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especially beneath. The lower leaves of the shoot are stalked, the higher 

 pairs are sessile ; finally, the uppermost one to three pairs are united round the 

 stem, each pair forming a cup, and in their axils the flowers are borne. 

 Flowers in whorls, fragrant, produced from June onwards. Corolla yellowish 

 white, tinged with pink, i to 2 ins. long, two-lipped, the tube slender. Fruit 

 orange-coloured. 



Native of Europe, naturalised in Britain, possibly wild in the,south-east of 

 England ; also naturalised in the eastern United States. This beautiful 

 fragrant honeysuckle differs from L. Periclymenum in the uppermost pairs of 

 leaves (in whose axils the flowers are borne) being united. It is often con- 

 fused with L. italica (y.-z/.), a hybrid between itself and L. etrusca, and a still 

 more ornamental climber. 



L. CILIOSA, Poiret. WESTERN TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. 



A twining honeysuckle of the same group as L. sempervirens, but differing 

 in having leaves hairy on the margins, but otherwise smooth ; the style also 

 is hairy. Leaves ovate or oval, 2 to 3 ins. long, glaucous beneath, the upper 

 pairs united by their bases round the stem. Flowers ij to i|- ins. long, yellow 

 or orange scarlet, sometimes purplish, downy outside ; they are produced in 

 a terminal stalked spike of several whorls. Corolla slightly two-lipped, more 

 so than in L. sempervirens. 



Native of Western N. America from British Columbia southwards ; 

 introduced in 1824, but now very rare in gardens. 



L. DEFLEXICALYX, Batalin. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8536.) 



A deciduous shrub of elegant spreading habit ; branches often horizontal 

 or drooping, the branchlets in opposite rows ; young shoots purple, downy. 

 Leaves i^ to 3 ins. long, scarcely half as wide, rounded at the base, narrowly 

 ovate, pointed, dull green and downy above, greyish and hairy beneath, 

 especially when young ; stalk -^ in. long. Flowers in pairs from each axil 

 along the branchlets, all expanding upwards ; corolla yellow, f in. long, downy 

 outside, the lower lip much deflexed, tube shorter than the lobes ; stamens 

 hairy at the base, style wholly hairy ; stalk | in. long ; fruit orange-red. 



Native of China and Thibet ; introduced in 1904. A strikingly elegant, 

 free-growing shrub, very hardy and floriferous, showing its flowers to good 

 advantage by producing them on the upper side of the long feathered branches. 

 It flowers in May and June, and grows probably 8 ft. or so high. (Fig. p. 42.) 



L. DELAVAYI, Franchet. 



Little is known of this species in cultivation as yet. It was sent to Kew 

 in 1907 from France by Mr Maurice de Vilmorin, who had received it from 

 W. China in 1901, and with whom it first flowered three years later. It is a 

 climber of the same group as L. japonica. Its leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 

 rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, taper-pointed ; 2 to 5 ins. long, 

 | to 2 ins. wide ; smooth above, grey-felted beneath ; stalk \ to -in. long. Flowers 

 sweet-scented, in axillary pairs, and at the end of the shoot forming a kind of 

 panicle. The corolla is pale yellow, and has a very slender cylindrical tube 

 2 ins. long, and a two-lipped apex ; the larger lip f in. long, with four 

 short lobes, the smaller one linear ; calyx-lobes awl-shaped, edged with hairs. 

 The species was originally discovered in Yunnan by the Abbe Delavay, in 

 1888. 



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