LONICERA 



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midrib and chief veins sparsely downy beneath ; leaf-stalk hairy, ^ in. long. 

 Flowers pale yellow, not fragrant, borne in pairs from the leaf-axils on slightly 

 downy stalks, in. long ; corolla f in. long, two-lipped, the tube not so long as 

 the lips, hairy within and without ; stamens and style hairy at the base ; 

 bracts linear, hairy, \ in. long ; bractlets rounded, ciliate. Berries distinct 

 egg-shaped, reddish, ] to ?. in. long. 



Native of W. China ; discovered and introduced by Wilson about 1904. 

 It does not promise to be of any special beauty in flower, but its prostrate 

 habit is distinct, and will make it useful for ground covering. It thrives in the 

 Coombe Wood nursery, where it flowers about the beginning of June. 



L. PURPURASCENS, Walpers. 



A sturdy bush, 3 to 5 ft. high ; young shoots stiff, purplish, covered with a 

 soft, fine down. Leaves oblong or somewhat obovate, tapered or bluntish at 

 the apex, rounded or tapered at the base ; I to 2 ins. long, \ to I in. wide ; 

 dull green above, grey beneath, downy on both surfaces but especially 



LOXICERA PYRENAICA. 



beneath ; stalk \ to in. long, downy, purplish. Flowers in pairs from 

 the leaf-axils on a slender downy stalk, \ in. or more long. Corolla f in. 

 long, with five short nearly equal lobes, which are purple ; the tube paler, 

 hairy, funnel-shaped, and protruded at the base ; bracts awl-shaped. Berries 

 more or less united, blue-black. 



Native of the Himalaya up to altitudes of 13,000 ft., and very hardy ; 

 introduced to Kew in 1884. A neat bush with a purplish cast, but of 

 little merit. 



L. PYRENAICA, Linnceus. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7774.) 



A deciduous shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, branches erect ; free from down in all 

 its parts. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, tapered to a stalkless base, abruptly 

 pointed, f to \\ ins. long, j to in. wide; glaucous, especially beneath. 

 Flowers produced during May and June in pairs from the terminal leaf-axils 

 of short branchlets or the lower leaf-axils of stronger ones, each pair subtended 



