1052 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



the roots spread carefully out in every direction, the shoots will cover 

 several square yards of wall the first summer, and flower abundantly. 



a. Hardy Species of Lonicera. belonging to the Division Nintoda of the Section 

 Xylosteum, not yet introduced. 



L. cochinchinensis Don's Mill., iii. p. 447. ; L. Xylosteum Lour. ; is a twining 

 shrub, with a much-branched stem, and ovate leaves, a native of Cochin- 

 China, among bushes and hedges. 



L. Tclfdirii Hook et Arn., Don's MilL,\\\. p. 447.; L. Periclymenum Lour.; 

 is a native of China, closely allied, on the one hand, to L. confusum Dec., 

 from which it differs in the leaves being smooth above, and in the shorter 

 peduncles; and, on the other, to L. Lechenaultw Wall., which, however, is 

 said to have ovate-subcordate ciliated leaves, and villous branches. 



L. Lechenaultii Wall., Don's Mill., iii. p. 447., has twining stems, axillary 

 flowers, and is found on the Neellgherry Mountains. 



L.glabrdta Wall., Don's Mill., iii. p. 447.; L. nigra Thunb.; is a native of 

 Nepal, with twining branches and ovate leaves, glaucous beneath. 



L. acumindta Wall., Don's Mill., iii. p. 447., is a native of the Himalayas, 

 with twining stems, and flowers like those of L. Xylosteum. 



L. diversifolia Wall., Don's Mill., iii. p. 448., is a native of the East Indies, 

 on Mount Gurval, with twining branches, and flowers resembling those of L. 

 Xylosteum, both in size and colour. The leaves are ovate and cuspidate, and 

 about 3 in. long, pubescent above, and villous beneath. 



L. \igustrina Wall., Don's Mill., iii. p. 448. ; Xylosteum /igustrinum D. 

 Don. ; X. Nauoca Hamilt. ; is a native of Nepal, on the mountains and in the 

 woods, with the branches slender, twining, and covered with ash grey, shining, 

 smooth bark, and leaves like those of the privet. 



L. lanceoldta Wall., Don's Mill., iii. p. 448., is an erect, bushy shrub, with 

 berries about the size and colour of black currants ; a native of Nepal, at Go- 

 sainthan. 



L. canescens Schousb., Don's Mill., iii. p. 448. ; L. biflora Desf. ; is a native 

 of hedges about Mogador, on Mount Trara in Mauritania, and of Sicily, 

 near Palermo, with twining branches, which, with the leaves, are canescent 

 from down. The flowers are in peduncles, which are longer than the petioles, 

 and the corolla is velvety on the outside. 



L. bractedta Royle Illust., p. 237., has the leaves ovate-lanceolate, the pe- 

 duncles axillary and 2-flowered, with broad foliaceous bracteas, which, before 

 the expansion of the flowers, half conceal the flower buds. Mr. Royle re- 

 marks that this is a singular species, so closely allied to Leycesteriitf, that it 

 might almost be referred to that genus. 



The names of several other species of Lonicera are given in Royle's Illus- 

 trations, as found in the Himalayas ; but none of them, except those already 

 mentioned, are described in published works, or introduced into British 

 gardens. 



B. Berries distinct, or usually connate together at the Base, and diverging at 

 the Tip. Corolla hardly gibbous at the Base, or equal. Chamcecerasi Dec. 



Derivation. The name signifies a kind of false cherry: the fruit of some of the species resemble 

 cherries. (Dec. Prod., iv. p. 335.) 



st 16. L. TATA'RICA Lin. The Tartarian Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1. p. 247. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 335. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 448. 

 Synonymes. Xyltisteum cordktum Mccnch Mcth., p. 502. ; X. tataricum Dum. Cours, 

 Engraving. Pall. FL Ross., t. 36.; Jacq. Icon. Rar., t. 3?. ; Hot. Reg., t. 31. ; Guimp. Abb. Holz., 

 t. 87. ; and our figs. 811, 812. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Quite glabrous, erect. Leaves cordate-ovate, hardly acute. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves. Berries distinct when young, and 

 nearly globose, but at length connate at the base. 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. 



