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LONICERA diversifolia. 

 Various-leaved Fly Honey suckle^ 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Caprifoliace^. 

 LONICERA, Supra, vol. 14. ^. 11/9. 



§ Chamsecerasus ; baccis liberis, coi'ollis hasi vix gihbis. 



L. diversifolia ; erecta, dense pubescens, foliis ovatis cordatisque oblongis 

 acutis breviter petiolatis, floribus geminis et quaternatis pubescentibus 

 siibsessilibus oninino liberis, calyce cyathiformi 5-dentato, corollse tubo 

 bine convexo limbo breviore, filamentis basi villosis. 



L. diversifolia, Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. 169. DeCand. prodr. 4. 334. 



In many respects this Himalayan shrub is much hke the 

 common Fly Honeysuckle (L. Xylosteum) ; from which it 

 principally differs in its flowers being nearly or quite stalkless, 

 and much larger. Dr. Wallich first received it from the 

 mountains of Gurwhal ; he afterwards procured it from 

 Kamaon ; according to Dr. Royle it is common on the moun- 

 tains of the North of India. In a wild state it sometimes 

 becomes small-leaved, and approaches the common Xylo- 

 steum, but its stalkless flowers still distinguish it. 



By some mistake it is included by DeCandolle among 

 his Nintooas, a set of climbing 2-flowered species which 

 belong to the genus Caprifolium. 



This is a hardy middle sized shrub, which thrives in any 

 good garden soil, and flowers during the months of May and 

 June. It is easily increased by- cuttings of the half ripe 

 wood, if treated in the same way as those of the common 

 Honeysuckle, It was raised from seeds received from Dr. 

 lloyle from the North of India. 



There is also in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, 

 where the accompanying drawing was made, another Indian 

 species of this genus, very distinct from any thing hitherto 



