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Sintenis). Persia (Kotschy, Haussknecht). Turkestan 
(Regel, Capus, Komarov). Afghanistan (Aitchison). — 
Sometimes cultivated (Goettingen, etc. ). 
The type of this very variable species occurs in Spain 
and North Africa. The Oriental form differs by the longer 
and slenderer tube of the corolla and the generally smaller 
leaves; it may be distinguished as var. Persica (Jaub. & 
Spach), var. nov.; to this variety belong all the synonyms 
quoted above except Caprifolium arboreum and Xylosteum 
arboreum. 
Subsect 17. Ocurantuar, Zabel, emend. 
Lonicera § Ochranthae, Zabel in Beissner, Schelle & 
Zabel, Handb. Laubholz-Ben. 458 (1903), excl. Z. 
Lberica. 
Lonicera § Subsessiliflorae, Zabel, 7. c. 459, excl. his 
L. Nummularia. 
A group of 10 species distributed from eastern Asia to 
the Himalayas and western Europe. It is closely allied to 
the preceding subsection from which it is chiefly distin- 
guished by the yellowish or white flowers fading to yellow 
and by the pilose or villous pubescence. Upright medium- 
sized or large shrubs with rather slender branches more 
or less pilose or pubescent, rarely nearly glabrous; leaves 
of medium size; flowers usually in the lower or middle 
part of the branches; bracts subulate; bractlets about 
one-half or nearly as long as the ovaries; calyx conspicu- 
ous; corolla two-lipped, usually pubescent without, yel- 
lowish or white, fading to yellow; style pilose; fruit red, 
rarely yellow or orange with yellowish-brown seeds, or 
white with black seeds; seeds punctulate or rugulose, 
2—4 mm. long. 
A. Peduncles much longer than the petioles, 1-2.5 cm. long; fruit red, 
rarely yellow. 
B. Ovaries glabrous; upper lip of corolla deeply divided; winter 
buds small with nearly glabrous scales; bractlets distinct. 
