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P L A T E DLXXXIII.
L O N I C E R A JAPONICA.
Japanese Woodbine.
C L A S S V. O R D E R L
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COKOLIA 1-petala, irregularis. Bacca polyspermaj
bilocularis, infera.
BLOSSOM of one petals irregular. Beriy manyseeded,
2-celled, below.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
LONICERA, folils perennantibus petiolatis villosis
: caule volubili.
Lonicera japónica. Willd. Sp. PL
LONICEEA with ever-green downy leaves upon
footstalkSj and a twining stem.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower spread open.
2, The seed-bud and pointal.
T H I S far-fetched and yet rare species of " the luscious woodbine" is the Kin-gin-qua, or Gold and
Silver Flower, of the Japanese, as we learn from Ksempfer and Thunberg. The same name is also
affixed to a Chinese drawing of the plant, a copy of which we have seen in the collection of A. B.
Lambert, esq. From the same drawing we learn that the flowers come sometimes more in heads, and
much more numerous than in our specimen ; which may probably be accounted for from the plants
being kept here in the green-house. Being an ever-green, like the Minorca and American twining
honey-suckles, the species is the more desirable. It was introduced, we are informed, from China
about the year 1805, and our drawing was taken iaJuly L8O9, in the garden of the Count de Vande&.
at Bayswater.
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