, glabrae. Receptacula basi breviter connata, ellipsoideo-globosa, 
1 mm. longa. Calyx cupularis, integer vel margine leviter undulatus, 
0°5 mm. altus, viridis. Corolla bilabiata ; tubus vix 0°5 cm. longus, basi 
- gaccatus, extra costatus, glaber, intra pilosus ; labium superum 4-lobum, 
lobis rotundatis 0°5 cm. latis striatis margine minute crenulatis; labium 
inferum integrum, oblongo-ellipticum, apice rotundatum, 1 am. longum, 
0°5 cm. latum, striatum. Stamina exserta; filamenta inaequalia ; 
antherae 8 mm. longae. Stylus exsertus, glaber, apice incrassatus, 
bilobulatus.—L. caprifolioides, K. Koch, Ind. Sem. Berol. 1871, app. 3; 
et Dendr, vol. ii. p. 19. L. Niaguarilli, Hort., ex Koch, lc. L. odoratis- 
sima et L. Magnevillae, Hort. ex Dippel Handb. der Laubholzk. vol. i. 
(1889), p. 226. Caprifolium fragrantissimum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. vol. i. 
(1891), p. 274. L. Volgarensis et Chamaecerasus Niaguariili, Hort., ex 
Hand-list Arb. Kew, 1896, p. 15.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The Honeysuckle here figured is a plant which has 
been in cultivation in England since 1845, when it was 
introduced from China by the late Mr, Fortune on behalf 
of the Royal Horticultural Society. It was met with by 
Fortune in Chinese gardens only, and so far it has never 
yet been discovered in a wild state. L. fragrantissima 
and the well-known L. Standishii, Carr., figured at t. 5709 
of this work, for which this species is sometimes mistaken, 
Novemsper, 1914. 
