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two-lipped, | in. long and the same wide, pale yellow, not fragrant, downy 

 outside, the tube curved and about as long as the slightly lobed limb. 

 Bracts like the leaves but ovate, and j to i in. long ; flower-stalk very 

 short. 



Native of the Caucasus, Persia, etc. ; introduced in 1824. A very robust 

 shrub of neat habit, free-flowering without being showy. Botanically, it 

 is distinguished by the bractlets coalescing into a cup-shaped organ 

 enveloping the two ovaries, which, however, grow 7 out of the cup and develop 

 into bright red berries. 



L. IMPLEXA, Solander. MINORCA HONEYSUCKLE. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 640.) 



An evergreen climber, 8 ft. or more high, with slender, purplish, usually 

 smooth young shoots. Leaves oval, ovate or oblong, stalkless, blunt or 

 pointed, f to 2 ins. long, i- to i in. wide ; very glaucous beneath, smooth* The 

 uppor pairs of leaves are united at the base so as to form a kind of cup- 

 shaped bract, in the axils of which the stalkless flowers are produced in a whorl. 

 Corolla i^ to 2 ins. long, yellow suffused with pink outside, white within, 

 changing to yellow. 



Native of S. Europe; introduced in 1772. It is a pretty honeysuckle, but 

 rather tender and slow-growing, and best with the shelter of a west wall. It 

 flowers from June to August. It probably grows much higher in its native 

 haunts. 



L. ITALICA, Tausch. 



(L. americana, K. Koch.) 



This interesting and beautiful woodbine is a hybrid between L. Caprifolium 

 and L. etrusca, with both of which it is often confused. It has most resem- 

 blance to L. Caprifolium in growth and foliage ; young stems purple, smooth. 

 The uppermost pairs of leaves unite into a cup, as in L. Caprifolium, but the 

 lower ones differ in being more pointed. Flowers in whorls not confined 

 (as in L. Caprifolium) to the axils of the connate leaves, but with several 

 other whorls above them springing from the axils of small bracts. Corolla 

 2 ins. long, yellow more or less suffused with reddish purple, the tube slender, 

 usually glandular. Downy outside, the two lips giving a diameter of i to 

 ii ins. 



The origin of this lovely hybrid is not known, but it existed in the 

 time of Linnaeus, who confused it with L Caprifolium. According to Rehder, 

 it is very rare in a wild state, but has been found in S. and S.E. Europe, 

 although even there possibly as an escape from cultivation. It is a very effective 

 climber, the terminal part of the shoot often branching and forming a panicle 

 over i ft. long and 8 in. through. Several forms of it are cultivated, such 

 as var. ATROSANGUINEA, with dark red-purple flowers ; var. QUERCIFOLIA, 

 with leaves shaped like those of an oak ; var. RUBELLA, with pale purplish 

 flowers. 



L. JAPONICA, Thunberg. 



An evergreen climber of vigorous habit, growing 20 to 30 ft. high ; stems 

 hollow, twining, hairy. Leaves ovate, oval or oblong, somewhat rounded or 

 broadly wedge-shaped at the base, pointed, i^ to 3^ ins. long, half as wide ; 

 occasionally wavy or lobed at the margin, more or less downy sometimes on 

 both sides. Flowers fragrant, produced from June onwards in pairs from 

 the leaf-axils of the young shoots, towards the end of which they are often 

 much crowded ; flower-stalk ^ to f in. long, carrying two ovate bracts similar 



