TREES AND SHRUBS. 



LONICERA MUCEOKATA, Eehd. 



Lonicera mucronata, Rehder, Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. xiv. 83, t. 2, figs. 8 to 9 (1903). — 



Grabner, Engler Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. Beibl. lxxxii. 100. 



Leaves coriaceous, persistent, broadly obovate to broadly oval, obtuse and mucronate, rounded or 

 narrowed at the base, entire, ciliate and slightly revolute at the margin, from 1.5 to 2 centimetres 

 long, bright green and glabrous or with a few scattered setose hairs on the upper surface, 

 glaucescent and reticulate on the lower surface and sparingly appressed-pilose on the veins 

 and veinlets, with from three to five pairs of veins ; petioles appressed-pilose, about 2 millimetres 

 in length. Flowers in pairs, on short recurved reflexed-setose peduncles from 2 to 5 millimetres 

 long, in the axils of bud-scales at the base of the branchlets ; bracts lanceolate, ciliate, about 



5 millimetres in length, slightly exceeding the calyx, usually furnished at the base on the anterior 

 side with a short lobe ; bractlets none ; ovaries connate, or connate for only two thirds of their 

 length, two to three-celled, glabrous or sparingly appressed-setose ; calyx-lobes minute, semi- 

 orbicular, ciliate; corolla two-lipped, about 1 centimetre long, white, fragrant, glabrous outside, 

 densely hirsute on the inner surface of the tube, with upright hairs, the limb slightly longer than 

 the strongly gibbous tube ; outer lobes of the posterior lip scarcely half as long as the limb, the 

 inner ones shorter, ovate, ciliate, with a few setose hairs; anterior stamens as long as the corolla, 

 the posterior ones shorter ; filaments glabrous ; anthers narrow-oblong, 2.5 millimetres in length ; 

 style as long as the corolla, glabrous. Fruit short-ped uncled, subglobose, about 8 millimetres in 

 diameter, red ; seeds from three to ten in a fruit, oval, light yellowish brown, finely punctulate, 

 4 millimetres long. 



An upright much-branched shrub, about 1 metre high, with finely pubescent branchlets 

 furnished with reflexed setose hairs, later becoming grayish brown or light brown, the bark 

 peeling off in fibrous threads. Winter-buds small, ovate, with two outer scales and two pairs of 

 inner scales. Terminal buds wanting, replaced by two axillary ones. The fragrant flowers appear 

 early in spring with the young leaves. The fruits are edible, according to Dr. Henry. 



Western China: Szech'uan, S. Wushan, A. Henri/ (No. 5519), E. H. Wilson (No. 176), 

 Wushan gorge, E. H. Wilson (No. 3738). 



Lonicera mucronata is most closely related to Lonicera Standishii, Carriere, and Lonicera fragrantissima, Lindley 



6 Paxton, but is easily distinguished from these species by the much smaller and generally obovate leaves. Wilson's 

 No. 3738, from which the description of the hitherto unknown flowers is drawn, differs slightly from Henry's fruiting 

 specimen in the glabrous ovary and the more cuneate leaves. 



Alfred Rehder. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



