16 Lxxrr. CAPBiPOiiACBiE. (C. B. Clarke.) ILonieera. 



short, corolla glandular-hairy, tube very short. Reich. Ic. Fl. Oerm. t. 1173 j 

 -H". /. ^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soa. ii. 171 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 8 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 256. L. Wehbiana, Wall. Cat. 476 ; DC. I. a. 336. L. oxyphylla, Fdffw. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 60. 



Kashmie to KuMAON, alt. 9-12,000 ft. ; Blinkworth, &o. — Disteib. Eirmpean 

 Alps. 



A large shrub ; branehlets pubescent. Leaves i by 1-2 in., base rounded or 

 cuneate, hairy or glabrate above, with pubescent nerves ; nervation not prominent on 

 either surface ; petiole i in. 'Peduncle stout, flattened, slightly thickened upwards, 

 nearly glabrous. Bracts ^ in., lanceolate or linear ; bracteoles very small. Corolla 

 nearly as in L. orimtalis. Drwpes free in the Indian specimens. — Not a Bhotan 

 plant (as stated by Hook. f. and Thomson). 



DOTJBTFITL SPECIES. 



LoNiCEBA FiNLAYSONiANA, Wall. Cat. 6302, was perhaps collected in Coehin- 

 China : the specimen is poor, and may be L. confnsa, DC. 



L. CHiNENSis, CONFUSA and LONGiFOLiA, mentioned by Soyle {M. 236) as common 

 to the Himalaya, China, and Japan, are probably referable to L. macrantha, DC. 



7. XiEYCESTZSRIA, Wall. 



Under-shruhs, with fistular stems and branches. Leaves opposite, distichous^ 

 caudate-acuminate, memhranoua, glaucous beneath, exstipulate or with very 

 small stipules, entire or toothed. Flo^veis whorled, in terminal or axillary erect 

 or drooping spiies subtended by small or large foliaceous bracts, 2-bracteolate. 

 Calyx-tuhe ovoid, limb unequally 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 gibbously swollen at the base and limb subequally 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the throat of the corolla. Ovary 5-8-celled ; style slender, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules many, 2-s6riate in each cell. Ben-y oblong or subglobose, 5-8-celled,. 

 many-seeded. Seeds minute, testa crustaceous sbining. 



1. Xi. fonnosa, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 8f Carey, ii. 181 ; PI.. 

 As. Rar. ii. 20, t. 120 ; Cat. 470 ; branchy stout, leaves ovate toothed, bracts 

 large leafy, ovarv 5-celled. Bat. May. t. 30(99 ; Wight III. ii. t. 121 D. Brandis 

 Far. Fl. 256. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 5-10,000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan. Khasia Mts 

 alt. 5-60no ft., B. f-^T. 



Branching from the base, branches 6 ft. Leaves 2-5 by 1-3 in., broadly ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate long acuminate, entire or irregularly toothed, white and more or less 

 pnberulous beneath, base rounded subacute or cordate ; petiole J-1 in. Spikes 2 in., 

 pubescent ; bracts cordate laxly leafy, often purplish ; bracteoles variable. Flowers 

 glandular, puberulous. Corolla J-1 in., purplish-pink. Style glabrous. Berry 

 subglobose, red. — Flowers rarely 3-4-mprous. 



2. Zi. g'laucophylla, Hooh. f. ; branches slender, leaves lanceolate 

 sinuate-toothed, bracts much shorter than the flowers, berry 7-8-celled. Loni- 

 cera glaucophylla, H. J. Sr T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 165 ; Gard. Chron. 1858, 

 700, with Jig. L. gracilis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1870, pt. ii. 77. Pentapyxis 

 sp., Sook.f. in Oen. PI. ii. 6. 



SncKiM Himalaya, alt. 5-6000 ft. ; Yoksun, J. D. H. ; Simonbong, Kurz. 

 A much more slender plant than L. formosa, with narrower shorter-petioled 

 leaves, and small axillary few-flowered spikes of puberulous flowers, the bracts of which. 



