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var. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Regel, Russk. Dendr. 144 (1873). 
Young branches covered with a minute velvety pubes- 
cence; leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, finely pubes- 
cent when young; flowers slightly pilose, small; cupula 
at the top often less tightly appressed to the calyx and 
sometimes (in cultivated plants) partly divided into two 
large bractlets. 
Turkestan: Koltun (Regel); Tskander-Kul (Ko- 
marov). — Sometimes cultivated (Arnold Arboretum ). 
CC. Leaves glabrous, not ciliate, rarely slightly puberulous be- 
neath when unfolding, oval, obtuse, rather firm and dis- 
tinctly reticulate beneath at maturity; corolla glabrous. 
var. venulosa, comb. nov. 
L. reticulata, Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 24340; Mél. 
Biol. 103 63 (1877), not Champion. 
L. venulosa, Maximowicz, l. c. 263 542; Mél, Biol. 103 741 (1880). 
L. reticulata, Borbas, Erdeszeti Lapok 163164 (1882); Oester. Bot. 
Zeitschr. 823 136 (1882). 
Caprifolium Borbasianum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 13 274 (1891). 
Caprifolium venulosum, Kuntze, l. ¢. 
L. coerulea reticulata, Zabel in Beissner, Schelle & Zabel, Handb. 
Laubbolz-Ben. 463 (1903). 
Japan: Hondo (Tschonoski!). South Europe: Croatia 
(ex Borbas). 
I have seen no specimens from Croatia, but according to 
Borbds’ description the Croatian form seems to be the 
same as the Japanese plant, which is hardly specifically 
distinct from L. coerulea. 
BB. Leaves and branches more or less hirsute and pubescent. 
C. Leaves usually elliptic; stamens usually not exceeding the 
corolla; fruit subglobose. 
var. ALTarcA, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2. 258 (1830), 
nom. nud. — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 265 
* (1889). 
L. Altaica, Pallas, Fl. Ross. pl. 87 (1789), in part. — De Candolle, 
Prodr. 4 3337 (1830). 
