82 JOURNAL OF THE^ ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
Lonicera syringantha (F 189) abounds in the hedgerows and copsy 
valley-bottoms in the Tibetan Alps opposite J6-ni between 8,000 
and 10,000 feet — a large, light-foliaged bush, with clustered 
lovely stars of waxy and intensely fragrant pink-lilac blossom 
in early summer, succeeded by dazzling scarlet berries in 
October. 
Lonicera sp. (F 249). — A stiff and rather graceless bush of 4-5 feet 
from the Tibetan coppices, with black fruits like boot-buttons 
in pairs or fours along the axils of the sprays. 
Lonicera sp. (F 250). — A bush of 5 feet, growing with the last but 
much more graceful, with pendent pinkish trumpets, and then 
richly glowing ruby berries hovering from invisibly fine pedicels. 
Lonicera sp. (F 252) attains 6-8 feet. It has smallish flowers in 
compound sprays along the axils, and twin red berries. 
Lonicera sp. (F 269) is a tall, graceful bush, with orange berries in 
fours along the axils of the flattened bending sprays. 
Lonicera sp. (F 270 or F 224) is only an occasional occurrence in 
the coppiced valley -bottoms opposite J6-ni. It is a bush of 
8-10 feet, not particularly attractive in flower, but remarkable 
for the delicious quality of the black oval-pointed berries that it 
bears along the axils of the flattened sprays. It should not be 
eaten raw fbut in stews, jams, and jellies proves one of the most 
delightful of fruits. The discovery was made (for the Tibetans 
ignore it) by the American missionaries, who call it Blueberry, after 
the Whortleberry that it rather resembles in berry. A most 
important future may be prophesied for this new fruit, which 
can hardly fail to be a treasure for temperate climates. Already 
introduced by Purdom into America, it has not been heard of in 
England yet. 
Lonicera sp. (F 277) belongs to the group of L. syringantha, and is 
a most delightful, almost prostrate bushlet, running freely about 
in the higher alpine turf of Thundercrown and the Min S'an at 
some 12,000 feet, its grey-leaved flattened sprays bedecked with 
clusters of large, sweet stars of crystalline lilac-pink flowers, to 
be followed in August-November by bunches of oval fruit, 
dazzling scarlet, bigger and less round than in F 189. 
Lonicera sp. (F 278) is perfectly prostrate, creeping far and wide in 
mounded flat masses over the highest beck shingles of the Min 
S'an and Thundercrown, with long sprays of greyish foliage, 
and orange berries huddled along them in twins or fours. Flower 
so far unknown. 
Lonicera sp. (F 313) has not yet been distributed. It is the larger, 
much dimmer-flowered and commoner bush already talked of as 
the big original or cousin of F 46. The pretty ruby fruits hang 
on very fine pedicels, but I am not yet sure enough of the plant's 
distinctness to send it out. 
Lonicera sp. (F 371). — Collected near Gahoba, and quite obscure — 
perhaps with affinities to F 313. 
