SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 145 
LL. calcarata the tube is much shorter than the limb and 
has a long spur at the base; style glabrous or pubescent; 
fruit black, rarely white or yellow. 
A. Corolla with a long spur at the base, tube shorter than limb; 
ovaries connate; bractlets in connate pairs; bracts leaf-like, 
ovate; ovary 5-celled; fruit yellow. 18. Subsect. CaLcaRaTas£. 
AA. Corolla without spur; ovaries and bractlets distinct; ovaries 
8-celled, only occasionally 4—5-celled. 
B. Corolla scarcely exceeding 3 cm. in length, red, orange or 
yellowish-white; tube about as long as limb or slightly longer, 
sometimes ventricose below the middle; style hairy; bracts 
subulate; fruit black. 19. Subsect. BREVIFLORAE. 
BB. Corolla 4-16 cm. long (onlyin LZ. ferruginea 2.5cm. long), white or 
yellowish-white, changing to bright yellow; tube slender, not 
ventricose, longer than limb; style glabrous or short-pubes- 
cent (pilose only in Z. dasystyla) ; fruit black, rarely white. 
20. Subsect. LONGIFLORAE. 
Subsect. 18. Calearatae, subsect. nov. 
Here belongs only one species from China, distinguished 
from all other Loniceras by the long-spurred corolla and 
the 5-celled ovary; from the other species of the section 
Nintooa also by the connate ovaries and bractlets. A high 
climbing glabrous shrub with ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 
acuminate leaves 6-14 cm. long; flowers in axillary pairs; 
corolla yellowish-red, about 3 cm. long, the spur 1.5 cm. 
long; style and filaments pilose at the base. 
103. L. catcaraTa, Hemsley in Hooker, Ic. Pl. 27. pil. 
2632 (1900). 
China: Szechuen (Henry, no. 8937!) ; Yunnan (Henry, 
nos. 10721! 10721A!). 
Subsect. 19. Breviflorae, subsect. nov. 
A group of 11 species distributed from central Asia and 
the Himalayas south to the Malayan Archipelago. The 
species are twining or rarely creeping shrubs, usually with 
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