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43. CAPRIFOLIACEiE. 
L. and DC. flourishes in gardens even down in Funchal, that 
Madeira possesses no indigenous Viburnum. 
t Tribe II. Lonicerea. 
The Honeysuckle Tribe. 
f2. Lonicera L. 
Honeysuckle. 
tl. L. etrusca Santi. Madresilva. 
Branches sarmentose flaunting and somewhat twining or 
twisting; 1. deciduous subcoriaceous obovate obtuse abruptly 
mucronulate shining above, glaucous beneath, the lower shortly 
stalked, the upper sessile broadly connate or perfoliate ; heads 
of fl. terminal distinctly stalked mostly ternate. — Santi Viagg. 
i. 113. t. 1; Spr. i. 757 ; DC. iv. 331 ; Koch 357; Gren. et Godr. 
ii. 10. 
/3. glabra ; wholly smooth. L. caprifolium Buch 195. no. 286 
(not Linn.). — Shr. Mad. reg. 2, cc. Chestnut woods on trees 
banks and hedges in all parts of the island e. g. the Mount, Ca- 
macha, up the Machico valley, Jardim, Canhas,Fajaa d’Ovelha, 
P ,a do Fargo, Prazeres, S. Vicente, Arco de S. Jorge, S ta Anna, 
l )co da Cruz, &c., but nowhere apart from cultivation. Apr., May. 
— An extensively spreading shr. smooth in every part, with 
long weak climbing smooth pale ash-grey shoots or branches ; 
L. stiff* flat not undulate 1-2 in. long f-l| in. broad, the lower 
obovate or broadly and shortly spathulate, distinctly but shortly 
stalked ; upper sessile very obtuse broadly connate ; all quite 
smooth on both sides and with a minute abrupt mucro. Fl. in 
large subtemate rather long-stalked heads at the ends of the 
branches, altogether finer or more slender than in L. capri- 
folium L., yellowish and more or less reddish, deliciously fra- 
grant. Fed. of heads slender but stiff and erect 4-1 f in. long, 
mostly ternate sometimes brachiately quinate rarely single from 
the uppermost connate pair of 1. Cal.-teeth short half-ovate 
subacute. Style smooth. Cor. altogether smooth, tube about 
}th longer than the limb ; upper lip obtusely 4-lobed, lower 
narrow entire. Berries agglomerate connate at the base crowned 
with the persistent cal., dark yet bright yellowish -red. 
The 1. art;, strictly speaking, in Mad. only lialf-deciduous, the 
old 1. usually remaining on the pi. during its period of rest 
throughout the winter till Feb. or March and falling only when 
the new buds begin to shoot. This is equally the case however 
in Madeira with the Oak, Plane, &c. 
