CAPRIFOLIACEAE. — LONICERA 137 



papyracca, supra obscure viridia pilis setosis adpressis paucis conspersa, 

 subtus glaucescentia et hirsuta, utrinsecus 5-6-costata; petioli sparse 

 setosi, 4 mm. longi. Flores desiderantur. Baccae ovoideae, rubrae, 

 sparse setosae in pcdunculis 5 mm. longis setosis et sparse glandulosis 

 e basi innovationum orientibus; bracteae oblongo-ovatae, acutae, 

 1 cm. longae, setoso-ciliatae, ceterum glabrae; calycis dentes ovati, 

 inaequales, plerumque obtusi, 2-3 mm. longi, setoso-ciliati ; semina 

 late oblonga, 5-6 mm. longa, compressa, flavescentia, testa laevi. 



Western Szech'uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, woods, alt. 2400- 

 2700 m, July 1908 (No. 902). 



Lonicera subdentata seems most nearly related to the preceding species and to 

 L. scabrida Franchet, but both these species have the branchlets furnished with 

 reflexed setose hairs. Lonicera praecox Rehder, which is somewhat similar in fohage 

 and in its glabrous branchlets, is easily distinguished by the winter-buds having 

 several outer roundish scales and by the glabrous ovaries. 



Lonicera hispida Pallas apud Roemer & Schultes, Sijst. V. 258 

 (1819). 



Western Szech'uan: Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien,- alt. 

 2700-3000 m., June 24, 1908 (No. 1855); Ta-p'ao-shan, northeast of 

 Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2700-3000 m., June 8, 1908 (No. 1853); Sung- 

 pan, grass land, alt. 2700-3000 m., August 1910 (No. 4010). 



None of these specimens represent the type of the species; No. 1855 resembles 

 in the shape of the leaves, bracts and corolla L. chaetocarpa, but the leaves are 

 nearly and the ovaries quite glabrous, while No. 1853 consists of two slightly differ- 

 ing specimens resembling in foliage and shape of corolla somewhat L. vaccinioides 

 Rehder, but the leaves, particularly on the upper surface, are sparingly hairy, the 

 corolla is larger and the ovaries densely glandular in one specimen and glandular 

 and setose in the other. 



Lonicera chaetocarpa Rehder, n. sp. 



Lonicera hispida var. chaetocarpa Batalin apud Rehder in Rep. Missouri Bat. 

 Gard. XIV. 94 (1903). 



Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 2400 m., July and 

 October 1908 (No. 942); upland thicket around Tachien-lu, alt. 2400- 

 3400 m., October 1908 (Nos. 1077, 1854); Mupin, upland thickets, 

 alt. 3000 m., October 1908 (No. 1077^), thickets, alt. 2100-2500 m., 

 June and October 1908 (No. 1857); upland thickets, alt. 2700 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4230); Wa-shan, cliffs, alt. 3000 m., July 1903 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3754). 



In habit and in its general appearance this species differs markedly from typical 

 L. hispida Pallas, of which it has been considered a variety. It is easily distinguished 

 by the setose and glandular ovary, the larger and wider corolla prominently saccate 



