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Lonicera PUNICEA. | Crimson = FLOWERED 
HoONEY-SUCKLE, 4 000" 
JHE Eeslelokeokek 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca polysperma, bilocu- 
laris, infera. 
Specific Character. 
Lonicera punicea ; foliis cordato-ovatis concoloribus, baccis 
distinctis, pedunculis axillaribus subterminalibus bi- 
floris folio brevioribus. == 
Descr. A low shrub, with scattered branches covered 
with a reddish-brown smooth bark. The leaves ovate and 
cordate-ovate, bright green on both sides, opposite on the 
_ flowering branches, but on the young vigorous shoots in 
our plant, ternate, a circumstance so singular in this genus, 
_that we can hardly help considering it as a monstrosity. 
_ Peduncles two-flowered, solitary, growing from the axils. 
of the upper leaves, than which they are shorter. Germens 
| distinct, inferior, with two obtuse bractes at the base of 
— €ach: Calyx minute, five-toothed, persistent, and increas- 
Ing after the flower falls. Tube of corolla a little gibbous 
| at the base, limb five-cleft: lacinie nearly equal, irregu- 
_ arly arranged, three looking one way, two another. Ripe 
berries not seen. It belongs to Jussteu’s genus XyLos- 
_ Teum, and to his natural aie of Caprifolia. 
This pretty little shrub was communicated by Mr. 
- Brooxas, of Ball’s Pond, Islington, in flower, in the month 
Of April, 1822. Mr. Brooxzs received it from Mons. Par- 
SENTIER of Brussels, under the name of Lonicera cana- 
- densis. But the plant recorded by that name, by ScuuLres, 
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