5. e 4ak. $423, 
SYRINGA JuLiaNAr. 
. 
China. 
OLEACEAE. Tribe SyRINGRAE. 
Syrinea, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. J. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 675. 
Syringa Julianae, C. Schneider in lil. Handb. Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 777, fig. 
488 v-x, et in Kew Bull. 1912, p. 37; affinis S. pubescentis, Turez., sed 
differt foliis ramulorum floriferorum minoribus etiam supra pilosis brevius 
petiolatis, floribus minoribus, antheris paulo sub faucem corollae insertis, 
fructibus ut videtur non verrucosis. 
Frutex ut videtur breve denseque ramosus, ramulis annotinis hornotinisque 
satis pubescentibus deinde glabris nigrescentibus. olia ovato-elliptica, 
utrinque acuta, integerrima, viridia, breve pubescentia, subtus pallidiora, 
distinctius praecipue ad nervos pubescentia, 2°5-4°3 cm. longa, 1-2-3 em. 
lata; petioli 2-5 mm. longi, puberuli. Jnflorescentiae terminales, cymosae, 
parvae, ad 6 cm. longae, ramulis et pedicellis brevissimis subhirsutis, 
flores albo-violacei, 6-7 mm. longi, bracteis linearibus calyce brevioribus 
caducis suffulti. Calyx violaceus, glaber, dentibus satis distinctis, late 
triangularibus acutis. _Antherae violaceae, in sicco nigricantes, paulo sub 
faucem corollae insertae. Fructus maturi ignoti, immaturi ut videtur 
haud vel vix verrucosi.—C, K. ScHNEIDER. 
The interesting Lilac here figured is a Chinese species 
nearly allied to the well-known Syringa pubescens, Turez., a 
two together form the group recognised by Dr. Schneider 
as the Pubescentes, which belongs to the section Vulgares 
as S. vulgaris, Linn., S. oblata, Lindl., S. persica, Linn., and 8S. 
chinensis, Willd. The species now described by Dr. Schneider 
as S. Judianae is one that was raised by Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons in the nursery at Coombe Wood from seeds sent 
from Western China by Mr. E. H. Wilson in 1901. The 
plant which supplied the material for our plate was obtained 
from Messrs. Veitch in 1909 under the name S. villosa. 
Wing to the too curtailed descri ption of S. villosa originally 
provided by Vahl there has been some dubiety as to the 
identity of his plant. An examination of his type specimen 
as, however, established the fact that the plant figured at 
t. 8292 of this work as S. Bretschneideri, Lemoine, is really 
S. villosa, Vahl, and that the Lilac figured at t. 7064 under 
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