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2. Leaves half-evergreen: flowers 20mm. long. X A.grandiflora, 

 Leaves deciduous: flowers 15 mm. long. A. chinensis. 



3. Flowers 15 mm. long. A. Engleriana. 

 Flowers 25 mm. long. A. Graebneriana 



LOMCERA. Honeysuckle. 



Deciduous or partly evergreen shrubs or woody twiners 

 with white or yellowish brown wood with small ducts, those oi' 

 the spring sometimes more crowded or somewhat larger, and 

 fine medullary rays; rather slender round or squarish twigs; 

 more or less angled sometimes evanescent pith; somewhat 

 raised opposite crescent-shaped or 3-angled leaf-scars with 3 

 bundle-traces; no stipule-scars; ovoid or conical sessile buds 

 often superposed and the lowermost then largest; simple entire 

 short-stalked or sessile moderate leaves; perfect tubular mod- 

 erate-sized sometimes very fragrant flowers often in axillary 

 pairs; and berry-like fruit. 



1. Low and spreading: pith continuous. 2. 

 Erect and bushy. 3. 



Twining, or trailing on the ground. 9. 



2. Leaves glabrous, narrow as in Lycium. L. spinosa. 

 Leaves woolly beneath, broader. L. thibetica. 



3. Pith continuous, white: flowering before the leaves. 4. 

 Pith excavated. 5. 



4. Twigs retrorsely bristly. L. Standishii. 

 Twigs glabrate. L. fragrantissima. 



5. Buds long and conical: downy. L. Xylosteum. 

 Buds ovoid or round. 6. 



6. Glabrous: flowers pink. (Tartarian h.). L. tatarica. 

 Soft-pubescent: flowers white or yellowing. 7. 



7. Twigs glabrous: leaves downy. L. Ruprechtiana. 

 Twigs and leaves evidently pubescent. 8. 



8. Leaves pubescent on the veins. L. Maackii. 

 Leaves downy on the lower surface. L. Morrowii. 



9. Leaves not united by their bases. 10. 

 Upper leaves connate about the stem. 12. 



10. Glaucous, glabrous. L. Periclymenum. 



Not glaucous, hairy. 11. 



