SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 125 
habit the affinity of this group is with the preceding 
sections. 
A. Flowers pink to white, not fading to yellow; bractlets separate or 
only slightly connate at the base; leaves and bractlets glabrous 
or puberulous, or sometimes villous. 16. Subsect, TaTaRIcak. 
4A. Flowers white or yellowish-white, rarely tinged with red, fading to 
yellow; bractlets usually more or less connate, sometimes sepa- 
rate; pubescence pilose or villous, rarely wanting: 
17. Subsect, OCHRANTHAE. 
Subsect. 16. Tataricae, subsect. nov. 
A group of four rather variable species distributed from 
the Altai Mountains to the Ural and through Persia and 
Asia Minor to Greece, reappearing again in Spain and 
North Africa. Medium-sized or large shrubs with slender 
branches and usually rather small, glabrous or sometimes 
villous foliage; flowers mostly in the middle and upper 
part of the branches; bracts subulate, bractlets usually 
small, all distinct or connate only at the base; corolla 
two-lipped, usually glabrous without, pink or carmine to 
white; stamens shorter than limb; style hairy or nearly 
glabrous; fruit red; seed 2-3 mm. long, punctulate. 
A. Peduncles 2-4 times as long as petioles, 
B. Lateral lobes of the upper lip of the corolla separated to the base 
of the limb and spreading; corolla to 2cm. long, white to car- 
mine, with not or slightly gibbous tube; bractlets usually 
ovate, not or slightly connate at the base; leaves subcordate or 
rounded at the base, mostly acute, 3-6 cm. long, glabrous or 
rarely puberulous. 89. LZ. Tatarica, Linn. 
BB. Lateral lobes of the upper lip of the corolla separated one-half 
or two-thirds, upright; the two bractlets of each flower more 
or less connate at the base; leaves 1.5-4 cm. long. 
C. Leaves truncate or subcordate at the base, obtuse or rarely 
acutish, broadly oval to elliptic, puberulous along the mid- 
rib beneath or-puberulous throughout; corolla distinctly 
gibbous; bractlets ovate, little shorter than ovaries; upper 
peduncles shorter than lower ones, often but little longer 
than petioles. 90. L. floribunda, Boiss, & Bubse. 
