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branching and the absence of stipular appendages and ac- 
cessory buds seem to afford reliable characters to dis- 
tinguish them as varieties. The L. coerulea from western 
North America, however, approaches the Asiatic plant by 
the more slender and pilose corolla. In regard to the 
pubescence the American plant seems nearly as variable as 
that of the Old World. 
Subsect. 5. Cerasinae, subsect. nov. 
This subsection contains but a single species from Japan 
which shows no close affinity to any other Lonicera. In 
the shape of the flower, the glabrous style and the mode 
of flowering it exhibits some affinity to the Fragrantissimae ; 
by its adult foliage, the fruit and the large seeds it resem- 
bles the Alpigenae of which at least one species, L. Hems- 
leyana, has a similar cupula, but the 2-celled ovary brings 
it near the Purpurascentes, though this seems not to be the 
most satisfactory arrangement, except that the species resem- 
bles in general aspect and the winter buds the L. gyno- 
chlamydea of the following subsection. JL. cerasina isa 
rather robust shrub, almost glabrous, with oblong-ovate or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate leaves to 10 cm. long; 
flowers two-lipped, yellowish-white, scarcely 1 cm. long, 
glabrous outside, appearing before or with the leaves; 
filaments and style glabrous; bracts linear, ciliate, as long 
as the partly connate 2-celled ovaries; bractlets connate 
into a four-lobed cupula about half as long as the ovaries. 
29. L. cerAstnA Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pé- 
tersb. 24:41; Mél. Biol. 10: 64 (1877). 
Caprifolium cerasinum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 13 274 (1891). 
Japan: Hondo (Maximowicz!); Kiu-shiu, Nanokawa 
Tosa (Watanabe). — Plate 9. 
Watanabe’s specimen differs from the type by the fully 
developed leaves and the short filaments, the stamens being 
