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CAPRIFOLIUM PUBESCENS. 
Downy American Woodbine. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA ^Nat. Ord. CAPRIFOLIACEM. 
Gen. Char. — Cal. superus, 5-4 dentatus, et subinteger. Cor. tubus elon- 
gatus, limbo quinquefido, subregulari vel bilabiate. Stamina longitu- 
dine corollae. Stigma globosum. Bacca distincta, trilocularis, poly- 
sperma. — Itoem. et Schultz. 
Caprifolium pubescens; verticillis terminalibus subcapitatis gland uloso- 
pubescentibus, foliis late ovato-ellipticis breviter petiolatis pubescen- 
tibus ciliatisque subtus glaucis, summis connato-perfoliatis. 
C. pubescens, Goldie, in Edin. Phil Jmrn. Apr. 1822, v. vi. p. 323. 
Stem climbing, from 6 to 8 feet high, hairy below, nearly glabrous above. 
Leaves large, 4 inches or more in length, in opposite distant pairs, broad- 
ly ovato-elliptical, entire at the margin, distinctly nerved, with the nerves 
prominent beneath, bright green, and slightly pubescent above, the mar- 
gins finely ciliated, beneath glaucous, and very pubescent. The lower 
leaves are situated upon short footstalks, the upper ones sessile or perfo- 
liate ; the uppermost, or the pair immediately beneath the flowers, are 
connato-perfoliate, quite glabrous above, and nearly so beneath. 
Peduncles generally in threes, terminal, with heads or whorls of beautiful 
deep yellow, almost orange coloured ^wer*, which are rather crowded. 
Gennens sessile, crowded, spherical, crowned with 5 small calycine teeth, coat- 
ed with a yellow glandular pubescence, and having at their base a small 
ovate bractea. Corolla full an inch in length. Tube long, slender, gib- 
bous on one side near the base, and, like the germen, strikingly glandu- 
loso-pubescent. Limb two-lipped, lower lip deflexed, linear oblong, en- 
tire ; upper one broad, reflexed, with 4 obtuse lobes at the extremity. 
Stamens 5 : Filaments much exserted beyond the tube, slender, hairy on 
one side : Anthers oblong, yellow. Sti/le almost equal in length with the 
stamens. Stigma globose. 
I had carefully examined original dried specimens of this 
plant with Mr Goldie, previously to its publication in the 
description which that zealous and meritorious naturalist has 
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