Tas. 7394. 
LONICERA ALBERTI. 
Native of Hastern Turkestan. 
‘Nat. Ord. CarrriroLtiace&.—Tribe Lonicer2&. 
Genus Lonicera, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) 
Lonicrra (Xylosteum) Alberti; fruticulus humilis, rigidus, ramosissimus, 
glaberrimus, foliis sessilibus linearibus obtusis subtus albicantibus, basi 
seepissime dentibus acutis 1 v. 2 utrinque auctis, floribus ramulis laterali- 
bus 2-nis, bracteolis in involucrum brevem stipitatum 4-lobum connatis, 
lobis rotundatis, ovariis liberis ovoideis, calycis dentibus 5 inzqualibus 
obtusis, corollz roses tubo cylindracen, lobis tubo intus piloso brevioribus 
subzequalibus ovatis obtusis patentibus, staminibus breviter exsertis, 
stigmate spathulato recurvo baccis liberis. 
L. Alberti,’Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop, vol. vii. (1880), p.550, and in Gartenflor. 
* (1881), p. 370 and 387, t. 1065. 
Lonicera Alberti is typical of a considerable number of 
the Xylosteum section of Honeysuckles that inhabit the 
dry mountains of Central Asia from the Altai to the 
Himalaya, where they form stunted, intricately branched 
shrubs. Inthe Himalaya there are no fewer than eighteen 
such species, of which hardly anyoccur below 6000 ft., many 
are confined to elevations between 10,000 and 12,000 ft., 
and one ascends to above 16,000 ft. in Tibet, north of 
Sikkim. J. tomentella, figured at t. 6486, is an example of 
one of the larger of the group. For the most part they 
have nothing to recommend them horticulturally, and 
their habit and habitat are all they have to interest a 
botanist. L. Alberti is the most attractive of those known 
to me, from its abundance of bright, rose-colrd. flowers, 
and sweet, though faint odour. It is one of the many 
discoveries of Dr. Albert Regel, a distinguished explorer 
of Western Turkestan, who, during arduous and often 
perilous services in Central Asia, made large collections 
of living and dried plants for his father, Dr. de Regel, the 
late eminent Director of the Imperial Gardens of St. 
Petersburgh. A plant of it was sent to Kew by Dr. Regel 
January Ist, 1895. 
