Lonicera."] LXXIV. CAPRIFOLIACEJJ. (C. B. Clarke.) 15 



Corolla-tube % by ^ in., base gibbous, glabrous without, hairy within ; lobes in., 

 red-purple. Style shortly exsert, hairy to the summit. Drupes distinct or completely 

 confluent. 



/3. Bracteoles small or 0, except 21. L. orientalis. 



20. Ii. microphylla, Wittd. ; Jfoem. 8f #c7ew#. y*. v. 258 j leaves small 

 oblong or obovate pubescent beneath, peduncles -1 in., bracts - in. linear, 

 bracteoles 0, calyx-limb truncate. DC. Prodr. iv. 336; H. f. fy T. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 171. L. Sieversiana, Bunge Verz. Altai-Gel). 18. 



WESTERN TIBET; Kashmir to the Karakorum, alt. 11-14,000 ft., frequent. 

 DISTRIB. Northward to the Altai Mts. 



A small, erect, shrub ; branchlets glabrous or nearly so. Leaves subsessile, -f 

 by \-^ in., obtuse, base narrowed. Peduncle minutely pubescent, slender. Corolla- 

 tube i by -|- in., base gibbous, glabrous without sparsely pilose within ; teeth in., 

 suberect. Style subexsert, very hairy below. Berries in., ellipsoid ; usually connate 

 half-way. 



21. Xi. orientalis, Lamk. Diet. i. 731 ; leaves ovate-lanceolate acute 

 finely nerved above more or less pubescent beneath, peduncles ^-1 in. pubes- 

 cent, calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate, corolla glabrous without or nearly so, tube 

 short. DC. Prodr. iv. 337 ; Jaub. fy Spach. III. t. 71 ; H. f. fy T. in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. ii. 170 ; Boiss. Fl Or. iii. 8 ; Brandts For. Fl. 256. L. Govaniana, 

 Wall. Cat. 481 ; DC. I. c. 337. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-11,000 ft.; from Kashmir common, rarer eastward, 

 to Kumaon. DISTRIB. Western Asia. 



A large shrub or tree, 25 ft., branches horizontal, flattened. Leaves 2^ by l-l 

 in., acute, mucronate hardly acuminate, base narrowed or scarcely obtuse, midrib 

 above pubescent, nerves fine and elevated when dried, beneath dotted and more or 

 less pubescent; petiole ^- in. Peduncle stout, or slightly flattened, thickened 

 upwards. Bracts -| in., linear-lanceolate ; bracteoles or small, but in the Kashmir 

 arboreous form larger, well-marked even in fruit. Corolla-tube ^ in., base gibbous ; 

 limb % in., pink. Style hairy, usually to the summit. Berries generally confluent. 



VAR. discolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xxxiii. 1847, t. 44 (sp.); leaves glaucous 

 beneath. H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 171. Kashmir, alt. 9-11,000 ft., 

 Thomson. Lindley's figure shows the corolla glabrous without, the calyx-teeth not 

 shorter than occurs in L. orientalis. This agrees perfectly with Thomson's examples. 

 But with these occur (as L. discolor) plants with pubescent leaves and corollas, which 

 we refer to L. 



22. It. heterophylla, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 80, t. 89 ; glabrous or 

 nearly so, leaves narrow oblong reticulate-nerved beneath, peduncle 1 in., 

 calyx-teeth short-triangular, corolla sparsely pilose, tube short. H. f. fy T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 170. 



WESTERN ALPINE HIMALAYA and W. TIBET ; KASHMIR ; Choupienne, Jacquemont ; 

 Burjila and Karakorum, alt. 12,000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 



An erect shrub, 3 ft., branches glabrous, rigid, ascending. Leaves 2% by -1 in., 

 ,upper narrow-oblong, narrowed at both ends, margin irregularly sinuate or sublobate, 

 above glabrous, even on the midrib ; petiole in. Peduncles rigid, compressed, 

 thickened upwards, scarcely pubescent. Bracts | in., linear. Corolla nearly of L. 

 orientalis. Style hairy to the summit. Drupes \ by in., never connate. Appears 

 distinct from every form of L. orientalis ; but when Hk.f. $ T. suggested it might be 

 a variety thereof, they had seen no specimens. 



23. Xi. alpig-ena, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 336; leaves elliptic or oblong 

 acute or acuminate pilose beneath, peduncles 1-2 in., calyx-tube pubescent limb 



