Lonicera, pentandria monogynia. 53? 



China, I presume, as there are some plants in the Botanic gar- 

 den brought thence. Flowering time the beginning of the 

 hot season ; fruit ripe in three or four months afterwards. 



Trunk irregular, which with the branches is armed with 

 strong-, straight, opposite, or three-fold thorns. Leaves op- 

 posite, and three-fold, short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, 

 smooth, from three to four inches long-. Stipules opposite, 

 and three-fold, within the leaves as in Gardenia. Flotvers 

 axillary, fascicled on a common short peduncle, with proper, 

 longer pedicels, small, of a pale greenish colour. Calyx five- 

 toothed. Corol one-petalled. Tube sub-globular ; mouth 

 shut with much long, white hair ; border generally five-part- 

 ed, spreading. Filaments five, very short, inserted into the 

 mouth of the tube of the corol. Anthers small, cordate. Germ 

 inferior, turbinate, four or five-celled, with one ovulum in 

 each, attached to the axis a little above the middle. Style 

 so lono- as to elevate its large glandular four or five-lobed 

 stigma just above the anthers. Berry or rather drupe round, 

 turbinate, size of a cherry, smooth, when ripe yellow, suc- 

 culent, and edible. Seeds four or five, obliquely oblong, in- 

 ner edge narrower and straight. Integuments two ; exterior a 

 hard, dark-coloured nut ; interior membranaceous. Perisperm 

 conform to the seeds, amygdaline. Embryo inverse, a little 

 curved. Cotyledons scarcely so long as the radicle, lanceo- 

 late. Radicle columnar, superior. 



Obs. The fruit is eaten by the natives. Its flowers come 

 exceedingly near to those of my Canthium parviflorum, as 

 does also the whole habit of the plant. 



LONICERA. Schreb. gen. N. 319. 

 Corol one-petalled, irregular. Berry inferior, two-celled, 

 many-seeded. 



1. L. quinquelocnlaris. Hardwicke in Asiat. Res. vi. 351. 

 Shrubby. Leaves petioled, elliptic, acute, entire, villous. 



