44 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
DD. Leaves quite glabrous, oblong, obtusish, bluish-green; 
corolla glabrous outside; bractlets connate; upright, 
slender- branched shrub, sometimes procumbent. 
6. L. syringantha, Maxim, 
CC. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, obtuse; leaves 5-8 mm. long, ob- 
tuse with revolute margins, glabrous; bractlets connate, 
corolla glabrous; minute shrub, 2-5 cm. high. 
7. L. minuta, Batal. 
1. L. Myrtimuvus, Hooker fil. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. 
Soc. 2: 168 (1858).— Brandis, For. Fl. 255 (1874).— 
Buser in Boissier, Fl. Or. Suppl. 276 (1888). — 
Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 254. f. 166 (1889). — 
Koehne, D. Dendr. 543 (1893 ).— Rehder in Sargent, 
Trees & Shrubs 1:87. pl. £4 (1903). 
L. parvifolia Myrtilius, Clarke in Hooker, Flor. Brit. Ind. 8:13 (1882). 
L. depressa Myrtillus, Nicholson, Hand-list Arb. Kew. 2:13 (1896). 
Afghanistan (Collett, Aitchison). Himalayas: Kashmir 
(Thomson ! Jacquemont, no. 2205, Jaeschke, J. D. Hooker) ; 
- Kumaon (Strachey & Winterbottom); Sikkim (J. D. 
Hooker!) — Sometimes cultivated (Arnold Arboretum, 
Kew, Goettingen, etc. ). 
Var. DEpRESSA, Rehder in Sargent, Trees & Shrubs 1:87 
(1903). 
L. depressa, Royle, Ill. Bot. Him. 236 (1839), nom. nud. — Nicholson, 
Hand-list Arb. Kew 2: 13 (1896). 
L. parvifolia, Hooker fil. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. Soc. 2 : 168 (1858), 
not Hayne or Edgeworth. — Clarke in Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 8 313 
(1882). — Collett, Fl. Siml. 225 (1902). 
Caprifolium parvifolium, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1 3 274 (1891). 
Himalayas: Kumaon (Duthie); Nepal (Duthie); Sik- 
kim (J. D. Hooker!) 
This variety is distinguished from the type only by its 
broader leaf-like bracts and the longer peduncles sometimes 
almost as long as the leaves. 
