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Lonicera shikokiana Makino, sp. nov. (Fig. XIX.) 

 Lonicera cerasina Maxim, in litt., non Mel. Biol. X. p. 64. 

 (1877). 



A deciduous shrub ; branches et branchlets terete, glabrous, 

 pale-drab, branchlets often opposite, erect-patent, the base of 

 young branchlet, which are green, with the bud-scales ; scales 

 imbricated, glabrous but ciliated on margin, lower ones smaller 

 and depressed-deltoid, middle ones deltoid to semiorbiculato- 

 deltoid or ovate, upper ones larger, thinner, elliptical to spathu- 

 late, membranaceous, the innermost one much larger and often 

 spathulato-linear, attaining about 15 mm. long. Leaves 



opposite, petiolate, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate with an obtuse or acute point, 

 usualh' acute or sometimes obtuse and not oblique at the 

 base, entire and ciliated with erect-patent hairs, thinly 

 membranaceous, concolorous, glabrous on both surfaces but 

 thinly pubescent towards the margin above, and very 

 thinly and minutely glandular on the midrib as w^ell as 

 the low^er portion of the lower veins above, 2|-7^ cm. 

 lonff and §-3i cm. broad in flow^er ; veins 4-8 on each 

 side, delicate, erect-patent, arcuate upwards ; veinlets incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole erect-patent canaliculate and very thinly 

 glandular in front, glabrous dorsally, 3-9 mm. long. Peduncle 

 axillar3', arising from the lower portion of the branchlets of 

 this year, gracile, glabrous, green, 5-9 mm. long ; bracts erect- 

 patent, filiform-linear, acute, thin, subhyaline, entire and thinly 

 glanduloso-ciliated, 1-nerved, longer than the ovary, 3-4 mm. 

 long ; bracteoles closely adpressed on the face of ovaries, 4 and 

 greatly connate in the lateral sides but slightly connate in the 

 front and back, as long as or somewhat shorter than the 

 ovary, oval, rounded at the apex, entire, concave, loosely 1-2- 

 nerved, glandular-cihated on margin and thinly glandular 

 towards the margin internally, glabrous externally, thinly her- 

 baceous. Flowers geminate, sessile, coetaneous, about 11-12 

 mm. long. Calyx minute, very thin, meniscoid, very short, 

 4-lobed with semiorbiculato-deltoid or semiorbiculate obtuse- or 

 acutish-tipped teeth and widely open sinuses, glabrous but 



