SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 77 
China: Yunnan (Delavay, no. 4867!). 
Differs only in the very small suboxvignier to broadly 
ovate, thickish leaves. 
Subsect. 7. VestcaARIAE, Komar, 
Lonicera § Vesicaria, Komarov, Act. Hort. Petrop. 
18 :427 (1901). 
This small group contains only two closely allied species 
from northwestern China, Mongolia and Korea. They 
are remarkably distinct from all other Loniceras by the close 
union of the cupula with the ovaries; the upper margin 
of the pubescent cupula is adnate all around to the base of 
the two calices and grows with the otherwise distinct 
ovaries into a rather dry accessory collective fruit. The 
only other case of a similar pseudocarp in the genus is that 
of L. coerulea, but in that species the cupula remains free 
at the apex and is merely tightly appressed to the berries. 
If in all other respects the Vesicariae did not show such a 
close affinity to LZ. Jberica, the peculiar structure of the 
fruit could be considered a sufficient character to found a 
distinct subgenus or even a genus uponthem. The two 
species are robust shrubs with rather stout branches fur- 
nished with hispid or setose hairs; leaves generally ovate, 
broad at the base, and on vigorous shoots often lobed; 
winter buds with two outer scales, rather large; stipular 
appendages often present on vigorous branches; flowers 
short-peduncled, appearing in the axils of the upper leaves 
which become smaller and sometimes bract-like toward the 
top of the branch; bracts large and leaf-like; calyx dis- 
tinctly 5-toothed; corolla two-lipped with short gibbous 
tube, yellowish, hirsute without; style pubescent; ovaries 
3-celled, cells with 4-6 ovules. 
A. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, 5-10 cm. long, ciliate and 
hirsute along the midrib beneath; bracts oblong to oblong -lance- 
olate; ovaries sometimes three in one common cupula; fiower 
unknown. 83, L. vesicaria, Komar. 
