SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 57 
One of the type specimens (no. 1220) has: bractlets 
about one-third as long as the ovaries, the other from 
‘* Yen-tze-hay’’ has none. A remarkable form is Gi- 
raldi’s no. 1780, from Shen-si, which has glabrous leaves 
and the ovaries connate only one-third to one-half; bract- 
lets are present. It may be distinguished as var. Shensi- 
ensis var. nov. Whether the specimens of Giraldi from 
Kuan-tou-shan (nos. 1776 and 1771) and Delavay’s nos. 
2068 and 3404 from Yunnan should be referred to this 
species as forms without bractlets or to the following 
species as forms with glabrous ovaries or should constitute 
anew species may remain undecided until more material is 
available. 
13. L. stenostpHon, Franchet, Jour. de Bot. 10: 318 
(1896).— Bois, Jour. Soc. Hort. France IV. 1: 210 
(1900). 
China: Yunnan (Delavay!); Szechuen (Farges! ). 
The specimens from Szechuen differ somewhat from 
those from Yunnan which Franchet according to his de- 
scription seems to consider as the type; the leaves 
resemble in shape and pubescence more those of the pre- 
ceding species and as there is among the specimens 
from Szechuen one with but slightly pubescent and one 
with glabrous ovaries, there seems to be no reliable charac- 
ter to distinguish them from the bractless forms of the 
preceding species. (See note under L. trichopoda.) 
14. L. 1nconspicua, Batalin, Act. Hort. Petrop. 14:173 
(1895). 
Tibet (Kachkarov!). — Plate 6. 
15. L. Lrrancensis, Batalin, Act. Hort. Petrop. 14: 173 
(1895). 
Tibet (Kachkarov! Soulié, no. 541). China: Szechuen 
(Pratt, no. 752).— Plate 7. 
