1733 
* SYRÍNGA Josikwa. 
Lady Josika's Lilac. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. OLEACEm. (Introduction to the Natural System of Bo- 
tany, p. 224.) 
SYRINGA. L. Calyx brevê 5-dentatus. Corolla subhypocrateriformis 
limbi partitionibus 4, concavis. Stigma bifidum. Capsula ovato-compressa, 
acuminata, bilocularis, loculicido-bivalvis, dissepimento medio longitudinaliter 
secedente, utrinque in valvula persistente (folliculorum coadunatorum abrica repe- 
tita); semina oblonga, deplana, circumalata. Reichenb. Fl. excurs. p. 432. 
S. Josikea ; foliis ovalibus acuminatis subtus pallidis, floribus subinodoris. 
S. Josikea; Jacq. in Botan. Zeitung. 1831. t. 67. 399. Reichenb. pl. crit. 
viii. 32. No. 1049. t. 780. Fl. Germ. excurs. p. 432. Bot. Mag. 
1. 3278. 
The addition to our gardens of a new species of Lilac, is 
an event of no little importance to all lovers of fine flowers 
and sweet odours. We are therefore happy to lay before 
our readers a figure of a plant which will probably be the 
most beautiful of the genus, on account of the deep colour 
of its blossoms. It is not indeed so fragrant as the Persian 
species, but this will be considered an advantage by those 
who find the delicions fragance of the common Lilac too 
oppressive to be borne except in the open air. 
S. Josikea flowers in the month of May, and resembles 
the old species very much in its general appearance; but its 
leaves are a remarkably dark green, nearly white beneath, 
and its flowers a peculiar deep stone-blue; so that it has 
been compared to a dark-flowered lilac placed on the stem 
of a Tacamahac poplar. 
* A poetical name. Syrinx was an Arcadian nymph, who was changed into 
a reed, from which the first flute was made. This genus 1s easily applied to the 
same purposes ; and the Turks fabricate from its vigorous shoots their finest pipe 
sticks, 
