Tas. 7534. 
SYRINGA amurensis. 
Native of North China and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. OLeacrea.—Tribe SyRINGER. 
Genus Syrinaa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 676.) 
Syrinca (Ligustrina) amurensis; arbuscula erecta, glaberrima, ramosa, 
foliosa, cortice rubro-brunnes, foliis breviter petiolatis late ovatis rotun- 
datisve obtuse cuspidatis glaberrimis v. sparse pilosis, supra saturate 
viridibus lucidis, subtus pallidis, nervis utrinqnue ad 6-8 patentibus, 
paniculis magnis subpyramidatis, ramis patulis oppositis, floribus 
numerosissimis in capitula globosa terminalia dispositis breviter 
edicellatis albo-stramineis, calyce campanulato glaberrimo margine 
reviter dentato, corolle tubo brevissimo, lobis ovatis patentibus, fila- 
mentis exsertis, capsulis oblongis obtusis pustulatis, seminibus oblongo- 
lanceolatis ventre excavatis. 
8. (Ligustrina) amurensis, Rupr. in Bull. Phys-Math, Acad. Sc. Petersb. 
vol. xv. (1857) p. 871; in Marim. Prim. Fl. Amur. pp. 198, 474. Carr. 
in Rev. Hortic. (1877) p. 453 (non 1861, p. 353). Decne in Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. Paris, Ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 43. Sargent, Garden § Forest, vol. i. (1888) 
p- 222. 
§. japonica, Dene. l.c. p. 44, t. 3. Sargent in Gard. Chron. (1886) vol. ii. 
p- 560, fig. 123; Gard. & Forest. l.c. & vol. ii. (1889) p. 291, figs. 114, 
115. 
S. ligustrina, Hort. ea C. Koch Dendrol. vol. ii. p. 272. 
S. pekinensis, Rupr.l.c. Decne l.c. p. 431. Sargent in Gard. § Forest. L. c. 
PS. rotundifolia, Dene. J. c. 
Ligustrina amurensis, Rupr. Beitr. Pfl. Russ. Reich. vol. xi. p. 72; Dee. Pl. 
Amur. t.9. Maximov. Mel. Bot. Dec. xix. p. 395, cum var, manchurica, 
pekinensi & japonica. 
Syringa amurensis is a very remarkable plant, which no 
one seeing it in flower would suppose to be a Lilac, or 
anything but a Privet; whereas when in fruit it could 
not be taken for a Privet, or anything but a Lilac. This 
combination of the characters of Lilac and Privet induced 
its first describer, Dr. Ruprecht, to propose the sectional 
name for it of Ligustrina, which he subsequently raised to 
generic rank. It wasintroduced from Japan into America 
by Prof. Sargent, who sent plants to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, from the Arnold Arboretum. His account of its 
introduction is as follows :—‘ In 1876, Mr. W. 8. Clarke, 
President of the Agricultural College at Sapporo, in Japan, 
Mary Isr, 1897. 
