SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 201 
This group contains only one species which seems to be 
restricted to the Kuram Valley of Afghanistan. A twining 
shrub with glabrous branches and glabrous leaves, the 
lower ones slender petioled, those of the uppermost pair 
short-petioled and usually suborbicular; flowers in dense 
peduncled solitary heads; bractlets of each whorl connate 
into a cupula about as high as the ovaries; calyx rather 
large, pilose, also ovaries and usually the cupula sparingly 
pilose and glandular; corolla two-lipped, about 2.5 cm. 
long, tube about as long as limb, glandular and pilose with- 
out, glabrous within; style pilose about the middle. 
154. L. GrirritHu, Hooker f. & Thomson, Jour. Bot. Linn. 
Soc. 2:173 (1858), — Aitchison, Jour. Bot. Linn. 
Soc. 18:64 (1881).—Buser in Boissier, Flor. Or. 
Suppl. 275 (1888).—Rehder in Sargent, Trees & 
Shrubs 1:47. pl. 24 (1902). 
Afghanistan (Griffith! Aitchison).— Rarely cultivated 
(Darmstadt, ex Purpus, Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 10: 45). 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
155. L. sprec., Faurie, no. 7380 (Japan, Montagne de 
Riishi), in herb. Paris. 
Glabrous; leaves oval to ovate, 2—2.5 cm. long, short- 
petioled; peduncles in the axils of the upper leaves, 6-8 
mm. long; bracts about half as long as the ovaries, ob- 
tusish; bractlets wanting; ovaries nearly connate; calyx 
teeth ovate, short; corolla (in bud) gibbous at the base. 
Apparently belonging to the subsection Purpurascentes 
near L. linderifolia. 
156. L. spec., Potanin, Kansu (fluv. Pei-shu, 22/6 1885), 
in herb. Petrop. 
Branchlets and petioles puberulous when young; leaves 
