1904 



LONCHITIS 



LONICERA 



long; Ifts. light green and soft, cut nearly or quite to the 

 midrib into oblong-crenate segms. Trop. Afr., Cape, 

 Mauritius and Seychelles. 



LONCHOCARPUS (lance-fruit, from the shape of 

 the pod). Leguminbsse. Trees or climbing shrubs, in 

 many species, in Trop. Amer. and Afr. and Austral., 

 apparently not in the trade and little cult. Lvs. alter- 

 nate, odd-pinnate, the Ifts. opposite and sometimes 

 stipellate: fls. papilionaceous, violet, purple or white, 

 racemose or paniculate; standard very broad or rarely 

 linear-oblong; wings oblique or falcate, lightly adhering 

 to keel above the claw; keel arcuate or nearly straight; 

 stamens 9 and 1: pod oblong or elongated, flat, inde- 

 hiscent, the seeds few or only 1. An indigo is secured 

 from the genus. L. BdrLeri, Benth., is a glabrous climber 

 from Guinea: Ifts. 5-7, oblong, 5-6 in. long: fls. rose- 

 colored, in clusters of 8 or 10. B.M. 6943. Said to be a 

 ood climber for the warmhouse. L. rdseus, DC., from 

 . Amer., has Ifts. 13-15, lanceolate, acuminate: fls. 

 large and showy, rose-colored. L. latifolius, HBK., 

 W. Indies, Cent. Amer. to S. Amer., a shrub or tree, 

 has 2-4 pairs of elliptic or lance-oblong Ifts., and pale 

 purple fls. 



On L. specidsus, Bolus, about 10 years ago Harms 

 founded the genus Bolusanthus (B. specidsus, Harms). 

 It is described by Bolus as a very distinct species with 

 large and handsome bright blue fls. : tree, 15 ft. or more: 

 Ivs. stalked, the Ifts. oblique-lanceolate and very 

 acuminate: fls. 10-30 in terminal recurved or pendulous 

 racemes. Delagoa and Transvaal. Probably not cult. 

 to any extent. L. H. B. 



LONG AN: Euphoria. 



LONICERA (after Adam Lonicer or Lonitzer, a Ger- 

 man physician and naturalist, 1528-1586). Including 

 Caprifdlium, Xylosteum, Nintda and Chamsecerasus. 

 Caprifoliacese. HONEYSUCKLE. Ornamental shrubs 

 grown for their handsome, usually profusely produced, 

 often fragrant flowers and attractive berries. 



Deciduous, rarely half-evergreen or evergreen, 

 upright or climbing: Ivs. opposite, usually short- 

 petioled, entire or very rarely sinuately lobed, in a 

 few species with distinct stipules: fls. in axillary pedun- 

 cled pairs, each pair with 2 bracts and 4 bractlets, the 

 latter often more or less connate into a cupula, some- 

 times wanting, or fls. in sessile whorls at the end of 

 the branches; calyx 5-toothed; corolla with short or 

 slender, often gibbous tube, 2-lipped or almost equally 

 5-lobed; stamens 5; ovary inferior, usually 2-3-, rarely 

 5-celled; the pairs sometimes partly or wholly connate: 

 berry few- to many-seeded. About 175 species 

 throughout the northern hemisphere, in Amer. south 

 to Mex., in Asia south to Java; about 90 species, besides 

 numerous varieties and many hybrids, are in cult. 

 For an account of the genus see Render, Synopsis of the 

 genus Lonicera in Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 

 14:27-232, 20 pi. (1903). 



The honeysuckles belong to our most popular orna- 

 mental shrubs. They are of easy cultivation and propa- 

 gation, most of them are quite hardy and the flowers, 

 though rather small, are profusely produced, mostly of 

 pleasing and delicate colors varying from white or 

 yellow to pink, purple or scarlet, and followed by 

 attractive red, yellow, white, blue or black fruits; the 

 shrubs are never coarse or weedy, do not produce dead 

 wood to any extent, do not need much pruning, and are 

 long-lived. 



The upright or bush honeysuckles are very valuable 

 for shrubberies, and the low procumbent species, like 

 L. spinosa var. Alberti, L. thibetica, L. pileata, and L. 

 trichosantha, are well suited for rockeries. Most of the 

 cultivated species are hardy North, but L. Standishii, 

 L. fragrantissima, L. pileata, L. Ledebourii, L. quin- 

 quelocularis, L. Webbiana, L. rupicola, and other 

 Himalayan species are less hardy and need sheltered 



positions or protection North. Some of the handsomest 

 in bloom are the well-known L. tatarica, L. Korolkovii, L. 

 spinosa var. Alberti, L. Maackii, L. Morrowii, L. Lede- 

 bourii. For their sweet-scented early flowers, L. Stand- 

 ishii and L. fragrantissima are to be recommended. 

 Honeysuckles with very decorative fruits are L. Mor- 

 rowii, L. tatarica, L. gracilipes, L. alpigena, L. trichosan- 

 tha, L. Maackii var. podocarpa, L. chrysantha. Nearly 

 evergreen are L. pileata and L. nitida; half -evergreen, L. 

 fragrantissima and L. Standishii. Loniceras thrive in 

 almost any good garden soil, and prefer mostly sunny 

 positions, but L. canadensis, L. nigra, L. Ledebourii, L. 

 hispida and L. Xylosteum grow as well or better in partly 

 shaded situations. Pruning may be done during win- 

 ter except in the early-flowering species, like L. Stand- 

 ishii, L. fragrantissima, L. graci- 

 lipes and L. hispida. The climb- 

 ing honeysuckles are well ad- 

 apted for covering walls, arbors 

 and other trelliswork; they have 

 mostly handsome and often 

 sweet-scented flowers, in the 

 hardy L. tragophylla as long as 

 3 inches, in the tender L. Hilde- 

 brandiana as long as 7 inches, 

 but are somewhat deficient in 

 foliage, with the exception of L. 

 japonica, and liable to become 

 leafless and unsightly at the base, 

 and therefore may be mixed with 

 other climbers, like ampelopsis, 

 akebia, clematis. They perhaps 

 show their beauty to the best 

 advantage when allowed to 

 ramble over shrubs and small 

 trees. Those of the Caprifolium 

 group are mostly hardy North, 

 with the exception of the species 

 of southern Europe and L. his- 

 pidula, while of the Nintoa group 

 L. japonica and L. Henryi are 

 hardy North, at least in a shel- 

 tered position; these species 

 make also a very handsome 

 ground-cover, and, like L. Peri- 

 clymenum, grow well in shade, 

 but the others prefer sunny posi- 

 tions. Propagation is by seeds 

 sown in fall or stratified and by 

 cuttings of ripened wood; also by 

 greenwood cuttings under glass 

 in summer, but the species of the Periclymenum group 

 grow less readily in this way. Most species hybridize 

 very easily and only seeds collected from isolated plants 

 should be used for propagation. L. spinosa var. Alberti 

 is sometimes grafted high on stems of L. tatarica, thus 

 forming a small weeping tree. 



INDEX. 



2195. Lonicera thibetica. 

 No. 2. 



