50 TREES AND SHRUBS. 



the ovaries, glandular-ciliate; ovaries connate for from one half to two thirds of their length, glandular near the apex three- 

 celled; calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate, from 2 to 2.5 millimetres long, sparingly villous and ciliate with interspersed glands /corolla 

 two-lipped, about 1.2 centimetres long, white (according to Wilson), becoming yellowish and tinged reddish at the base, sparingly 

 puberulous outside or nearly glabrous, the tube densely hairy inside, gibbous at the base, about as long or but slightly shorter 

 than the limb; lobes of the upper lip about one third as long as the limb; anterior stamens about as long as the limb, the posterior 

 ones shorter; filaments glabrous except at the very base; anthers linear-oblong, 3 millimetres long; style about as long as the 

 limb, pubescent throughout, but more sparingly toward the apex. Fruits not seen. 



A shrub, sometimes 2 metres high, with brownish gray branches covered with fibrous bark, and villous-puberulous branchlets. 

 Winter-buds ovate to ovate-lanceolate, with about five pairs of acute outer scales, and about four pairs of inner scales, the 

 innermost pair accrescent. 



Western China: Szech'uan, Chanyang, E. H. Wilson (No. 699). 



Lonicera modesta is most closely related to Lonicera kabylica, Rehder. From this species as well as from Lonicera nervosa, 

 Maximowicz, and Lonicera retusa, Franchet, it is easily distinguished by the pale green pubescent under surface of the leaves'; 

 from Lonicera orientalis, Lamarck, and from Lonicera Kachkarovi, Rehder, it differs by the cupular bractlets. 



Lonicera mitis, n. sp. 



Leaves deciduous, oblong to oblong-ovate, obtuse and mucronate, cuneate or sometimes nearly rounded at the base, densely 

 covered on both surfaces with a short velvety pubescence, finely ciliate, from 1 to 2 centimetres long (not yet fully developed) • 

 petioles short, puberulous. Flowers in pairs, nodding, on very short puberulous peduncles; bracts broadly ovate, rounded or 



finely ciliate, green; bractlets wanting; ovaries glabrous, ( 



margin ; corolla white or yellowish, inf undibuliform, glabrous outside, from 15 to 18 millimetres I 



at the base, hairy inside, the lobes upright, broadly ovate, from 6 to 7 millimetres in length, about one third as i long as the 'tube" 



usually tinged purplish near the apex; stamens inserted a little below the limb, not exceeding the corolla, the glabrous filaments 



only slightly longer than the oblong anthers; style as long as the corolla, hairy below the middle. Fruits wanting. 



A shrub, with grayish brown branches covered with bark separating in fibrous threads, and puberulous branchlets. Winter- 

 buds brown, glabrous, from 5 to 8 millimetres long, long-pointed, with one pair of outer scales. 



Western China: Szech'uan "monies alti meridiem versus a Ta-tsien-lu in regione Rhododendrorum," 1893, G. N. Potanin (hi 

 Herb. St. Petersburg); Ta-tsien-lu, 9000 to 13,000 feet, A. E. Pratt (No. 865 in Herb. Kew). 



Lonicera mitis is most closely related to the Siberian Lonicera hispida, Pallas, but differs chiefly from that s 



saccate, and shorter corolla and in the i 



the setose pubescence. Pratt's specimen differs from the < 



collected by Potanin, which I take as the type of the species by its more ventricose almost gibbous tube. A form collected by 

 H. IS. Hobson in Tibet has larger leaves and flowers, and is probably best considered a distinct variety of this snecies 



Lonicera mitis, var. Hobsoni, var. nov. 



Leaves narrow-oblong, narrowed at the ends, mucronate, from 3 to 5 centimetres long; peduncles 1.5 centimetres long- bracts 



T^^t^Z^^QVT^Tr^r^ 08 ? 1 ^^ COr ° Ua 3centimetres 1 ™S> with "early equal base; otherwise like the type. 

 Iibet: Yatung, 1897, E. H. Hobson (m Herb. Kew). 



Lonicera perulata, n. sp. 



Leaves membranaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong, acuminate, the upper cuneate, the lower rounded or even subcordate at the 

 base cihate yellowish green and sparingly short-pilose, especially on the veins above, glandular toward the base, with , 

 scatered reddish glands light green and pilose on the veins beneath, from 6.5 to 8 centimetres long and from 2.5 to 3.8 c 



ith stout branches, and sparingly glandular branchlets, greenish or reddish during their first year, becoming purple 

 m their second season Winter-buds large, with from six to eight pairs of semiorbicular to orbicular-ovate light 

 But outer scales, and paleaceous accrescent upright inner scales. 



3 to 4 centimetres long; bracts subulate, sparingly ciliate, exceeding the 

 as long as the distinct ovaries, glandular-ciliate; corolla two-lipped, about ] 

 metres long, dull dark purple, glabrous, the tube strongly gibbous and distinctly stipitate, densely hirsute inside about < 

 shorter than the limb the upper lip with short broadly ovate lobes; stamens slightly shorter than the limb- anthers 

 oblong, purple, about 4 millimetres in length, filaments somewhat shorter, glabrous except at the base; style shorter 

 stamens, glabrous in its upper third, r — x - 



and lustrous 



brown persistent oulbi- scaies, ana paleaceous accrescent upright inner scale- 



Central China: Western Hupeh, E. H. Wilson (No. 2081) 



Lonicera perulata is closely related to Lonicera Webbiana, Wallich; it differs from that species, however, chiefly in the more 

 XnTn'urnJe t t ' ^ J"" """""* "** "* **"* "*"**> h the C ° lor ° f the bra » clies 1q their "«» d year, 



Lonicera wllL ^ • ^ ™ , "^ ^^ "* " ^ S labrous C ° r ° 1Ia - Fmm ^ 1 refe "*« Wilson's No. 2081 to 

 fypTof a It n cL Th n t T^ ■£*£" " C ° nSpiCU ° U ^ fr ° m that s P ecies that ifc ™J ***** * considered as the 

 type ot a new species. The true Lonicera Webbiana appears to be restricted to the Himalayan Mountains. 



Lonicera prostrata, n. sp. 



Leaves membranaceous, oval, obtuse or aeutUb, broadly cuneate or rounded a. tbe base, from 1 to 2 centimetres long and from 

 1 Trees and Shrubs, i. 137, t. 69 ; Rep. Missouri Bol. Card, xiv. 108. 



