PLATE DLXXXIII. 



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ERA 



AP 



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C A 



Japanese Woodbine. 



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CLASS V. ORDER I. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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Chives. One Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 





Corolla 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca polysper- 

 my bilocularis, infera. 



Blossom of one petals irregular. Berry many- 

 seeded, 2- celled, below. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Lonicera foliis perennantibus petiolatis villo- 



sis : caule volubili. 

 ionicera japonica. JFilld, Sp, PL 



Lonicera with ever-green downy leaves upott 

 footstalks* and a twining stem, 





REFERENCE TO* THE PLATE 



1. A flower spread open. 



2. The seed-bud and oointaL 



This far-fetched and yet rare species of « the luscious woodbine" is the Kin-gin-qua, or Gold and 

 Silver Flower, of the Japanese, as we learn from Kaempfer and Thunberg. The same name is also 

 affixed to a Chinese drawing of the plant, a copy of which we have seen in the collection of A. B . 

 Lamberts tsa.m From the 



same 



being kept here in the gn 

 honey-suckles, the species 



specimen 



Minorca 



It was introduced, we are informed, from China 



about the year 1805, and our drawing was taken in July I8O9, in the garden of the 

 at Bayswater. 



