80 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



53627 to 53753— Continued. 



high, bear a single head of two flowers, although a lateral-flowered 

 branch sometimes develops. The short haft bears two central lines 

 and broken lateral veins of brown-purple on a clear-yellow ground. 

 The oblong-ovate blade of the falls is often very long and drooping, 

 of a clear, lemon-yellow color which becomes deeper around the 

 end of the style bi-anches and is there marked with brown-purple 

 veins. The oblanceolate yellow blade of the standards narrows to 

 a deeply channeled haft, yellow, shorter than the falls, and slightly 

 divergent. The broad, short-keeled, deep-yellow styles, often dis- 

 colored with purple, curve down on to the falls. Native to open 

 mountain pastures on the eastern flank of the Likiang Range in 

 northwestern Yunnan. China, at altitudes of 12.000 to l.S.OOO feec. 

 (Adapted from Dykes, The Genus Iris. p. 27.) 



53706. Ikis mellita Janka. 



A Balkan dwarf iris, native to Thrace and northeastern Asii 

 Minor, with thin swordlike leaves, occasionally tinged with red at 

 the edge, and 3 to 5 inches long. The cne-headed stem is from less 

 than an inch to 5 inches high. The whole plant closely resembles 

 Iris pumUa except that it has that look of refinement which is char- 

 acteristic of the Balkan as opposed to the Austrian and French 

 dwarf irises. The greenish tube. I2 to 2 inches long, is mottled 

 with purple. The falls are shorter and broader than the standards, 

 with the blade much reflexed and often pressed against the tube. 

 The gray-white haft is veined with red-brown. The pale, smoky 

 brown blade is veined with fine deep veins. About the end of the 

 beard the texture is more velvety and the color a warm red-purple 

 shot with electric blue. The conspicuous beard is composed of long, 

 thickset hairs, white at the base and blue above. The standards 

 are deeper in color than the falls and finely veined. At the base 

 the veins give place to small dots and blotches. The narrow gray- 

 white styles have a purple keel. (Adapted from Dykes, The Genus 

 Iris, p. 11,9.) 



53707 to 53716. Loniceba spp. Caprifoliacese. Honeysuckle. 



53707. Loniceba alpigena L. 



A deciduous shrub, 4 to 8 feet high, native to central Europe. 

 The yellow flowers, deeply tinged with retl, are borne in pairs. 

 The red, cherrylike fruit is half an inch long. (Adapted from Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 39.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 49i)i~. 



53708. Loniceba deflexicalyx Batal. 



A beautiful decidudus shrub native to China and Tibet: .showing 

 its yellow flowers to good advantage by producing them on the 

 upper side of the long, feathere<l branches. It grows 8 feet high 

 and has horizontal or drooping branches and purple young shoots. 

 The dull-green, downy leaves are grayish and hairy beneath, and 

 the fruits are orange-red. (Adapted from Bean, Trrr.i and i^hruhs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. .'fl.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 40186. 



53709. Loniceba dioica L. 



A low-spreading ornamental shrub or vine with yellow flowers 

 tinged with purple, and red berries ; native to eastern North America. 



53710. Loniceba lanceolata Wall. 



"A Himalayan species allied to Lonicera orientalis. The grayish 

 green leaves, 2 to 4 inches long, are pubescent beneath, particularly 

 on the veins. The fruits are black." {Alfred Itchder.) 



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53711. r>oNicEBA LONGA Rehder. 



An upright shrub with short branches appearing knotty on account 

 of very short internodes and persistent bud scales. The dull-green 



