TREES AND SHRUBS DECIDUOUS 



species. It has been collected by several travellers, including Maries, 

 Dr. A. Henry, and Wilson, and through the last named was introduced to 

 cultivation. 



The flowers green, are smaller than those of L. tulipifera and more 

 spreading ; when fully open they do not present the tulip-like appearance, 

 there is a difference in the construction of the pistil, and the leaves 

 are more glaucous. 



In the native habitat it forms a tree 15 to 20 ft. high, though occasionally 

 isolated examples are met which greatly exceed this height. 



LONICEBA GYNOCHLAMYD^3A, Hemsl. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 362. 



A dwarf-growing shrub first from the Patung district, Central China, 

 and subsequently introduced to cultivation from the Province of Hupeh. 



The flowers, remarkable for the cap-like production of the calyx over 

 the connate bracteoles, are rose-coloured, produced on two-flowered 

 peduncles in the axils of the leaves. 



LONICERA KCEHNEANA, Behd. 



Rehder in Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, 1902, pfc. i. pi. xxi. 



A Chinese species first sent as dried specimens from Central China by 

 Dr. A. Henry, and " dedicated to Professor E. Kcehne, the distinguished 

 German botanist, whose arrangement of the cultivated species of Lonicera 

 in his Deutsche Dendrologie is the best and most natural hitherto 

 published." 



A strong-growing shrub with ovate acuminate leaves, in the axils of 

 which the two-flowered peduncles are produced, flowered at Coombe 

 during the summer of 1905 from seed collected in Central China by 

 Wilson. 



LONICEEA TBAGOPHYLLA, Hemsl. 



Bot. Mag. t. 8064; Hemsley in Jour. Linn Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 367; Jour. R.H.S. 1903, 

 vol. xxviii. p. 63, fig. 24 ; Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxvi. p. 151, suppl. illtis. ; 

 Veitchs' List of Novelties, 1905, p. 3, figs. ; Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, pi. xlvi. 



A Chinese Honeysuckle flowered in June 1904 at Coombe, figured in 

 the Botanical Magazine (I.e. supra) in March 1906, the month of the 

 publication of Hortus Veitchii. 



The flowers in dense heads, each composed of from twelve to fifteen 

 yellow trumpet-shaped blooms, have exserted stamens. The blooms are 

 the largest produced by any species of the sub-genus (Periclymenum), and 

 the species is the only representative in Central and Eastern Asia of the 

 almost exclusively Mediterranean sub-section Eucaprifolium, Spach. 



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