Tas. 4995. 
FORSYTHIA SUSPENSA. 
Pendulous Forsythia. 
Nat. Ord. OLeacea%.—D1anpr1a Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4587.) 
VoRSYTHIA suspensa ; ramis elongatis laxis pendulis, foliis plerisque trifoliolatis 
serratis, floribus preecocibus, pedunculis elongatis, sepalis lanceolatis pistillo 
multo longioribus. 
Forsytuta suspensa. Vahl, Enum. v.1. p. 39.° Spreng. Syst. eget. v. 1. p. 86. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 281. Siebold et Zuccar. Fl. Jap. p. 10. t. 8. 
SYRINGA suspensa. Thunb. Fl. Japon. p. 19. t. 3. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 49. 
Rengjo. Kempfer, Amen. Exot. p. 907. 
Charming flowering specimens of this rare and handsome 
plant were received in April 1857, from Messrs. Veitch and 
Son, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, which had flourished 
unharmed in the open ground, being equally hardy no doubt 
with the better known Porsythia viridissima, Lindl. (Tab. Nostr. 
4587.) The present is the original species upon which the genus 
was founded, and the Syringa suspensa of Thunberg. From 
Syringa it differs not only in habit, but in the polyspermous 
(not dispermous) capsule. The present species, as we related 
under Forsythia viridissima, was introduced from Japan into 
Europe (Holland) so long ago as 1833, by Mr. Verkerk Pisto- 
rius, but appears only recently to be known in England. Siebold 
assures us that in Japan it is scarcely known but in a state of 
cultivation, and seems there to be derived from China. It is 
said to be easy of increase, “the pendent branches soon striking 
root, if only covered with earth.” It must have a handsome 
effect trained against a wall, and its flowers are larger and hand- 
somer than F. viridissima. 
Descr. A straggling, much branched shruéd, with the dranches 
clothed with a red 4ar/, some of them remarkably elongated and 
drooping. Leaves not appearing till after the flowering is accom- 
JULY lst, 1857. 
