about five feet high. While closely resembling in foliage 
and flowers several other cultivated species, it is very 
distinct in its pendulous inflorescence, a character well 
shown in Mr. Wilson’s excellent photograph. Though 
probably most nearly allied to S. Sargentiana, C. K. 
Schneider, our plant has much in common with S. villosa, 
Vahl, which, however, besides having an erect and much 
broader inflorescence, may be distinguished by its fruits, 
which are. straight and wartless. Nine other species of 
Syringa have been figured in this Magazine including the 
Common Lilac, S. vulgaris, Linn., in 1792 (t. 183), and 
S. persica, Linn., in 1800 (t. 486). The former, the 
* Lylac Mathioli’ and ‘Blew Pipe’ of the old herbalists, . 
is included in the catalogue of Gerard’s garden published 
in 1596. S. persica was in Tradescant’s garden prior to 
1640; according to Parkinson’s Theatrum. In 1876, 
when the part of Bentham and Hooker’s ‘Genera 
Plantarum’ containing the Oleaceae appeared, only 6 
species of the genus Syringa were known. Now there are 
upwards of 30, mostly natives of China, many of which 
have been discovered and introduced into European and 
American gardens since the beginning of the present 
century. 4S. reflexa thrives in rich loamy soil, and can be 
increased by cuttings of leafy shoots put in gentle heat 
towards the end of July. 
Description.—Shrub, up to 15 ft. high; twigs faintly 4-angled, copiously 
lenticellate, green and sparingly shortly pubescent in their first year, grey and 
glabrous by the second season. Leaves petioled, elliptic-oblong, obovate or 
sometimes wide lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, base more or less 
cuneate or occasionally slightly rounded, entire or faintly repand, 23-6 in. 
long, 14-3 in.-wide, distinctly veined, sparingly pilose especially on the main 
nerves beneath, but at length nearly glabrous, dark green above, paler beneath ; 
petiole 1-3 in. long, stout, channelled above. Inflorescence terminal, pendu- 
lous, oblong ovoid or nearly cylindric, dense, nearly 6 in. long, about 12 in. 
wide at the middle, rachis stout, sparingly pilose and closely white lenticellate. 
Flowers fascicled or almost whorled, sometimes borne at the tips of very short 
branchlets; pedicels vs-¢ in. long, pubescent. Calyx cupular, about +5 in. 
long, 5-toothed, sparingly pubescent or glabrate. Corolla pale purplish-red out- 
side, lobes whitish within ; tube narrow fupnel-shaped, over } in. long, ;}; in. 
wide at the base, 1 in. wide at the top; lobes spreading, ovate, 3-1 in. long, 
apiculate and inflexed at the tip. Anthers included, oblong, ;4; in. long. 
Ovary obovoid-globose,. very small, glabrous ; style glabrous, } in. long includ- 
ing the clavate very shortly 2-fid stigma. Fruit cylindric or somewhat 
fusiform, straight or slightly curved, apiculate or blunt, 3-2 in. long, vo-7 in. 
thick, finely warted. 
Tas. 8869.—Fig. 1, flower ; 2, calyx and pistil ; 3, corolla; 4 and 5, anthers ; 
* 6 and 7, fruits :—all enlarged except 6, which is of natural size. 
