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SyYRINGA Josikma. DEEP-FLOWERED 
GERMAN Litac. 
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Class and Order. 
Dianpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Oternex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-dentatus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 4-loba. Caps. 
2-locularis, 2-sperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Syrinea* Josikea; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis ciliatis 
rugosis utrinque glabris supra lucidis subtus albidis. 
Graham. 
Syrinea Josikwa. Jacq. in Bot. Zeit. 1831, p. 67. Reich- 
enb, Pl. Crit. t. 1049. Ejusd. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 
432. Graham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. June, 1833. 
A new species of Lilac, even though less beautiful than 
the two in common cultivation, yet being equally hardy, 
cannot fail to be a most acceptable ornament to our gardens 
and shrubberies. Our valued friend, Dr. Granam, to whom 
we are indebted for the specimen and the drawing here 
given, was not aware of its istary and previous denomina- 
tion when he lately sent it to us under the name of S. Jac- 
quinit. From the Botanische Zeitung for 1831, we learn, 
that at the meeting of Naturalists in Hamburg, in 1830, on 
the sitting of the 20th September, Baron Jacquin exhibited 
dried specimens of this plant from Siebenbiirgen, and _. 
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* From ovpsyé, a pipe, on account of the uses which the Turks make of its 
tubular branches. 
