98 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
Subsect. 12. Distegiae, subsect. nov. 
Lonicera § Cuphanthae, De Candolle, Prodr. 4:336 
(1830), in part. 
Disiegia, Rafinesque, New Fl. N. Am. 8:21 (1836), — 
Greene, Man. Bot. San Francisco Bay 164 (1894). 
This group of two species is native to northern and 
western North America and is chiefly characterized by its 
large glandular bractlets exceeding and loosely enveloping 
the distinct ovaries, enlarging after anthesis and becoming 
dark red and reflexed when the black berries are ripe. 
Upright shrubs with rather stout branches, sometimes sar- 
mentose ; flowers peduncled, upright, yellow to orange-red 
or scarlet; calyx obsolete; corolla tubular-funnelform with 
short upright or slightly spreading nearly regular limb; 
stamens shorter or about as long as corolla, glabrous ; style 
glabrous, exserted; ovaries 3-celled, distinct; fruit black. 
This group has little affinity with any other; by its large 
bracts, the shape of the corolla and its glabrousness within 
and the distinct ovaries it approaches somewhat the Brac- 
teatae, while in general habit and in its pubescence it bears 
some resemblance to the Alpigenae. A certain affinity to 
the latter is also indicated by the fact that a hybrid has 
originated between species of those two groups. 
A. Stamens about as long as limb; corolla usually yellow with upright 
limb, 1-2 cm. long; leaves thin, usually narrowed at the base, 
glabrous or slightly pubescent, 5-12 cm. long; upright, usually 
low shrub, 59, L. involucrata, Banks. 
AA. Stamens not exceeding the tube; corolla usually orange-red or 
scarlet without, yellow within, with Slightly spreading limb, 
1.5-2 cm. long; leaves thickish, pubescent at least beneath, 
rounded or narrowed at the base, 6-12 cm. long; branches some- 
times sarmentose and to5m. long. 60. L. Ledebourii, Eschsch. 
59. L. invoLucrata, ‘* Banks ’’, Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 
1: 759 (1825 ).—De Candolle, Prodr. 4 :336 (1830).— 
Lindley, Bot. Reg. 14. pl. 1179 (1828).— Hooker, 
Fl. Bor.-Am. 1: 284 (1834).— Loudon, Arb. Frut. 
