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CAPRIFOLIACEjE. V. LONICERA. 



Leaves 3-5 inches long : petioles half an inch long. At the 

 apex of the peduncles there is usually an involucrum of 6 small 

 bracteas, which are hairy. Flowers like those of L. Xylosteum, 

 and about the same size ; they are yellow, tinged with pale 

 purple, slightly hairy on the outside. Calycine segments lan- 

 ceolate, ciliated, bluntish. Style and filaments hairy. 

 Acuminate-leaved Honeysuckle. Shrub tw. 



27 L. DIVERSIFOLIA (Wall, in Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 178.) 

 branches twining ; leaves ovate, cuspidate, acute, or acumin- 

 ated, rounded or subcordate at the base, pubescent above, 

 villous beneath ; peduncles axillary, shorter than the petioles, 

 2-flowered ; calyx cup-shaped, acutely 5-lobed ; corolla gibbous, 

 funnel-shaped, villous ; ovaries villous. ^ . ^\ H. Native of 

 the East Indies, on Mount Gurval. Branches villous. Leaves 

 3 inches long, on very short petioles. Peduncles smooth. 

 Bracteas ciliated with long hairs. Flowers resembling those of 

 L. Xylosteum both in size and colour. 



Far. ft, Royleana (Wall. cat. no. 487. D. C. prod. 4. p. 334.) 

 leaves oval ; peduncles length of petioles. T? . ^\ H. Native 

 of Nipaul, on Sirmore and Karnaon. 



Diverse-leaved Honeysuckle. Shrub tw. 



28 L. LIGUSTKINA (Wall, in Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 179.) branches 

 slender, twining, covered with ash-grey, shining, smooth bark ; 

 young shoots villous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, hardly petiolate, 

 shining, ciliated, obtuse at the base, acute at the apex ; pedun- 

 cles villous, axillary, very short, 2-flowered ; limb of calyx 

 truncate ; berries distinct, and are as well as the ovaries covered 

 by a common membrane. tj . ^. H. Native of Nipaul, on 

 the mountains, in woods. Xylosteum ligustrinum, D. Don, 

 prod. fl. nep. p. 140. X. Naisoca, Hamilt. mss. ex D. Don, 

 1. c. Young shoots surrounded at the base with some lan- 

 ceolate, acute, quadrifariously imbricated bud-scales. Leaves 

 dark green above, pale and reticulated beneath ; petioles vil- 

 lous. Bracteas 2 at the apex of each peduncle. Corollas 

 yellowish-white, funnel-shaped, half an inch long; tube gib- 

 bous and pubescent at the base, villous within : limb nearly 

 equal, spreading, divided into 5 ovate, obtuse, ciliated segments. 

 Filaments smooth, about the length of the limb of the corolla. 

 Ovaries distinct, 3 celled ; cells 3-seeded. 



Privet-leaved Honeysuckle. Shrub tw. 



29 L. LANCEOLA'TA (Wall, in Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 177.) stems 

 almost erect, bushy ? leaves lanceolate, acuminated, hairy, acute 

 at the base and glaucous beneath ; peduncles axillary, longer 

 than the petioles, and like them villous ; berries distinct, glo- 

 bose, smooth ; bracteas 2 linear and 4 ovate. Jj . H. Native 

 of Nipaul, at Gosaingsthan. Stem covered with fibrous epi- 

 dermis, probably erect. Branches slender, pubescent. Leaves 

 pubescent above and shining, glaucous and hairy beneath, with 

 somewhat repand margins. Petioles short. Berries the size 

 and colour of black currants, smooth, crowned, 3-celled, sup- 

 ported by 2 linear and 4 ovate bracteas, the latter recurved and 

 shorter. 



Lanceolate-leaved Honeysuckle. Shrub erect ? 



30 L. CANE'SCENS (Schousb. mar. 1. p. 88.) branches twining, 

 and are as well as the leaves canescent from down ; leaves pe- 

 tiolate, ovate, cordate, bluntish ; peduncles 2-flowered, longer 

 than the petioles ; bracteas and lobes of calyx oblong. ^ . ^. H. 

 Native of hedges about Mogodor, and on Mount Trara in Mauri- 

 tania; and of Sicily at Palermo, ex Guss. fl. sic. 1. p. 250. 

 L. biflora, Desf. fl. all. 1. p. 184. t. 52. Corolla bilabiate, 

 attenuated at the base, velvety on the outside. Berries nearly 

 distinct. 



