124 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Leaves acute to acuminate, sparingly ciliate and very 
sparingly hairy beneath, not villous along the midrib, the 
lower truncate at the base; bractlets about one-fourth as 
long as ovary, distinct. ; 
Berlin, Bot. Gard. (in herb. Koehne 1} 
88. L. anceoata, Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 
2.2:177 (1824).— Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 47: 83 
(1827). — De Candolle, Prodr, 4: 334 (1830). 
L. decipiens, Hooker f. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. Soc. 23170 (1858), — 
Clarke in Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 8:14 (1882).— Forbes & Hemsley, 
Jour, Linn. Soc. 23 361 (1888). 
Caprifolium decipiens, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 274 (1891). 
Himalayas: Nepal to Botan (Hooker, Elwes). Tibet 
(Hobson, Soulié, nos. 109, 164), China: Yunnan (De- 
lavay, nos. 2090, 2874); Szechuen (Faber, no. 250) ; 
Shensi (Giraldi, nos. 127, 129, 130). 
Sect. 3. COELOXYLOSTEUM, sect. nov. 
Lonicera § Chamaecerasi, De Candolle, Prodr. 4 : 335 
(1830), in part. 
This section contains 14 Old World species chiefly from 
eastern and central Asia, north and west of the Hima- 
laya Mountains; only three occur also in Europe and one 
of them extends to North Africa. They do not exhibit such 
a wide range of variation as the species of the preceding 
section, but form a rather homogenous group. Even the 
two subsections into which the section can be divided easily 
are distinguished only by rather slight characters and show 
their close relation by numerous hybrids which they pro- 
duce with each other in cultivation. From the two pre- 
ceding sections it differs chiefly in the hollow branches and 
the absence of the tendency of the ovaries to unite and 
forms thus a connection with the following sections with 
which it has these characters in common, while in general 
