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Lonicera (British Flora embraces L)

The British Flora embraces L. Caprifolium (Woodbine), L. Periclymenum, and L. Xylosteum. To the species and varieties described on pp. 296-7, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

L. Alberti (Albert Regel's). fl. rose-coloured. l. soft, linear, somewhat resembling those of Rosemary, greyish-green, glaucous beneath. Branches slender. 1887. (R. G. 1065.) SYN. Chamaecerasus Alberti (of gardens). L. alpigena (alpine). fl. greenish-fuscous-red; corolla gibbous at base. April. l. oval-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or pubescent, very shortly petiolate, scarcely toothed. Stem erect. h. 6ft. Central and Southern Europe, 1596. (J. F. A. 274.) L. a. nana (dwarf). This only differs from the type in its dwarfer, more campact habit. SYN. chamaecerasus alpigena nana (of gardens). L. gigantea (gigantic). fl. yellow, tubular, arranged in a large, terminal panicle. l. dark green, amplexicaul; floral ones connate. 1883. A floriferous garden plant.

L. hispida (hispid). fl. greenish-white, pendulous; peduncles shorter than the ovate, ciliated bracts, two-flowered. fr. purple. l. shortly petiolate, ovate-elliptic, 1 1/2in. to 2in. long, rounded or cordate at base, setose-ciliated, glabrous on both surfaces. Stem erect; branches hispid. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Central Asia to Siberia, 1883. (R. G. 1100.) L. Maacki (Maack's). fl. white, numerous, axillary, with a narrow, funnel-shaped tube and a two-lipped limb of five segments, of which four are united and spread in one direction, the fifth lobe taking the opposite one. l. ovate-elliptic, acuminate, rounded at base. h. 10ft. to 15ft. Mandchuria, 1884. A rather pretty, much-branched shrub. (R. G. 1162.)