1 84 C APRIFOLI ACE^. 



Species about 80 in the temperate regions of Europe, Asia 

 and America. Not in the southern hemisphere. In Europe 

 we have the English common and Fly Honeysuckles, Ger. 

 Geiss blatt, Fr. Chevre feuille. 



Straggling plant. Corolla i to 2 inches . . L. leschenaultii. 

 Erect shrub. Corolla ^ inch L. ligustrina. 



The genus is divided into a number of subgenera and sections according 

 to the habit of the plant, whether erect or straggling, then arrangement of the 

 pairs of flowers, the bracts, the lobes of the corolla and other differences. 

 Of our species L. lesch. belongs to the § nintooa and L. lig. to § isikia. 



Lonicera leschenaultii Wall, Cat. 471 ! ; F.B.I, iii 10, 

 VI I ; common Honeysuckle. A straggling shrub with 

 reddish brown bark on the main stem, and the younger 

 parts, calyx and underside of leaves covered with short 

 white hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to lanceolate, 2 to 3 

 by l/^ to 2j^ inches, dull green above, white below, 

 veins and reticulations impressed on the upper, raised 

 on the lower side. Flowers in pairs, on peduncles of ^ 

 inch, in the axils of the uppermost leaves, often forming 

 terminal, leafy bunches or occasionally the pairs soli- 

 tary on short axillary branches. Calyx 1/16 inch, and 

 teeth 1/20 inch white tomentose. Corolla white, turning 

 cream colour, tube lJ4 inches, slender, erect, as also in 

 bud ; upper lip I by ^ inch, obtuse, curved back in a 

 circle ; lower four-lobed, slightly longer and less curved, 

 J4 inch wide at the top, the two lateral lobes wider 

 than the middle ones, fitting inside them, as also one of 

 the middle lobes inside the other, by small backward 

 directed teeth. Filaments of stamens long. Fruits in 

 pairs, globular, the size of a small pea, crowned by the 

 calyx, t. 135. Wight 111. ii. t. 120 (not I2I-B.). 



In thickets and straggling over small trees on the edges of 

 sholas. Common. Nilgiris : Ootacamund and below. Pul- 

 neys : below Kodaikanal. At level of Shembaganur, etc. Fyson 

 408, 492, 662, 3047. 



Gen, Dist. South Indian mountains, Mysore, Coorg. 



