Leaves and beautiful sweet-scented flowers. The latter are similar to those of our common English honeysuckle, L. Periclymenum L., from which, however, L. splendida differs greatly in leaf-characters. Both species belong to subsection Eucaprifolia (Spach) Rehd., but L. splendida can easily be distinguished from all other species of this subsection by the combination of very glaucous leaves, upper pairs of leaves on the flowering branches connate at the base, glandular sessile inflorescences with three to five whorls of flowers, and bractlets much shorter than the ovary. L. splendida is a native of the mountains of the provinces of Murcia and Granada in southern Spain, where it grows in thickets, climbing over other plants by means of its twining stems, at altitudes of 1300-1800 metres, flowering from June to August. The species was in cultivation in France by the middle of last century, but it was not recorded from English gardens until 1901 (Nicholson 1.c.). Even to-day it is apparently.

L. affinis Hort. ex Zabel