Tas. 8039. 
FORSYTHIA eEvropaa. 
Albania. 
O.raceEaz.—Tribe SYRINGE. 
Forsytuta, Vahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 675. 
Forsythia europa, Degen et Baldacci in CEsterreich. Bot. Zeit. 1897, p. 406; 
Mitteil. der Deutschen Dendrol. Gesellsch. 1903, p. 113; Gard. Chron, 
1904, vol. ii. p. 123, f. 50; ab F. viridissima foliis crassioribus ovatis infra 
medium latioribus et floribus suberectis differt. 
Frutew erectus, paucipedalis, dense ramosus, cortice brunneo sepius crebre 
lenticellato verrucoso. Folia opposita vel interdum quaterna, petiolata, 
demum subcoriacea, cito glabrescentia, alia innovationum § superiora 
ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, obtusa 2-24 poll. longa, integra, vel rarius 
plus minusve argute serrata, alia inferiora oblonga, deorsum gradatim 
minora. lores ante folia evoluta, e gemma 1-3-ni, flavi, circiter 14 poll. 
diametro ; pedunculi floribus breviores, perulati, perulis imbricatis ovato- 
oblongis persistentibus. Calycis lobi ovati, circiter 2 lin. longi, apiculati, 
ciliolati. Corolle lobi lineares, undulati, emarginati. Stamina 2, corolle 
tubum paullo excedentia. Capsula ovoidea, acuminata, 6-8 lin. longa. 
The discovery of a new species of Forsythia in Europe 
was at first received with some doubts, especially as it is 
not at first sight so obviously different from Ff’. viridissima 
.(B. M. t. 4587) as to be at once recognized as such. It 
was discovered in 1897 by Dr. A. Baldacci, an experienced 
botanist and collector. He states that it forms extensive 
thickets at Simoni and Kalyvaria, in the district of Oroshi. 
In another place he says it is abundant in thickets in a 
great part of the Mirdizia (Miredita, in about 42° N. lat. 
and 20° EH. long.), where it is well known to the in- 
habitants, and bears an Albanian name. We think it is 
specifically different from the Chinese, but several of the 
characters relied upon by the authors are inconstant. For 
instance, under cultivation the leaves are sometimes very 
distinctly toothed. 
As to its being really indigenous in Albania, we see 
no reason to doubt it. Many instances exist of genera 
occupying widely separated areas. The allied genera 
Syringa and Ligustrum are common to the Hast and the 
West, and there is an another of the latter genus in 
Australia. It is true that both genera have less widely 
Separated areas in Hastern Europe and Asia. 
OcroBER lst, 1905. 
