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LONICERA 



apex ; i| to i\ ins. long, about half as wide ; hairy on the margins, and 

 more or less so on both surfaces ; dark green above, greyish beneath ; stalk 

 | in. long. Flowers produced at the base of the young shoots at the 

 end of May ; corolla funnel-shaped, about I in. long, in. wide at the mouth, 

 yellow or yellowish white, the tube longer than the lobes. Each pair of 

 flowers is subtended by two roundish ovate membranous bracts up to I in. 

 long, edged with bristles ; stalk \ to \ in. long, bristly. 



Native of Turkestan ; introduced early last century. Interesting on 

 account of the large bracts. 



L. CH^ETOCARPA, Rehder (L. hispida var. chastocarpa, Bataliri}. Very 

 closely allied to hispida, and until recently regarded as a variety of it. 

 The leaves are very bristly on both surfaces, the bracts hairy outside. 



LONICERA IBERICA. 



(Fig. p. 45.) Flowers clear primrose-yellow with the ovary glandular and 

 bristly. A very distinct and pretty shrub, introduced by Wilson for Messrs 

 Veitch in 1904, from Central China. 



L. IBERICA, Bieberstein. 



A deciduous shrub, of dense, bushy, rounded habit, up to 10 ft. high 

 and 12 ft. through ; young shoots hairy. Leaves mostly heart-shaped, 

 sometimes roundish, the apex scarcely pointed ; dark dull green above, 

 grey beneath, both surfaces downy. On the vigorous barren shoots some 

 of the leaves are 2 ins. long and nearly as much wide ; on the flowering 

 branchlets they are mostly \ to I in. long ; stalk \ to \ in. long. Flowers 

 produced in pairs from the elnd and upper leaf-axils of short shoots ; corolla 



