Lonictral PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 1 179 



rying iu figure, from ovate to cordate, with a simply acute, or acumi- 

 nate, always cuspidate apex, three inches long, margins rather une- 

 qual; pubescent above, densely villous and soft underneath. — Petiols 

 very short, villous. Peduncles axillary, decurved, scarcely two lines 

 Jong, shorter than the petiols, smooth, two-flovvereci. Bractes cilia- 

 ted with long hairs ; two of them are linear, four ovate. — Flowers 

 axillary, villous on the outside, resembling those of Xylosteum as to 

 size and colour. Calyx cup-shaped, divided into five acute, villous 

 lobes. — Tube of the corolla gibbous at the base. — Ovarium hairy. 



Obs. It is much like Xylosteum but differs both in its greater 

 villosity and the figure of the leaves; its calyx is larger and cup-shap- 

 ed. Loureiro's Lonicera Xylosteum is probably not this species. 

 8. L. ligustrina, Wall. 



Leaves lanceolate, tapering from the rounded base, acute, shining, 

 smooth, ciliate, sub-sessile. Flozvers binate, pubescent, gibbous, on 

 axillary peduncles. Base of the calyx, concave, truncate, loose.— 

 Ovarium and berries covered by a common membrane. 



I have found it in shady forests on several of the mountains of 

 Nipal, blossoming in summer and ripening its fruit during the rains. 

 A branchy, rarnous, slender shrub, with long, cylindric, climbin«- 

 branches, covered with ash-grey, shining, smooth bark; youn* shoots 

 villous, surrounded at the base with some lanceolate, acute, quadri- 

 fariously imbricate bud-scales. — Leaves opposite, sub-bifarious, at 

 least twice as long as their interstices, from lanceolate to ovate lan- 

 ceolate, rounded at the base, from thence tapering into a cuspidu- 

 late point, one or two inches long, smooth, coriaceous, ciliate, dark- 

 green, lucid above, paler and reticulate underneath. Fetiols exceed- 

 ingly short, measuring scarcely a line and a half in length, villous, — 

 Feduncles axillary, opposite, villous, three lines longer than the pe- 

 tiols, a little nodding at the apex, two-flowered. Bractes two, at the 

 apex of the peduncle, supporting the flowers, opposite, spreading, 

 linear, ciliate, smooth. — Calyx smooth, minute, contracted at the 

 middle and having the shape of two cups attached to each other by 

 their bottoms ; the margin of the lower cup truncate and entire, a 

 lutle oblique, adhering obliquely to the vertex of the ovarium ; upper 



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