TREES AND SHRUBS. 



LOOTCEEA BETUSA, Fea^ch. 



Lonicera retusa, Franchet, Jour, de Bot, x. 313 (1896). - Bois, Jour. Soc. Hort. France, iv 

 210. — Rehder, Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. xiv. 120. 



Leaves deciduous, chartaceous, obovate or broadly ovate, obtuse, truncate or emarginate at 

 the apex, rarely acutish, cuneate at the base, entire, sparingly gland ular-ciliate near the base, 

 glabrous and dark green above, with light-colored veins, glaucous and minutely hairy beneath, 

 elevated-reticulate on both surfaces, deciduous, from 1 to 2.5 centimetres long and from 7 to 20 

 millimetres wide; petioles slender, purplish, glabrous, or with a few scattered glands, from 2 to 3 

 millimetres m length. Flowers in pairs, on short peduncles from 3 to 8 millimetres long, in the 

 axils of the uppermost leaves of the young branchlets; bracts subulate, about half as long as the 

 ovary, ciliolate ; bractlets connate into a cupula about one third as high as the ovaries, glandular- 

 ciliate; ovaries wholly connate or sometimes distinct at the apex, glabrous, two-celled ; calyx-teeth 

 linear-lanceolate, ciliolate, from 1.5 to 2 millimetres in length ; corolla two-lipped, from 1 to 1.2 

 centimetres long, white, becoming yellowish, reddish at the base, glabrous outside, hirsute inside 

 the tube, limb almost twice as long as the tube, the lobes of the posterior limb short, about one 

 fourth as long as the limb, broadly ovate; stamens slightly exceeding the corolla; filaments 

 glabrous except at the base; anthers narrow-oblong, 3 millimetres long; style slightly shorter 

 than the stamens, glabrous or pubescent. Fruit shining black, subglobose, from 6 to 8 milli- 

 metres in diameter; seeds oval, light brown, finely reticulate, 3.5 millimetres long. 



An upright much-branched shrub, about 2 metres high, with slender grayish branches and 

 glabrous or very sparingly glandular branchlets, purple like the petioles and peduncles. Winter- 

 buds ovate-oblong, acute, light brown covered by about six pairs of outer acute scales, nearly 3 

 millimetres long. Flowers appear in June after the leaves. 



Western China: Szech'uan, Chen-keou-tin, R. P. Far yes (in Herb. Paris), ravines 3000 metres 

 altitude, E. H. Wilson (No. 3746), Ta-tsien-lu, 1897, R. P. Mussot (No. 171 in Herb. Drake 

 del Castillo). 



Lmicera retusa, Franchet, is most closely related to Lonicera nervosa, Maximowicz, and to Lonicera kabylka, 

 Kender. The former is, however, easily distinguished from it by its higher lobed cupula, the larger acute leaves light 

 green beneath, and the latter by its ovate or oval usually acute leaves only glaucescent beneath, and by the outer lobes 

 of the upper Up being about half as long as the limb. Wilson's specimens (No. 3746) differ slightly from the type by 

 the generally somewhat larger and sometimes acutish leaves, by the shorter peduncles, and by the pubescent style. 

 Another allied species from China is described below, together with some other new Asiatic species of this genus.* 

 Lonicera retusa is now in cultivation at the Veitchian nurseries at Combe Wood, and is a graceful shrub whose chief 

 ornamental qualities lie in the contrast between the dark green upper surface of the leaves with the bluish white under 

 surface, and in the shining black berries. The flowers, which are borne at the end of the branchlets, are also attractive. 



Alfred Rehder. 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



1 New Asiatic Honeysuckles. 



Lonicera modesta, n. sp. 



Leaves membranaceous, rhombic-oval to oval or oblong, obtuse and usually mucronulate, broadly cuneate at the base, entire, 

 minutely ciliate, dull green above and glabrous except the pubescent midrib, lighter green and reticulate and covered' with a 

 short villous pubescence chiefly on the veins and veinlets below, from 2.5 to 4 centimetres long and from 1.2 to 3.5 centimetres 

 wide, with from six to eight pairs of veins; petioles villous, about 2 millimetres long. Flowers in pairs, on short peduncles in the 

 axils of the upper leaves; peduncles about as long as the petioles, puberulous; bracts subulate, from 2 to 3 millimetres in length, 

 ciliate, slightly exceeding the ovary but shorter than the calyx-lobes; bractlets connate into a cupula about one third as high as 



