176 rzNTANDRiA monogy#ia. Lonicera. 



the elevated riband nerves, which are pubescent; the upper stir- 

 face polished, the under one glaucous, transversely reticulate. — Petiols 

 scarcely half an inch long, mostly a little villous, surrounding the stem 

 and branches with an elevated margin (as has been well observed by 

 Mr. Edwards in the preceding species.) — Peduncles axillary, opposite, 

 and terminal, short, villous, bearing towards the apex several oppo- 

 site, approximate, very short, two-flowered pedicels. — Flowers yellow, 

 much shorter than those ofjaponica, smooth, with a purplish bloom 

 on the outside, united by two's at the apex of each pedicel and 

 supported by a common involucrum, consisting of six very small 

 ovate, ciliate bractes, the two outermost of which are acute, the 

 intermediate opposite pairs rounded, obtuse, and rather shorter. — 

 Cafi/cine lacinicB subulate, ciliate. — Tube of the corolla about an inch 

 long, widening at the apex into the bilabiate limb, which as well as 

 the filaments and style are somewhat hairy ; upper lip trifid, obtuse, 

 intermediate lobe retuse; the wider one oblong. — Stigma capitate, 

 scabious. — Berries distinct, almost black, three-celled ; cells four- 

 seeded, exactly like those of the foregoing species. 



Obs. This species comes near to japonica, as will be perceived 

 from the description just given of it. It is however easily distin- 

 guished by its smoothness, and the shorter flowers, the tube of 

 which is not filiform as in that, but cylindric, widening at the apex; 

 the bractes differ also in not being linear or subulate. Together 

 with that it is intermediate between Lonicera and Caprifolium. 



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4. L. acuminata, Wall. 



Leaves from ovate to oblong-cordate, finely acuminate, slightly 

 hairy. Fedtmcles axillary, longer than the petiols, villous, two-flow- 

 ered. Corolla not gibbous, infundibuliform. 



Found by my people at Gosain-Than in the Himalaya moun- 

 tains ; in flower in July. 



A very ramous climbing shrub with numerous long slender 

 smooth branches, covered with a fibrous, separating epidermis ; 

 the younger ones as well as the petiols and peduncles densely villous, 

 becoming ferruginous on being dried. — Leaves distiuct, spreading? 



