16 LXXTV. CAPRiFOLiACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lonicera. 



short, corolla glandular-hairy, tube very short. Reich. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1173^ 

 H. f. 8f T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 171 ; Soiss. FL Orient, iii. 8 ; Srandis For. 

 FL 256. L. Webbiana, Wall. Cat. 476 ; DC. L c. 336. L. oxyphylla, Edgw. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 60. 



KASHMIR to KUMAON, alt. 9-12,000 ft. ; Blinkworth, &c. DISTRIB. European 

 Alps. 



A large shrub ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 4 by 1-2 in., base rounded or 

 cuneate, hairy or glabrate above, with pubescent nerves ; nervation not prominent on 

 either surface ; petiole | in. Peduncle stout, flattened, slightly thickened upwards, 

 nearly glabrous. Bracts in., lanceolate or linear; bracteoles very small. Corolla 

 nearly as in L. orientalis. Drupes free in the Indian specimens. Not a Bhotan 

 plant (as stated by Hook. f. and Thomson). 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



LONICERA FINLAYSONIANA, Wall. Cat. 6302, was perhaps collected in Cochin- 

 China : the specimen is poor, and may be L. confusa, DC. 



L. CHINENSIS, CONFTJSA and LONGIFOLIA, mentioned by Eoyle (EL 236) as common 

 to the Himalaya, China, and Japan, are probably referable to L. macrantha, DC. 



7. LEYCESTERIA, Watt. 



Under-shrubs, with fistular stems and branches. Leaves opposite, distichous, 

 caudate-acuminate, membranous, glaucous beneath, exstipulate or with very 

 small stipules, entire or toothed. Flowers whorled, in terminal or axillary erect 

 or drooping spikes subtended by small or large foliaceous bracts, 2-bracteolate. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid, limb unequally 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 gibbously swollen at the base and limb subequally 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the throat of the corolla. Ovary 6-8-celled ; style slender, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell. Berry oblong or subglobose, 5-8-celled,, 

 many-seeded. Seeds minute, testa crustaceous shining. 



1. L. form os a, Wall, in Eoxb. FL Ind. ed. Wall, fy Carey, ii. 181; PL 

 As. Rar. ii. 20, t. 120 ; Cat. 470 ; branches stout, leaves ovate toothed, bracts 

 large leafy, ovarv 5-celled. Sot. May. t. 3099 : Wight III. ii. t. 121 D. Srandis 

 For. FL 256. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-10,000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 5-6000 ft., #./. $ T. 



Branching from the base, branches 6 ft. Leaves 2-5 by 1-3 in., broadly ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate long acuminate, entire or irregularly toothed, white and more or less 

 puberulous beneath, base rounded subacute or cordate ; petiole -1 in. Spikes 2 in., 

 pubescent ; bracts cordate laxly leafy, often purplish ; bracteoles variable. Flowers 

 glandular, puberulous. Corolla .5-! in., purplish-pink. Style glabrous. Berry 

 subglobose, red. Flowers rarely 3-4-merous. 



Zi. g-laucophylla, Hook. /. ; branches slender, leaves lanceolate. 

 3-toothed, bracts much shorter than the flowers, berry 7-8-celled. Loni- 



2. 



sinuate-tootl 



cera glaucophylla, If. f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 165; Gard. Chron. 1858, 

 700, with Jig. "L. gracilis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1870, pt. ii. 77. Pentapyxis 

 ep., Hook.f. in Gen. PL ii. 6. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-6000 ft. ; Yoksun, J. D. H. Simonbong, Kurz. 

 A much more slender plant than L. formosa, with narrower shorter-petioled 

 leaves, and small axillary few-flowered spikes of puberulous flowers, the bracts of which, 



