82 85. OLEACEE: JASMINE. 
[Nyctanthes grandiflora, Lour.,— Jasminum arborescens, Roxb., 
a common Indian species, was cultivated in China according to 
Loureiro (Fl. Cochinch. p. 21), but we have no other evidence of 
its existence even in China; and it does not appear to be a native 
of the eastern part of India. ] 
85. OLEACEZE : SYRINGES. 
1. Forsythia suspensa, Vahl, Enum. Pl.i. p. 39; DC. Prodr. 
viii. p. 281 ; Bunge, Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. p. 42 ; Franch. et Savat. 
Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 812; Debeaux, Fl. Tients. p. 29 ; Sieb. et 
Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. p. 10, t. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 4995 ; Darwin, Forms 
of Flowers, 1877, p. 117. 
Syringa suspensa, Shund. FI. Jap. p. 19, t. 3. 
SuawTUNG: Chefoo, rather rare in copses (Hancock ); 
Kansun: Chinkiang (Maries!); Huren: Nanto and mountains 
to the northward (A. Henry, 3939, 4580 !) ; SueNsr and Kansun 
(ex Maximowicz in litt.). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Bunge records this as cultivated at Peking, and Franchet and 
Savatier regarded it as a Chinese introduction in Japan. 
2. Forsythia viridissima, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. i. 
p. 226, ii. p. 157, et in Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 39; Walp. Ann.i. p. 501; 
Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 37 ; Franchet in Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. 
Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 286; Bot. Mag. t. 4587. 
CHEKIANG: mountains in the interior (Fortune, 44 !), Ningpo 
mountains (Faber!); Krawasr: Kiukiang (Maries!); HvPEH: 
Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (4. Henry !); KWEICHAT: 
Shifung, at 6500 feet (Mesney, hb. Hance!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
Kew. 
It is also generally cultivated in China. 
l. Syringa amurensis, Rupr. in Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Sc. 
Pétersb. xv. 1857, p. 371; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 194, Ê. 
pekinensis ; Franchet, Pl. David. p. 205; Franch. et Savat. Enum. 
Pl. Jap. ii. p. 435. 
Syringa pekinensis, Rupr. loc. cit. in nota; Decne. in Nouv. Arch. du 
Mus. 2me série, ii. p. 43, t. 2. 
Ligustrina amurensis, Rupr. in Beitr. Kenntn. Fl. Russl. xi. p. 55, et 
Dec. Pl. Amur. t. 9; Mazim. in Mél. Biol. ix. p. 395 (var. pekinensis). 
Cunt: mountains near Peking (Bretschneider! Bullock). 
