Tas. 7774, 
LONICERA PYRENAICA, 
Nutive of the Pyrenees. 
Nat. Ord. Caprironiaceaz.—Tribe LonicEREs. 
Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) 
Lonicera (Xylosteum) pyrenaica; frutex dumosus, erectus, glaberrimus, 
ramulis patentibus, foliis apices versus ramulorum fasciculatis sessilibus 
obovato-cuneatis oblanceolatisve acutis giaucis caducis, pedunculis foliis 
dimidio brevivribus, bracteis 2 foliaceis, bracteolis 4 minutis ovatis, 
ovariis subglobosis basi tantum connatis, calycis dentibus minutis, 
corullz pallide rosez tubo $ poll. longo basi gibboso lobis ovato-rotundatis, 
genitalibus breviter exsertis, stylo villoso, baccis pisiformibus fere liberis 
rubris, 
L. pyrenaica, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 174. Duham. Arb. vol. ii. t. 110; Ed. 
II. vol. i. t. 15. DC. Fl. Fr. vol. iv. p. 272; Prodr. vol. iv. p. 335. 
Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. II. vol. i. p. 379. Benth. Cat. Pl. Pyren. p. 97. 
Allioni, Fl. Pedem. vol. i. p. 128. Poll, Fl. Veron. vol. i. p. 285. Reichb, 
Ic. Fl. Germ, vol. xvii. t. 1175, fig. 2. Parlat, Fl. Ital. vol. al 127. 
Willk. & Lange, Prodr, Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 353. Gren. § Godr. Fl. 
de France, vol. ii. p. 11. 
Caprifolium pyrenaicum, Lam. Fl. Fr. vol. iii. p. 366. 
Lonicera pedunculis bifloris, &c., Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. p. 238. 
Xylosteon pyrenaicum, Tournef. Instit. p. 609. Magnol. Hort. Reg. Monsp, 
p- 209, cewm Ic. Rand, Hort. Med. ls. ed. 1739, p. 211. 
a vel Xylostaeum Pyrenaicum, Ray, Hist, Pl. vol. iii.; Dendrol. 
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Lonicera pyrenaica is a very old garden plant, having, 
according to Philip Miller, been in cultivation in England 
since 1793. It is a native of the Eastern Pyrenees, 
and of the larger Balearic Islands, at elevations in the 
latter of twelve hundred feet to fourteen hundred feet. 
In the Royal Gardens, Kew, it forms a small shrub in 
the Rock garden, flowering profusely in May and June. 
Descr.—A small, much-branched, glabrous shrub, with 
close-set, short branchlets. Leaves crowded towards the 
ends of the branchlets, sessile, spreading, about an inch 
long, oblanceolate or cuneiformly obovate, acute, glaucous, 
deciduous. Peduncles about half as long as the leaves, 
each bearing two bracteate sessile flowers, shortly united 
by the bases of their ovaries. Bracts leaf-like, spreading ; 
bracteoles two to each flower, minute. Ovary sub-globose. 
Calyz-teeth minute, triangular. Corolla pale rose-coloured 
May Ist, 1901. 
