160 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
Caprifolium Japonicum, Dumont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2. 7: 209 
(1814).— Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 53263 (1819). — Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. 13274 (1891). 
Nintooa Japonica, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2. 258 (1830). 
L. Cochinchinensis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard. Bot. 83447 (1834). 
L. repens, hort. Bogor. (Zippel), ex Hasskarl, Cat. Hort. Bogor. 116 
(1844); ex Miquel, Fl. Bot. Ind. 2 ; 127 (1856). 
L, acuminata Japonica, Miguel, Ann. Mus, Lugd. Bat. 2: 270 (1865- 
66); Prol. Fl. Jap. 158 (1866-67). 
Japan: Hondo (Wichura, Doenitz, Maximowicz, Rein, 
Sargent); Kiusiu (Naumann, Oldham). Formosa (Old- 
ham). Korea (Wilford). China: Shinking, Kiangsu, Chi- 
hili (ex Forbes & Hemsley); Shensi (Giraldi, nos, 109- 
114); Fokien (Fortune); Hupeh (Faber, Henry, Wilson, 
no. 244); Szechuen (Faber); Yunnan (Henry, Delavay, 
no. 1059, Ducloux, no. 425).—Often cultivated (Arnold 
Arboretum, etc.) and not infrequently escaped from cultiva- 
tion and naturalized in southeastern North America. 
This species is very variable and the most extreme forms 
appear rather distinct, but no constant characters can be 
found to keep separate the twe species proposed by Thun- 
berg. It seems, therefore, best to follow Maximowicz who 
unites them under L. Japonica. Chiefly from cultivated 
‘plants the forms enumerated below have been distinguished 
of which the var. Halliana seems to come nearest to the 
type of L. Japonica except that the flowers are usually 
white, while the var. Chinensis which has red flowers dif- 
fers from Thunberg’s description by the nearly glabrous 
leaves. Most Japanese specimens I have seen belong, 
according to the shape of the leaves and the short pedun- 
cles, to the var. flexuosa, but the leaves are usually 
pubescent on both sides at least when young, while in the 
cultivated plants of var. flexuosa the leaves are nearly 
glabrous. 
A. Leaves ovate, usually rounded or subcordate at the base, acute or 
even short acuminate; limb of corolla nearly as long as the tube,. 
upper lip deeply divided into narrowly oblong lobes; bractlets 
ovate; at least the lower peduncles longer than the petioles. 
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