150 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Kuntze, 7. c., calls the form with pilose tube var. Lou- 
reirot, and that with glabrous tube var. oxylepis. 
113. L. acumryata, Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2. 
2:272 (1824); Cat. no. 472 (1828). — De Candolle, 
Prodr. 4:334 (1830).—Clarke, in Hooker, Fl. 
Brit. Ind. 3: 10 (1882). 
L. Loureiri, Hooker, f. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. Soc. 23172 (1858), 
not De Candolle. ' 
Xylosteum Loureiri, Blume, ex Hooker f. & Thomson, J. ¢. 
Caprifolium acuminatum normale, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1 ¢ 278 (1891). 
Himalayas: Nepal to Sikkim (Hooker, Treutler). — 
Rarely cultivated (Kew). | 
114. L. Giraldii, spec. nov. 
Twining shrub with slender branches, densely covered 
when young with yellowish spreading hairs as are the petioles 
and peduncles. Leaves short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate 
to lanceolate, acuminate, cordate at the base, 3.5-5.5 om. 
long, densely yellowish hirsute on both sides, the hairs 
appressed above, spreading beneath. Flowers in terminal, 
short and dense panicles; peduncles short; bracts subu- 
late, pilose, exceeding the ovaries about one-half; bractlets 
ovate, about one-third to one-half as long as the ovaries, 
ciliate and appressed pilose; ovaries glabrous; calyx 
teeth ovate-lanceolate, pilose, about one-half as long as 
the ovaries; corolla two-lipped, 2 cm. long, densely yel- 
lowish pilose without, tube slightly ventricose below the 
middle, somewhat longer than limb, hairy within; upper 
lip divided about one-third into 4 ovate lobes; the two 
longer stamens about as long as limb, the other slightly 
shorter, filaments sparingly pilose below the middle; style 
slightly longer than the corolla, pilose the whole length ; 
fruit unknown, probably black. — Plate 2. Sj. 14-17. 
China: Shensi (Giraldi, no. 117 in herb. Berlin) ; 
Szechuen (Farges, in herb. Paris). 
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