118 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The following varieties may be distinguished : — 
A. Peduncles short, only occasionally longer than 1 cm. 
B. Leaves pubescent beneath and usually rounded at the base, oval 
to oblong-lanceolate; tube strongly gibbous. 
Typical form. 
BB. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, usually broadly cuneate at the 
base. 
C. Leaves oval to oblong-elliptic; corolla usually violet with 
gibbous tube. 
var. Caucasica, Zabel, Syst. Verz. Muenden 24 (1878). 
L. Caucascia, Pallas, Fl. Ross. 1 3 59 (1784).—Jaubert & Spach, Ill. 
Pl. Or. 12185. pl. 72 (1842-43). — Kirillow, Lonic. Russ. Reich. 
45 (1849).— Walpers, Rep. Bot. 6:5 (1846).—Boissier, Fl. Or. 
8:8 (1875).— Wolf, Isv. St. Peterb. Lesn. Inst. $339. pl. 72. 
Jf. 1-3. pl. 15. f. 28, 29 (1898). 
L. coerulea, Gueldenstaedt, Reis. Russl. 1 ¢ 421 (1787), ex Kirillow, not 
Linné. 
L. Orientalis, Marschall Bieberstein, Fl. Taur. Cauc. 1 ¢ 158 (1808). — 
Loudon, Arb. Frut. Brit. 21058 (1838).— K. Koch, Dendr. 2! 32 
(1872). — Dippel, Handb, Laubholzk. 13245 (1889). — Koehne, D. 
Dendr. 549 (1893). — Penkowsky, Derev. Kust. Ross. $3 15 (1901). 
? L. Tatarica Caucasica, Endlicher, Cat. Hort. Vindob. 13459 (1842), 
nom. nud. 
L. Schmitziana, Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 13247 (1889), herb. 
Dippel! — Koehne, D. Dendr. 548 (1893). 
Caprifolium Caucasicum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1 274 (1891). 
Caprifolium Schmitzianum, Kuntze, l. c. 
Transcaucasia (Stevens, Hohenacker, Wilhelm). Ar- 
menia (Scovits). China: Shen-si (Giraldi, nos. 1465, 
1466). — Cultivated (Arnold Arboretum, etc.). 
CC. Leaves oblong to lanceolate; corolla pinkish or whitish-pink; 
tube slightly gibbous. 
var. LONGIFOLIA, Dippel, Handb. lLaubholzk. 1: 246. 
f. 158 (1889), excl. syn. 
L. Kesselringii, Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. 11:310 (1890); Gartenfl. 
403123. f. 44 (1891). — Koehne, D. Dendr. 548 (1893). — Wolf, 
Isv. St. Peterb. Lesn. Inst. $342. pl. 12. f. 4-8. pl. 15. f. 30-31 
(1898). 
