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Japan. Suruga prov.: Fuji-san, northern slopes, woods, common, 1000 m. alt. 

 Jmie 1, 1914, £. //. Wilson (No. 6908, bush 2-4 m. tall and as much through ; 

 flowers yellow). Kai prov.: Yatsugadake, forests, common, alt. lGOO-2300 m,, 

 September 17, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7539; bush 1-2 m., much branched, fruit 

 brilliant scarlet). 



This new species is closely related to i. chrysantha Turcz. and L. Morrowii 

 A, Gray; from both it is distinguished at the first glance by its much smaller 

 leaves, smaller flowers and smaller fruits. The chief characters in which 

 i. chrysantha diflPers are the larger, elongated and pubescent winter-buds, 

 the much larger leaves, the larger flowers, shorter stamens, shorter bractlets, 

 the densely glandular and scarcely pubescent usually ovoid ovary, while 

 Z. Morrowii differs chiefly in the larger, generally oblong leaves, larger 

 flowers with deeply divided upper lip, shorter stamens wdth glabrous fila- 

 ments and in the densely pubescent longer bractlets. 



Lonicera demissa was introduced into cultivation by Mr. Wilson who sent 

 seeds in 1914 from Yatsugadake. The plants raised at the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum have proved perfectly hardy and flowered for the first time in 1919 

 and more profusely in 1920. Though the shrub has perhaps less claim than 

 most of the related species to ornamental qualities, the dense habit and the 

 bright green foliage are pleasing features and the brilliant scarlet fruits, 

 when produced in abundance, wull probably make the shrub attractive in 

 autumn, 



MISCELLANEOUS GENERA 



Physocarpus intermedius Schneid. f. parvifolius, forma nov. 



A typo recedit statura humiliore, ramulis congestis adscendentibus, foliis 

 et floribus minorlbus. — Frutex humilis, ramis erectis, ramulis congestis 

 subereotis dense foliosis praeditus; folia minora, ovata ad obovata, acuta, 

 basi cuneata v. rarius rotundata, ramulorum floriferorum 0.8-2 cm., turi- 

 onum ad 4.5 cm. longa, breviter lobulata; flores minores; bracteae persist- 

 entes; calyx extus glaber; sepala triangularia, margine et intus villosula; 

 petala elliptica, 3 mm. longa, extus medio rubescentia, in alabastro rosea; 

 stamina petalis paulo longiora, antheris fusco-purpureis; carpella 3, rarius 

 4, villosa, stylis stamina subaequantibus- 



Cvltivated at the Arnold Arboretum; specimens seen: Capitol Nurseries, Topeka, 

 Kansas, June 1918, J. H. Skinner & Co. (t}T)e); Stark Bro's Nurseries, Louisiana, 

 Missouri, June 10, 1918; Arnold Arboretum, June 19, 1920. 



This form is very distinct in its habit and in the smallness of all its parts 

 from P. intermedius with which it agrees in the more important morpholog- 

 ical characters. As it grows in this Arboretum it forms a low shrub now 

 about one meter tall with many upright stems each with numerous rather 

 short ascending branchlets densely clothed w^ith small, bright green leaves. 

 The small pinkish flowers are borne in dense clustcrs^l.5~2.5 cm, in diameter* 



The dense, regular, and distinctly upright habit, the i)leasing bright 

 green color of its small foliage and the pinkish flower clusters make this 

 new variety attractive and valuable as a distinct ornamental shrub. 



{To be continued) 



