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Closed calyx Liiglit purple or lilac-red, base gibbous, apex of the 

 sepals acuminate recurved, two lateral largest ; petals a little exsert 

 on a linear tortuous claw, lamina narrow spatulate, margin undulate. 



Mid-vein and veinlets purple, margins whitish. One pair of the 

 longer filaments usually united, another linear-sagittate. Siliques 

 long (two to two and one-half inches), narrow linear compressed, 

 recurved valves one-nerved, areolation tortuous. 



Seeds wing-margined ; funiculi free above, somewhat adnate at 

 the base. 



Specific name from the unusually tortuous lines of the areolar 

 reticulations. The specimens presented by Mr. C. D. Gibbs, from 

 the copper region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 



November 17, 1861. 

 President in the Chair. 

 Dr. Kellogg read the annexed paper : 



Lonicera intermedia, (Kellogg.) Fig. 47. 



Stem upright, glabrous, four-angled. 



Leaves deciduous, opposite, elliptic, acuminate or nearly ovate- 

 acuminate, margins minutely soft ciliate, pubescent beneath, paler 

 green, lamina thin, flaccid and veins prominent ; glabrous above, 

 petioles one-fourth to one-half an inch hi length, ciliate at the base. 



Peduncles Avinged, the margins stipitate glandular, short (about 

 one inch in length), two-flowered. 



Bracts four, in two pairs : the exterior ovate short-acuminate, 

 about nine-nerved, membranous, sparsely glandular hirsute ; in- 

 terior pair somewhat obcordatc, deeply two-lobed, enclosing the 

 ovaries and mature fruit, thick, fleshy, purple, densely stipitate 

 glandular (often divided quite down to the base). 



Corolla tul)ular, curved, somewhat irregular, border deeply lobed 

 the fifth inner lobe or lip somewhat smaller, or often partially devel- 

 oped, tube gibbous at the base (on the outside), slightly hirsvite 

 within, externally hirsute, a few glandular hairs and sessile glands 

 intermixed. 



Style sub-wmged above ; sparsely bearded below, as are the fila- 

 ments, scarcely exsert. 



Berries small, purple, distinct; very sparsely pubescent and 

 glandular in the embryo state, at length glabrous. 



This plant was sent to us by Mr. C. D. Gibbs. 

 Without the flower it might be easily mistaken for some forms of 

 L. involucrata. 



