Lonicera. •pentandhia MONOGYNtA. 175 



garden, where it thrives luxuriantly, is easily propagated by layers 

 aud blossoms freely in the hot season. 



JSipal, Sochfl. 



Beng. Te'd-parooa. 



1 have very little to add to the excellent description and figure 

 in the botanical register quoted above, which agrees perfectly with 

 my plant. The figure in Andrews's work wants its copious long hairs. 



Jn Nipal this most charming shrub grows to a luxuriant height, 

 climbing and rambling to a very considerable extent. Stem and 

 branches cyliudric. Leaves rather remote, oblong or ovate, acu- 

 minate, from three to five inches long, shining above, and villous 

 along the nerves, margins hairy; under surface beautifully reticu- 

 late, glaucous, villous and hairy. The flowers deserve well the 

 appellation which the accurate Kaempfer say 3. they bear in Japan, 

 "Gold and Silver flowers," being at first snow-white, and gradually 

 changing into a beautiful yellow, as do several of the species of 

 Gardenia ; acquiring thereby a peculiarly elegant, varied appearance. 

 -—Berries nearly globular, smooth, deep-purple, covered slightly 

 with a pale bloom, crowned with the persistent, villous calyx, about 

 •the size of a black currant, three-celled j cells four-seeded. 



S. L. glabrata, Wall. 



Smooth. Leaves ovate, acuminate, glaucous underneath. Flowers 

 smooth, geminate, in axillary and terminal fascicles. Bractes ovate. 

 Tube of the corolla rather short, cylindric, widening at its apex. 



L. nigra, Thunb.jap. 89; Id. in Act. Soc. Linn. 11. 330? 



I have only found this at the top of Sheopore ; it has been brought 

 to me from Kabelas in the valley to the N". of that mountain, blossom- 

 ing and fruiting rather earlier than the preceding species. 



A climbing, large, branchy shrub, with smooth, shining, brownish 

 stern and branches ; the upper end of the latter, and the young shoots 

 slightly villous. — Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, from three to five 

 inches long, petioled. and perfectly distinct, rounded, seldom obtuse 

 at the base, perfectly smooth on both aides, except underneath along 



