176 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 
spring sometimes more crowded or somewhat larger, and fine 
medullary rays; rather slender round or squarish twigs; more or 
less angled sometimes evanescent pith; somewhat raised opposite 
crescent-shaped or 3-angled leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces; no 
stipule-scars; ovoid or conical sessile buds often superposed and 
the lowermost then largest; simple entire short-stalked or sessile 
moderate leaves; perfect tubular moderate-sized sometimes very 
fragrant flowers often in axillary pairs; and berry-like fruit. 
tL. Btshy: 2. 
Twining or trailing. 6. 
2. Pith continuous: no end-bud: flowering before leaves. 3. 
Pith excavated. 4. 
3. Twigs retrorsely bristly. L. Standishii. 
Twigs glabrate. L. fragrantissima. 
4. Twigs glabrate. Ly tatarica, 
Twigs pubescent. 5. 
5. Lower surface of leaves short-pubescent. L. Xylosteum. 
Leaves with rather long hairs beneath. L. Morrowii. 
6. Upper leaves’ joined in pairs. 7. 
Leaves not united by their bases. 9. 
7. Corolla nearly regular, with short lobes: partly evergreen. 8. 
Corolla deeply 2-lipped. L. Caprifolium. 
8. Flowers bright red. L. sempervirens. 
Flowers bright yellow. L. sempervirens flava. 
g. Very glaucous. L. Periclymenum. 
Little if at all glaucous. Io, 
10. Leaves not variegated. II. 
Leaves golden-veined. L. japonica aureo-reticulata. 
11. Flowering in summer. L. japonica. 
Flowering in autumn. L. japonica Halliana. 
DieERVILLA. Bush Honeysuckle. 
Deciduous shrubs with rather stout twigs with 2 or 3 often 
hairy longitudinal lines; roundish homogeneous pale pith; rather 
low triangular leaf-scars, opposite or in whorls of 3, with 3- 
bundle-traces and with transverse or decurrent lines from their 
angles; no stipule-scars; oblong mostly appressed solitary sessile 
