SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 47 
Differs by smallerleaves, smaller short-peduncled flowers, 
ciliate bracts and bractlets and depressed habit. 
var. Wolfii, var. nov. 
Low glabrous shrub with slender often procumbent 
branches; leaves elliptic-oblong to narrow oblong, some- 
times in threes, 1.5-3.5 cm. long and 0.5-1 cm. broad, 
truncate or broadly cuneate at the base, acutish and mu- 
cronulate at the apex, dull green above and glaucescent | 
beneath; bracts leafy, exceeding the calyx teeth; cupula 
about as long as the ovaries and irregularly toothed; calyx 
teeth unequally connate at the base, ciliate; corolla 14 mm. 
long, glabrous, very fragrant, carmine pink. 
From the type it differs chiefly by the procumbent habit, 
the longer and narrower leaves and the ciliate calyx teeth 
connate at the base. I take pleasure in associating with 
this handsome form the name of Mr. Egbert Wolf, the 
author of a valuable and exhaustive paper on Russian 
Loniceras, who first drew my attention to this form. 
Introduced from central China into the nursery of Kes- 
selring & Regel, St. Petersburg (herb. Arnold Arbore- 
tum); also Ladygin’s no. 522 from Han-su (= Kansu?) 
and specimens from North Szechuen collected by Potanin 
seem to belong here, though the latter have the leaves 
slightly pubescent when young. The three preceding 
species are all closely related to each other and can perhaps 
as well be considered forms of one species; also the fol- 
lowing is only a peculiarly modified form of this group of 
species. 
7. L. minuta, Batalin, Act. Hort. Petrop. 12:170 
(1892). — Wolf, Gartenfl. 42 : 331 (1893). 
L. syringantha deserticola, Maximowicz, in herb. Petrop.! (var. 
desertorum, Maxim., ex Batalin, 7. c.) 
China: Kansu (Przewalski!). Tibet (Przewalski!). 
An ecologically very interesting form with short much 
