Lonicera hypoleuca Decne.

Found in drier regions from 2000 to 3000 m.

An erect shrub up to 1.5 m high, young branches pilose and glandular-hairy. Leaves 1-2 x 0.6-1 cm, suborbicular-ovate or broadly elliptical obtuse, densely pubescent and glandular on both sides, pale-grey beneath; petiole 1-3 mm long. Flowers in pain, on short axillary peduncles on the terminal portion of young branches. Bracts connate at the base, lanceolate, longer than the calyx lobes, pilose. Bracteoles connate, cup-shaped, as long as calyx tube, enclosing the twin ovaries, glandular-pubescent Calyx tube glandular-pubescent, limb toothed, deltoid, pubescent. Corolla 10-15 nun long, bilabiate, tube equalling the lobes, slightly gibbous at base, glandular-pubescent, orange-yellow. Berries more or less connate at the base, enclosed by the cup-like bracteoles.

Distribution: Baluchistan, Himalaya from Swat eastward to Nepal.

Fl. Per.: June-October.