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TONICERA japonica. 
Japanese Honeysuckle. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
:Donicera. » Supra fol. 31. 
“% 
: Div. Periclymena, caule volubiji. bows Wee 
ol, japonica, sempervirens, villosa; pedunculis solitariis, bidoris,. axil- 
Jaribus, racemoso-approximatis ; ‘floribus longis, ringentibus : follis 
_, omnibus distinctis, © an 
“Lonicera japonica. Thad. jap.-89.° Syst.-veg. ‘Murr. ed. 14. 216. 
Willd. sp. pl. 46985. ‘Anidrews's teposit. 583. Hort. Kew, éd. 20-1. 
i $78.. lod Sua ae 
Lonicera Periclymenum. Lov. cochi. 150; (nec-aliorim). 
Nin too ; it&m Sin too, vulgs Sui Kadsura; et ex colore, Kin gin qua, 
‘i.e. auri‘argentique flores appellata. | Periclymentim villgaré’; 8. capri- 
*«folium non perfoliatum baccis atropurpureis y. nigris. « Kampf aman. 
785. if 4th wd desi 
Frutex orgyam ultrave ascendens, ramosus, villoso-hirsutus, volubilis. 
Holia perennantia, subcordato-ovata; attenuata, acutiuscula, villosa, reticilato- 
“penosa, sublis cinerascentia, lad 2:uncias cum dimidio longa, 4.ad 14 trans- 
versa; petioli floralium caulem wel ramulum connato-cingentes, semiteretes, 
semunciales magisve. “Ramuli floriferi, oppositi, axillares. Flores in racemos 
JSoliosos laxé decussatos:approximats, termanales: pedunculisbiflori, 2 longiori- 
“bus petiolo sensim brevissimi, in axillis foliorum diminutorum interdum. in 
bracteas descrescentium solitarit: summit duo modo in quadriflorum coadunati. 
Cal. brevis, acute 3-dentatus, arctus,—cinctus bracteis 2 oppositis rotundis 
ciliatis + ipsis alia subulata longiore in sensit contrario directa suffultis. Cor. 
sex argenteo-candicunte, aureo-flavescansy sesquiunoialis, equaliliér dubulata, 
angusta, divaricato-bilabiata labio altero: 3-plo latiore trifido, extis dense 
villosa pilisque capitatis conspersa. Stigma viride, pileato-capitatum. 
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A. native Honeysuckle of China and Japan, where, ac- 
cording to Kempfer, it is known by the name of “ Gold 
and Silver Flowers ;” the corolla changing from a silvery — 
~ white to a golden yellow. Its mode of growth is-similar to 
the common Honeysuckle of our edges; and can be no 
_where seen to such advantage as planted in the border of a 
conservatory, where a proper support to wind its long 
branches upon has been provided. About the middle of 
summer a profusion of bloom appears, of the richest fra- 
grance; the odour not of the kind afforded by the european 
species, but rather approaching that of the Orange-flower, 
the Tuberose, and Cape Jasmine. It is evergreen, and co- 
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