140 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
L. Xylostewm, Georgi, Bem. Reis. Russ. Reich. 13201 (1775), not 
Linné. 
Xylosteum gibbiflorum, Ruprecht & Maximowicz, Bull. Phys. Math. 
Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 153 136 (1857). — Ruprecht, Bull. Phys. 
Math. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 15 3 368 (1857). 
L. Xylosteum chrysantha, Regel, Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Sci. St. 
Pétersb. 15 221 (1857). 
Caprifolium chrysanthum, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 13274 (1891). 
L. gibbiflora, Maximowicz, in herb.!, not Dippel. 
Northeastern Asia: Dahuria (Turczaninow!); Mand- 
shuria (Radde, Maximowicz, Korshinsky); Mongolia 
(David); China: Chihili (Tatarinow, Moellendorf) ; Sag- 
halin (Fr. Schmidt, Glehn).—Sometimes cultivated 
(Arnold Arboretum, etc. ). 
var. LONGIPES, Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 
24:44; Mél. Biol. 10:68 (1877). 
China: Kansu (Przewalski! Potanin, Ladygin). Japan: 
Hokkaido (Miyabe); Hondo (Faurie). 
Differs by 2-3 cm. long peduncles and the sparser and 
longer pubescence of the leaves. 
The following three forms are known to me only from 
cultivated plants : — 
f. Re@eniana, Zabel, Syst. Verz. Muenden 24 (1878). 
L. Regeliana, Kirchner, Arb, Musc. 4383 (1864). 
Differs from the type only in the smaller flowers. 
f. villosa, Hort. Bot. Petrop. 
Leaves smaller, less acuminate; leaves on both sides and 
branchlets villous-pubescent. Fruiting specimens were 
received from Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin of Paris and from 
Mr. J. Kesselring of St. Petersburg. 
_ f. Turkestanica, hort. 
Differs in the rather broad leaves being of thickish tex- 
ture, glaucescent beneath and nearly glabrous except a few 
