92 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
It seems doubtful whether the fruit is really blue as it 
looks in the dried specimen, since in other species of this 
group I have observed sometimes a change of color from 
scarlet to bluish after drying. 
50. L. Semenovir, Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. 5: 608 
(1878); 6:303 (1880).— Wolf, Isv. St. Peterb. 
Lesn. Inst. 3:12. pl. 2. f. 3-6. pl. 13. f. 3 (1898). 
L. glauca, Hooker f. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. Soc. 22166 (1858), 
not Hill, in herb. Kew!.—Clarke in Hooker, FI. Brit. Ind. $311 
(1882). — Buser in Boissier, Fl. Or. Suppl. 278 (1888.) 
L. hispida alpina, Regel, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 40':3 (1867). 
Caprifolium Semenovii, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1 3274 (1891). 
Caprifolium Thomsonii, Kuntze, 1. c. 
Turkestan (Fedtschenko! Regel, Krassnow). Tibet 
(Thomson, Schlagintweit). Afghanistan (Aitchison). 
Himalayas: from Kashmir to Kumaon (Strachey & Win- 
terbottom, Conway, Jaeschke ). 
var. vestita, var. nov. 
Whole plant short-pubescent; branchlets pubescent and 
usually pilose; leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
ciliate, pilose above, densely pubescent beneath; corolla 
sparingly hairy without; otherwise, in habit and size of 
foliage like the type. 
Turkestan: Saravshan (Komarov); Bokhara (Lipsky), 
in herb. Petrop. 
51. L. Aspertrotia, Hooker f. & Thomson, Jour. Linn. 
Soc. 2:166 (1858).— Clarke in Hooker, Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 3:11 (1882).— Franchet, Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 
16: 300 (1883). 
L.afinis, “‘Jacquemont mscr.”, Walpers, Rep. Bot. 23449 (1843), 
in herb. Paris!, not Hooker & Arnott. 
Xylosteum asperifolium, Decaisne in Jaquemont, Voy. dans _1’Inde. 
4:77. pl. 85 (1848), 
Xylosteum asperrimum, “ Decne.”, ex Clarke, J.c. $312. 
Caprifolium asperifolium, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 12274 (1891), 