Canescent Honeysuckle. Shrub tw. 



2. CiiamcEcerasi (The name signifies a kind of false cherry ; 

 die fruit of some of the species resemble cherries). D. C. prod. 



4. p. 335. Berries distinct, but usually connected together at the 

 base, and diverging at the apex. Corolla hardly gibbous at the 

 base or equal. Erect bushy shrubs. 



31 L. TATA'RICA (Lin. spec. 1. p. 247.) quite glabrous, erect ; 

 leaves cordate-ovate, hardly acute ; peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves ; berries distinct while young, and nearly globose, but 

 at length connate at the base. Tj . H. Native of Tartary. 

 Pall. fl. ross. t. 36. Jacq. icon. rar. t. 37. Ker. hot. reg. 

 t. 31. Guimp. abb. holz. t. 87. Xylosteum cordatum, Mcench, 

 meth. p. 502. X. Tataricum, Dum. Cours. Flowers rose- 

 coloured, short, somewhat gibbous at the base. Fruit black, 

 with one of the berries usually abortive. Bracteas 2, linear- 

 setaceous. Peduncles 2-flowered. 



Var. ft, albiflbra (D. C. prod. 4. p. 335.) flowers white. L. 

 Pyrenaica, Willd. baumz. p. 181. 



Var. y, rubiflbra (D. C. 1. c.) flowers red. L. Sibfrica, Hortul. 

 ex Pers. ench. 



Tartarian Honeysuckle. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1752. Sh. 

 4 to 6 feet. 



32 L. CILIA' TA (Muhl. cat. p. 22.) erect; leaves ovate or 

 oblong, cordate, thin, ciliated, villous beneath in the young state 

 peduncles elongated ; bracteas 2, ovate, 3 times shorter than 

 the ovaries, which are distinct ; corolla bluntly spurred at the 

 base : with short, nearly equal lobes ; berries distinct, red 

 divaricate. (7 . H. - Native of North America, on mountains 

 among rocks, in rich soil ; from Canada to Virginia, and through- 

 out Canada to the Saskatchewan, frequent. Xylosteum cilia- 

 turn, Pursh, fl. sept. amer. 1. p. 161. L. Tatarica, Michx. fl 

 amer. 1. p. 166. but not of Lin. L. Canadensis, Rcern. e 

 Schultes 5. p. 260. Flowers white, with a tinge of red or yel 

 low ; tube ventricose above ; limb with short, acute segments 

 Style exserted. The variety fl of Pursh is Vaccmium album. 



Ciliated-leaved Honeysuckle. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1824 

 Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



33 L. PYRENA'ICA (Lin. spec. p. 248.) glabrous, erect ; leave 

 obovate-lanceolate, acute, glaucous beneath ; peduncles 2- 

 flowered, shorter than the leaves ; bracteas oblong-linear, foli 

 aceous ; flowers almost regular ; berries globose, distinct 

 Tj . H. Native of the Pyrenees, on calcareous rocks, in ex 

 posed situations. Duham. arb. 2. t. 110. ed. 2. vol. 1. t. 15 

 Magn. hort. p. 209. with a figure. Caprifolium Pyrenaicum 

 Lam. fl. fr. 3. p. 366. Xylosteum, Tourn. inst. 609. Corolla 

 white, twice the size of those of L. Xylosteum, funnel-shaped 

 limb 5-cleft, flat : with equal, ovate, obtuse segments. 



Pyrenean Honeysuckle. Fl. May. Clt. 1739. Sh. 4 to 5 ft 



34 L. PUNI'CEA (Sims, bot. 

 rnag. t. 2469.) erect ; leaves 

 ovate, subcordale at the base,.of 

 the same colour on both sur- 

 faces : peduncles axillary and 

 almost terminal, 2-flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves ; tube 

 of corolla rather gibbous at the 

 base ; segments of corolla nearly 

 equal, irregularly arranged, 3 

 one way and 2 another ; ber- 

 ries distinct ? Tj . H. Native 

 country unknown. Symphori- 

 carpospuniceus, Sweet. Flowers 

 deep red or crimson. Leaves 

 sometimes 3 in a whorl on the 

 young shoots. 



Crimson-fioviered Honeysuckle. 

 Shrub 2 to 4 feet. 



35 L. XYLOSTF.UM (Lin. spec. 



FIG.80. 



Fl. April, May. Clt. 1821 

 248.) erect, downy ; leaves 



